Just for a Moment

101 | All I Want

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The day was rather bittersweet; all the episodes were finished. The only thing now was to go back and redo any scenes that needed it.

It has been a few days since the climactic finale was shot, and everyone was on pins and needles waiting to see what would happen next. The cast was hoping that the leads would have pulled their heads out of their asses by now and something would have started, but that wish had yet to be granted.

The pair has been walking around on eggshells around each other, the conversations short and awkward; they were both waiting for the other to address what had happened, neither wanting to be the one to do something first.

Outside of the stress that was that scene, this was the final time Olivia would be able to make any changes to her song; she was scheduled to film that scene tomorrow, which meant that the song either needed to be complete today for there to be proper time to add it in or she would be forced to turn in the previous draft, which she wanted to avoid.

She had once again lost some sleep though while working on her latest version, and she wasn't sure it was even worth it. Because the deadline was coming so close, Olivia had sent the file to her mom as well for another opinion. While she knew she most likely wouldn't receive any constructive criticism for it, the confidence boost from positive feedback was also appreciated.

She was the first one in the lobby, probably because of getting little sleep and stressing over the song. She put headphones in and listened to what she had made last night; she was slowly growing very tired of hearing her own voice though.

She faintly heard the elevator door open but was still focused on what she was listening to, making a list of what all she thought needed to be tweaked: wait, that sounded weird; that note might need to be changed; that line wasn't long enough; my voice sounds strange there. Her list gradually grew the more times she listened to it.

A voice knocks her out of her concentration. "Hey." Olivia looks up, seeing Joshua standing in front of her.

"Oh, uh, hey," she said, taking an earbud out.

He was a little nervous about this without really knowing why. "Hey." Not wanting to stand in awkward silence until someone else came down, he added, "What are you listening to?"

"Oh, um..." Olivia glanced down at her phone, quickly exiting her voice memos. She realized she was taking too long to think of a song or album name since music always appeared on the lock screen, and it takes no time at all to read song titles. She looked back up and to his eyes and nearly melted into the most cliché movie puddle. "I, uh... It's just my song," she answered sheepishly, now focusing on the pattern of the lobby carpet.

"Oh, is it done yet?"

"Well, I mean... yes... in a sense. I just... I don't know how to feel about it." She took a moment to think about what she was going to say next. "D- Do you want to hear it?"

Olivia slightly regretted asking the second the sentence fell from her lips; she didn't know how to get out of this situation. Sure, she showed him her first draft from when she had the mentality of a zombie, but that was when she still had time to make corrections. Now, if this was it, only one question stood out among the rest: what if he hates it?

"Liv? Liv, you there?" She must have been taking a long time to think. "Are you sure you want me to hear it?"

"Yeah, it's fine." She reopened the voice memos and made sure to start the recording over. "Here," she said, handing everything over. "Just press play when you're ready."