Love On Broadway

Chapter 8: Emma

"What the hell is that?" I exclaimed as Lin held up the puffed-up pad in front of me.

"You put it up you dress to make you look pregnant." The music from "Wait for It" was heard softly from where we stood.

"Um...okay give it to me. I have to change dresses anyway. Go so you're not late again." Remembering when Lin was almost late earlier in the play. I looked at the pad again and went back to my dressing room. A stage member there helped me get the pad on and a looser dress and started to lace it up. She fixed my hair again then sent me off. I waited in the wings, during "Meet Me Inside " I wrung my hands and ran through my lines. As soon was Christopher Jackson walked off the stage and stepped out.

"Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now."  I sang and set my hands on my stomach. Lin rushed over to me and touch my stomach.

"How long have you've known?"  Lin sang to me.

"A Month or so,"

"Eliza, you should've told me.."

"I wrote to the general a month ago, I've begged him to send you home."  I took his hands in mine. 

Lin kept his eyes on the ground. "You should've told me."

"I'm not sorry." I replied back. " I knew you'd fight until the war was won-"

"The war's not done."

"But you deserve a chance to meet your son."  I continued. "Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now."

Lin finally looked at me. "Would you relish being a poor man's wife... unable to provide for your life?"

I set my hands on Lin's shoulders. "I relish being your wife."  I squeezed his shoulders and let go. He sat down on a bench. "Look around, look at where you are, look at where we started, that fact that your alive is a miracle, just stay alive, that would be enough."  I walked around and stood behind and placed knotted my fingers through his dark hair. "And if this child, share a fraction of you smile, or a fragment of your mine, look out world, that would be enough."  I looked out at the lightning box, where they was a small tiny lava lamp for the actors to look at. That's where I looked. I sat down next to Lin and continued singing. "I don't pretend to know, the challenges your facing, the worlds you keep erasing and creating in your mind."  I laced our fingers together. "But I'm not afraid, I know who I married, so long as you come home at the end of the day, that would be enough."  I looked away from Lin and back to the lava lamp. "We don't need a legacy, we don't need money, if you let me inside your heart, or let me be a part of the narrative, of the story that will write someday, let this moment be the first chapter, when you decide to stay. And that would be enough."  I looked at Lin one more time. "And we could be enough, that would be enough." 

Lin put his hand on my stomach and bent over and kissed my hand then the stage went dark. We hopped off the bench and got off the stage. Lin patted me on the back. "You did great, Emma."

"Thanks you too." I said as he walked away.

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"Non-stop"  was a blast and went smoothly. Then intermission came and I was so grateful. I sat down in my dressing room and check my phone. I nearly spit out my water at what I saw. I had over three hundred more twitter followers. How was that possible? I ran out of my dressing room and found Lin.  "Look at this." I showed Lin my phone. He smiled and laughed.

"Oh that, I posted and said that you were filling in for Pippa. Isn't it great?"

"It's amazing."

A stage member came in and told us that it was two minute call. I looked at Lin. "I'll see you out there." He said bye and I left to change my dress.

Hey guys so I'm gonna skip over the second act and go to the part with Teresa and the bridal shop.

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~Emma