Behind the Curtain | Wilbur x Reader (Platonic)

Act 2, Scene 4

"And I'll sing once more." The Hills Are Alive, The Sound of Music

A/n: Please note that I do not know how procedures to auditions for Broadway musicals work and am purely making it up as I go. Also, last chapter before I disappear for a while–

Auditions for Behind The Curtain take place Sunday XX, 20XX. Lead roles...

You stared at the email that one of your backstage crew friends forwarded to you. Your heart thumped in your chest. Should you audition? Or not? If you auditioned you knew you were bound to be forgotten again.

"Oh, you should try out U/— Y/n." Wilbur said from behind you. You were currently staying over at his place and was sitting on his couch. He had come up from behind and read over your shoulder. He was still getting used to calling you by your real name after you had told him.

"I don't know." You mumbled, still working up your confidence around him. Most of the time you could act natural, but there were times you went back to being anti-social.

"Well, you'll never know if you don't try."

"..."

— — — — — — — —

"Tommy-"

"You can wear a mask! And sunglasses! They'd never know!" Tommy was trying to convince you. In the video where he met you, he cut the video off just before anyone could actually hear or see you.

"You know I never really confirmed my gender with my viewers."

"Then we'll put in some kind of shape or something to block you. Pleasee?"

"And when I speak?"

"We'll mute the sound and put captions instead, just please be in my video!"

"C'mon please Y/n? For your best friend??" Wilbur added.

"Yeah Y/n, for me?" Tommy pouted, and Wilbur snickered.

"I was talking about me Tommy but okay."

"F*ck you, I'm Y/n's best friend."

You sighed at their bickering before giving them a slight smile, "Okay."

— — — — — — — —

"And last but not least, our hardest judge to get a laugh out of is... U/n! If they laugh it counts as 3 points instead of 1."

In Tommy's video, he gathered a bunch of his friends to make a few judges laugh. Wilbur wanted to make people laugh so he passed on being a judge. Ranboo, who you finally met, was one of your fellow judges. And Tommy was the other judge.

Lots of people tried to make you laugh, your fellow judges spitting/swallowing the water in their mouths beside you, dying from laughter, but the best you gave was a grin at a joke you found particularly funny.

In the end, Ranboo and Tommy joined the opposite side in attempts to get you to laugh, inappropriate jokes, funny references, different odd and wacky bits, nothing was working.

Wilbur silently observed as Tommy tried again to make you laugh, an idea suddenly coming to mind.

"Tommy, Tommy quick come here. Everyone come here. Grab a hat. Yeah- Haha- put that dress on, yes. Quick."

That was all you heard coming from behind the curtain that hid everyone from the judges so that they could prepare their bits and bring their props with surprise.

"EHEM- THEY SNEAK INTO THE CITY JUST TO WATCH ALL THE GUYS AT-

"WORK WORK!"

"AnGeLiCA!!" Slimecicle came out wearing a pink dress and you almost spat the water out.