The Stalker

Chapter 11

Peta and Val had left the room, everybody had to pack their bags for the upcoming days on the road. Sharna’s phone rang again, but when she saw it was an anonymous caller, she decided to not answer. She didn’t want to have another phone call with no one on the other line.

Sharna continued packing and eventually her phone died. When she was ready she got her back downstairs to the buses. When she had put her suitcase in the bus she followed the others to the theatre they would be performing in tonight. After the show they would have to get in right away and drive towards another city.

Val and Sharna had talked about when they would tell the others, first they wanted to do this on the bus. But there were two buses, so they would miss half of the cast. Another idea was to tell them in the dressing room before the show. Sharna would tell the girls and Val would tell the buys.

The girls dressing room was always very loud. Everybody was chatting, singing and dancing around. And in between they would do their hair and make-up. Sharna had finished her make-up and hair and was waiting for a quiet moment to tell about her and Val.

And all of a sudden that moment came, the girls had finished their story at the same time and Sharna interrupted before anyone could talk again.
“I have something to tell you.” As expected everybody turned their heads towards Sharna and several people asked.

“What’s is going on?”
“Is everything alright?”
“Are you alright?”
“There is nothing wrong, I’m have some good news to tell you,” Sharna took a deep breath before she continued.

“Val and I are dating.”
On the faces of her friends she saw smiles forming. Emma was the first to run towards her and engulf her in a big hug.
“Are you serious?” She asked. Sharna nodded her head. The rest of the girls followed and all six girls stood together for a couple of minutes, before letting go of Sharna.

“So how did all of this happen?”
“We have been flirting for a while now.”
“Yes, we noticed,” Jenna said. The girls started laughing again and Sharna continued.
“Well, all the flirting was really nice, but then he asked me out on a date.”

“Were did you go?”
“What happened?” The girls started asking questions before Sharna even had the chance to continue her story.
“I will tell you all, if you let me speak. He asked me out and took me to a salsa club and that is where we kissed.”

The girls started to squeal, but nobody interrupted.
“And we talked about it and we are going to try being together, but we are going to take it slow. If it doesn’t work out, we don’t it to ruin our friendship.” Sharna took a deep breath, indicating she had finished her story.

“But you are together now?” Emma asked.
“Well, I don’t know actually. We are going to take it slow, but with each other. So maybe you could say that we are together now.”
“That was all I wanted to hear.”

Everybody started to congratulate Sharna once again.
“I have one more question,” Lindsay asked. “Are you going to tell the fans? Or is this something to stay within this room?”
“For now the latter one, when we know what we want, we could tell the rest of the world. But for now, it is something we want to find out.”

When everybody was ready with congratulating and hugging Sharna, they got back to getting ready for the show. A couple of minutes later the boys got into the girls dressing room, running and jumping in as usual.

But this time they all ran towards Sharna. They all hugged her and for a moment Sharna couldn’t breathe. But when they finally let her go, she saw the faces of her best friends. All happy for her.

“Congratulations Sharna!”
“Val, finally found someone worth keeping.” The boys all laughed and everybody left to get to the stage and do their warm-up before the show. Val put his hand in Sharna’s hand and slightly pulled it, making her wait for him. The rest of the cast was on their way, but they were still in the dressing room.

“So I figure they took it well?” Val asked. He gave her a kiss on her head and put his arm around her, when they slowly started to walk out. Sharna let him pull her close to his body.
“Yes, they took it well. The hardest part for me was to get them quiet enough to talk about it.”
“Yes, you girls can’t keep quiet for a second.”
Sharna playfully slapped Val on this stomach. In response Val started to tickle Sharna, she started to laugh.

“Please… stop…. Please,” she said while laughing. Sharna fell to the ground and Val continued to tickle her and got on top of her.

“Hey you two, lovebirds. Some people are working here.” Peta walked over to them and Sharna looked up from the ground to her best friend. Val was still on top of her and she couldn’t move. Sharna gave Peta a smile and tried to push Val off, but he wouldn’t.

“Hey Val, you might be my future brother-in-law, but my sister will always come first.”

She pushed Val to the ground and helped Sharna to her feet. Together the two girls went to the stage.