Bea's To Do List #21: Get everyone home by 8
"How's it going?"
"What do you mean?"
"With your job? How's it going?"
"I think that... it's going pretty well. Really well actually."
"That's great!"
"Sometimes they're frustratingly slow-"
"More like all the time."
"But I like it anyway."
"I'm really glad. I know that you didn't want to be here at first so I'm glad you came around."
"Me too. It would have been a lot harder if I hadn't."
"It would have been awful for everyone involved."
"It's because of you, you know."
"Me?"
"I like it here because of you."
"What do you mean?"
"Um... I'm not sure what I mean."
"Come on, you must have known if you said it."
"Bea, I think you're losing it because I didn't mean anything."
"And I think you're lying to me."
"I'm not lying! What I meant was, uh-"
"Uh?"
"That it's because of the environment you've created here for everyone. That's what I meant."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I am very sure."
"Okay... I'm going to go over here now."
"See you later."
"See you later."
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The Stage Manager
Short StoryBeatrice "Bea" Masters has been her theater department's wonderkid ever since she became the stage manager when she was just a freshman. But after the fiasco that was last year's musical (which was not her fault), Bea has been dying for redemption...