Making It Up As We Go Along

3. Meeting Lizzie and Disbelief

Nellie's POV
I couldn't believe where I was. I was at the concert of my favorite band, watching the husband of my favorite actress perform onstage. While, at the same time, my favorite actress was three rows in front of me. It was weird, ever since March, after the finale of WandaVision, I had gotten really obsessed with Lizzie and Robbie. Now, seeing them both in front of me, it was so surreal.

I smiled brightly whenever Robbie looked in my direction and nudged Shayla with my shoulder.

"Shayla, that's Lizzie. Right in front of us." I said, motioning to where Elizabeth was. Shayla looked at me like I was crazy but I assured her that it was actually Lizzie.

"After the concert we need to go up and talk to her." Shayla said to me and I nodded. I watched as Milo Greene performed my favorite song, 1957, and then my second favorite, Young At Heart.

As soon as the concert finishes, the three of us rush to the front to try and meet Lizzie. However, by the time we get up there she's gone. I sigh and we turn around and go back to the lobby of the theatre.

When we get to the lobby, we saw that the band was doing a free meet and greet and we decide to go meet them and talk to Robbie. We start to get in the line and I see Robbie sprint over towards us. I immediately freeze as I don't know why he's running so rapidly towards us. I run through everything I've done today in my head, trying to figure out if I had upset him in anyway.

"Hey, do you guys wanna come meet Lizzie? I love your Wanda and Agatha looks." Robbie said, looking at the three of us. "Oh my gosh, yes please!" I exclaim. Robbie lets out a light laugh and motions for us to follow him. He takes us backstage and makes us wait for a minute while he goes to talk to Elizabeth.

"Oh my gosh, hi guys!" I hear Elizabeth exclaim as she walks out with Robbie and comes towards us. I immediately run towards her and hug her, causing her to smile at me.

"Aww." Elizabeth says. I hear her laugh lightly and I start crying. "I love you so much."  Lizzie hugs me and I let my friends have a turn before I make a complete fool of myself in front of Elizabeth Olsen and Robbie Arnett.

"Wait are those WandaVision earrings?" Lizzie asked me, looking at my earrings. "Y-yes Shayla made them for my sweet sixteen." I point to Shayla so that Lizzie knows she made them and she turns back to me. "That's so cool! I love them!" I smile, nodding. Suddenly, I get a call and I excuse myself for a second.

I answer and as soon as the lady told me what happened, I started bawling. I couldn't believe this could be happening to me. I couldn't believe I was an orphan now.

"Sweetie what's wrong?" Elizabeth asked, coming over and holding me. "M-my entire f-family was at the family reunion in K-Kentucky and t-there was a bomb that went off and now they're all dead. N-now I have to go back to Florida all alone and I-I don't want to." Elizabeth holds me in her arms and I cry into her, soaking the top half of her dress with my tears.

"Do you know any other relatives that you could stay with?" Elizabeth asked me, looking me in the eyes. I shake my head. "I-I'm adopted. I don't know anyone else in my family besides all the people who just died." Lizzie rubs my back and rubs her fingers through my hair.

"Shh. It's okay, you can stay with Robbie and I for the time being. We can help you okay?" I thank her and nod, then I go over and hug Shayla while I hear Elizabeth and Robbie talk in the background.

R: "Lizzie, we don't even know where she's from and what her name is."
E: "I know babe, I just wanna help her, you know?"
R: "Are you sure? I just don't want this to be another Ingrid situation."
E: "I'm sure Robbie. Plus I feel kind of connected to her in someway, and not just because she's dressed as Wanda."
R: "Okay. I trust your judgement Elizabeth."

Robbie and Elizabeth have us go with Shayla's mom to go pick up all my stuff from the hotel while they finish what they need to do. I hug Shayla and Chloe and tell them goodbye as Shayla's mom turns to me.

"I'm so sorry this happened to you Nellie, if you ever need anything just reach out to Shayla." I nod and hug her. Then I wait with her downstairs for Elizabeth to get there. Finally after 20 minutes, Lizzie got there.

"Hi! So sorry I'm late, I stopped to pick up dinner for us." Lizzie said. I nodded and said goodbye to Shayla's mom. When I got into the car, Robbie said hi to me and I fell asleep to the sound of the two of them singing along to the blink 182 song on the radio.