The Lost Girl

Chapter 2: Quinn

Ben Fankhauser's POV

We were rehearsing for our show, Newsies, when I spotted a girl by the doors of the theatre. I paused and everyone else did too. Tommy and I jumped off the stage and went up to her. She was terrified of us. Tommy and I got into my dressing room and tried to talk to her. When she didn't respond I gave her a pad of paper and a pen. She wrote down her answers and that's how we could talk to her. Then we took her out to meet the rest of the cast. She hid behind me the whole time. After she met Andrew, Jeremy, and Kara, she watched the rest of the rehearsal. We just picked up where we had left off, which was the finale. She sat there for the five minutes it took to do it. When we were done we brought her back to my dressing room. We were trying to figure out a name for her. Andrew named her Quinn. Then we decided to get some food.
We went out for food and Quinn seemed to be handling the crowds of New York quite well, which is good. She stayed right by my side the whole time. It made me feel like I was an older brother to her.
"We should call social services." Kara told me on our way back the theatre.
"Why?" I asked.
"Quinn. She's lost and they might be able to help her," Kara responded. I stopped dead in my tracks. Quinn had been walking next to Andrew and she took notice of my pause. She looked back at me.
"There's no way we're going to let them take her. If we do get social services involved, it's to keep Quinn," I said after a minute. I started walking again and caught up with the group.
When we got back to the theatre, we had to figure out where Quinn could sleep. She almost fell asleep against me, but I needed to be on stage. I left her in my dressing room lying across the chairs in there.
I went to check in on her during intermission. She was asleep.
"How is she?" Andrew asked me from behind.
"She's sleeping," I replied. I moved and let Andrew look.
"Awe, I feel like a parent," he said. I laughed a little.
"Guys, intermission is almost over. We gotta get back on stage," Jeremy said. Andrew and I followed Jeremy back to the stage.
After the whole show was done, Andrew and I went to go see Quinn and take a long nap. She was still asleep across the chairs when we got in. As soon as I started to change out of my costume, she woke up. Luckily I had only gotten my vest off.
"What are you doing?" She asked. I turned around.
"Changing out of my costume. I'll go do it somewhere else," I said. I grabbed my normal clothes and went to find another place to change.

Quinn's POV

I woke up to see Ben and Andrew back from performing. Ben noticed I was awake and he left to go get changed. Andrew took me to Kara's dressing room so he could get changed in his own dressing room.
"Hey, Quinn," Kara said when she was done changing.
"Hi," I said. I still had a really quiet voice, so she might not have heard me. I sat down on the couch in her dressing room.
"Do you know who you're going home with?" Kara asked. I shook my head. Then Ben came in.
"Come on, Quinn. I don't wanna leave you here," He said. I got up and followed him. We left the theatre and walked to his apartment.
Once there, he found something for me to eat.
"Do you want to sleep on the couch?" He asked.
"I don't care," I said.
"What?"
"I said I don't care," I repeated myself a little louder than I originally said it. Ben nodded and handed me a plate with some food on it.
"Its okay to eat. Go on. You need the food," Ben said. "I'm going to go find some blankets and pillows for you."
Ben left the room and I sat down at the table.