"Brooklyn, tell us about yourself." Jasmine said with a smile. Her and Anthony arrived at Brooklyn's apartment about 20 minutes ago and she already considered Brooklyn as a close friend. Anthony however, saw Brooklyn as a partner in crime. In the 20 minutes they spent together, as well as the underwear scenario on the stairs, he could tell she was mischievous and couldn't wait to get to know her more.
"Um..." Brooklyn chuckled nervously. It was always a habit of hers when she was the centre of attention. "Well, I'm from East London, today's my first day in New York and I have a passion for musical theatre!" She said, becoming excited at the mention of musical theatre. "Oh awesome, welcome to Brooklyn, Brooklyn!" We all laughed at Jazzy's awful joke "Why'd you move here?" She asked when they stopped laughing. Brooklyn hesitated. Should she tell them? They've only known her for a day.. would she scare them away? Finally she decided to come clean.
"Well about a year ago I got a message from my agent saying I had an audition for Hamilton in New York, and I was so thrilled. I then went to my fiancé's house to share the news with him and he got so angry... and he yelled and swore at me and slapped me across the face." She looked up to see Anthony and Jazzy staring st her with wide eyes, but neither of them said anything as if to encourage her to continue. "I- I don't know why he got so mad, he had never hurt me before so I was so shocked and I ended the engagement and stayed in my dodgy flat for a year until I moved here."She rambled, happy that she finally got it off her chest. Even though she was relieved to come clean, she desperately wanted one of the two to change the subject and luckily, Anthony knew that's what she needed.
"So, hamilton, huh? Who's your favourite character?" He questioned with a reassuring smile on his face. "I love Angelica's personality and I love Eliza's caring nature but my favourite characters overall are easily Burr and Washington, also they have the best solo songs so" they all laughed as a lightbulb went off in Jazzy's head. "Can you sing some of wait for it for us?" Brooklyn looked surprised at her question. Ironically, Brooklyn was a hopeful musical theatre lover with a passion for performing, who also had stage fright and hated performing in front of people. "Oh... ummm" She didn't want to disappoint them, she knew they were the only people her age in the building who weren't drug addicts and who made themselves approachable, and she wouldn't want to risk losing that. She finally decided to just suck it up and sing the song, pretending that they weren't there.
"I am the one thing in life I can't control..." she looked up at them for approval, they both motioned for her to continue. (I cba to write the rest of the lyrics sorry)
After she sang the final note, she opened her right eye to see Jazzy and Anthony's mouth open slightly in shock. "Oh bollox, was it that bad?" She asked. Jazzy burr(😉)st out laughing after that. "What? I love when British people say that!" (A/N she probs doesn't lol but I just wanted to write BURRst) The trio laughed again at her strange humour. "So it wasn't bad?" Brooklynn asked again, unsure of their opinion. "It was amazing! You have to audition." Anthony said happily. At those words, Jazzy began acting strange "Oh god look at the time! Ant we have work tomorrow let's go, bye Brooklyn! It was nice meeting you!" She hurried Anthony out of the house and shut the door behind her before Brooklyn could reply.
She slouched on her sofa wondering what she did wrong before she fell asleep, with the Wicked soundtrack playing quietly in the background.
What she didn't know, was that Jazzy had filmed Brooklyn singing and sent it to the Hamilton group chat as soon as she got inside her apartment, hoping that she could get her an audition. To her luck, Lin told her to bring Brooklyn to the theatre tomorrow and Jazzy couldn't contain her excitement for her new friend. Maybe Brooklyn will make it with her and Anthony in New York...
