Non-Stop || Lin-Manuel Miranda

Chapter 2

My mom couldn't make it to the show with Stephen Colbert tonight; she was seeing The Color Purple on Broadway with a few friends from college that she hadn't seen in quite some time. That left me and David to decide on a few outfits that would be okay to wear on the show tonight.

"Ugh!" I yelled in frustration, "David, I have absolutely nothing to bring to the show."

He snickered at me, "Sweet thing, you have like five dresses, three pairs of dress pants and like seven tops that would look good."

"But none of them are good enough. David I want to look like I belong."

He looked over the dresses and grabbed three of them, "As a gay man you can take what I am saying to you with full truth. These will look banging on you love." He said as he handed me a tighter red dress, a looser fitting black dress and a tight sequin lined golden cocktail dress.

I grinned at him, "Again, thank you David. Now for shoes..."

He groaned and started going through the piles of shoes that I brought with me and bought in New York.

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"Hi, yes this is Lena Hamilton." David said as he motioned towards me to the man who was working at the side of the theatre. The man nodded and let us inside. A bubbly woman who led me to my dressing room for the night greeted us.

"Lena and you must be David," She smiled at the both of us as we nodded, "Welcome! My name is Cassidy and I'll be assisting you tonight. This is your room for the night. Are these your outfits?" She pointed at David who was holding a few hangers.

"Oh yeah! I brought three dresses and a few pairs of shoes..."

"Amazing! Nobody ever comes that prepared," She smiled at me, "I'll take those with me." She grabbed everything from David and I, "Okay. I'm going to steal Lena from you David, we need to start hair and makeup."

David nodded and gave me a wink as Cassidy hurriedly ushered me out of the room.

"So Lena," She looked over at me as we were walking towards hair and makeup, "Have you ever been on a show like this?"

I shook my head, "No I haven't." I gulped.

"Don't look so nervous! Stephen is amazing with guests. Relax Lena!" She pulled me into a room where a couple of women and man were sitting there talking rapid fire at her.

"You must be Lena!" One of the women clapped and came over to me and started messing with my hair, "Oh darling your hair is perfect!"

I laughed awkwardly, "Thanks. I don't really do much with it." I admitted.

"Beautiful nonetheless." She smiled and ushered me over to her chair.

"Okay! Lena I'll leave you here with the experts. Stephen will be by shortly; he's running through some dress rehearsals now. Lin will be here soon too; he doesn't have to through as much as you do. Okay bye." She smiled at me, looked at her clipboard and walked away quickly.

The lady before started messing with my long brunette hair, "My name is Ellie by the way. I'm going to be doing your hair tonight. Millie and Sasha are our makeup artists and those two Jacob and Emily are our stylists, they'll be fixing up your outfit! I know this is so much to take in all at once. But you'll be just fine."