31_days | [10-May-2007] [Azumanga Daioh] Misunderstudied

Title: Misunderstudied
Challenge: 10-May-2007 "the understudy"
Based on: Azumanga Daioh
Characters: (several)
Type: Humor; 100 words
Warnings: Gratuitous pun.

Azumanga Daioh © Kiyohiko Azuma / Mediaworks / Azumanga Daioh Committee / ADV Films.

The other girls noticed that a worried Tomo was studying a small book with an unusually intent expression.

"What's up with her?" Kagura asked.

"She agreed to stand in for the lead actress in the school play, in case the lead got sick," Yomi said. "Of course, she didn't bother to learn her lines, and now the lead is sick— nothing serious, thank goodness. But the play starts tomorrow."

"In other words," Osaka declared, "Tomo understudied to be an understudy."

"Wow," said Chiyo. "That was pretty good, Miss Osaka."

Yomi agreed. "It's a role that Tomo was born to play."