A New Musical

21

Mason Pierce & Asher Rowan to return in 'Walk In My Rainbow Shoes', set to hit Broadway in 2026.

News broke not even a day after I sent my email that I would be returning for the Broadway run of Walk In My Rainbow Shoes. All Meg had sent back was "Done." I still wonder how they were able to decide what to do about Mason's pay for the show. I try not to let that be my main concern, because that's not for me to worry about, and I leave it for the professionals to deal with.

[Abby The Queen]

WHAT?

HUH?

WHEN THE FUCK DID THIS HAPPEN?

ASHER ROWAN YOU BETTER FUCKING ANSWER.

I may have forgotten to tell people that I accepted to return to the show. Once I sent the email, I went home and just hung out with Milo. I turned my phone off for once, because I noticed one of the biggest stresses these last few months is seeing what people have to say. It eats at me, and makes me start to believe that all that matters is how people see me. Which I guess is how Mason must feel during all this. Well not just this whole drama, but in general. He has fans who will go to the ends of the earth to see him in person, know every fact about him, or see every movie he's in even if it's for 5 seconds.

I don't really know how to respond to Abby's text, so I beat her to the punch by calling. "Hey bestie..."I'm hesitant on the phone, preparing myself.

"Asher rowan, you better have a damn good reason as to why I found out from the news first. And not from you!" She yells.

"Uh... well. I met with Mason yesterday."

"You what?!"

"I said I-"

"I know what you said!" She yells on the other end of the phone. "And you didn't tell me?!"

I roll my eyes, "I figured that I spend too much time looking for people's approval in my personal life. So I decided to keep it to myself for the time being. As for last night, after I was done talking to Mason. I turned my phone off." I say.

I hear Abby sigh. "Just say you two fucked."

"We did not!" I yelp.

"You don't turn your phone off for anything Asher."

"Well, maybe I finally did something healthy for once." I respond.

"Oh okay." Abby pauses. "Who kidnapped my best friend? Oh my god, is Milo okay? Please say Milo is okay!"

I scoff "I can't believe you don't have enough faith in me that I can do something good for myself."

"Oh please," She laughs. "I just can't believe you talked to Mason. You were so against it before."

"To be perfectly honest, I can't either. It was kind of a spontaneous choice."

I tell Abby about what went down with Mason, and what led me to decide to even do the show again. I said how that was also an unexpected choice. "I ended up walking out and just sending the email, no thought to it. I just knew that after I talked to Mason, I thought I could handle it."

"Do you?" Abby questions.

"I would like to think so, I know it'll take time for me to rebuild that trust with him. But I want to believe he's truly sorry, and for now I only wanna focus on rebuilding a friendship and doing the show I love."

"I mean lets be real, you guys didn't exactly get to build a friendship the last time. Hopefully this time around you actually will get too. Maybe it's better to let that be your focus."