broadway bound

sixteen

                                
October

   
     Incase you haven't realized, Derek is a dork. An absolute dork. Here we are sitting in Chipotle, I'm trying to enjoy my burrito and all Derek was trying to do was see if he could flip food from his fork into his mouth.

"Is that seriously the only reason you got a bowl?" I asked.

He nodded.

"Elycia doesn't like when I goof off. Since she's working I saw a chance and I took it."

"She's not the only one" I said shaking my head in disapproval.

"Oh come on, you love it when I'm goofy"

"We are in public Derek. People are staring"

"Ah, let 'em stare" He said stretching out his arms.

Sometimes I felt like I was the adult in the situation and Derek was the kid. That's what I love about him though. He's always this goofy around me. I don't think I'd prefer him any other way.

I looked at my phone. It was almost two.

"Shoot" I said

"Careful, that was almost a swear word" Derek said mocking me.

"Okay, Captain America." I said rolling my eyes. "I've got to go, I'm going to be late for rehearsal"

"What else is new?" Derek laughed.

I threw my foil that my burrito was wrapped in before I ate it. "That means let's go. I'm not losing my job" I snapped

"Yes ma'am" Derek sassed getting up. I gave them the death stare and he shut up.

Today we're finishing up the last of our blocking. So not everyone in the cast was called. Only the principle roles were.

"About time you showed up" Seth said jokingly as I walked in.

"Let's just say, Derek doesn't like to be on time unless he has to be here" I joked and we both laughed.

I hadn't told anyone about my feelings for Seth.  Having a crush on your costar is just so unprofessional and immature, right? Besides, he made it clear in the interview he didn't like me like that. That's a good thing. We should be focusing on Les Miserables, not our love life.

"Perfect you're both here" Aaron said walking over to the two of us. "I want to start working on your death scene"

"Yay we get to watch Hadley die!" Jeremy teased.

"Shut up Jer" I said

"Yeah, that's my daughter!" Christian said "Only I get to treat her terribly!"

I couldn't help but laugh when he said that. Everyone else did too. We got into places for the top of 'A Little Fall of Rain'. Seth was on his knees, holding me in his arms while I sang. We started the song.

*****

"Hold" Aaron said while we were in the middle of the song. "When she say 'and you will keep me close' I want you to pull her even closer to you"

Seth nodded. The music resumed.

"And you will keep me safe" I sang "and you will keep me close"

Seth pulled me in tighter. I could hear his heart beating. I looked up to him lovingly and I could see tears filing into his eyes. Someone give this man a tony. His acting was always perfect.

"And rain will make the flowers grow"

Aaron kept encouraging us to get closer and to look at each other more lovingly. Which we did of course. Then we reached the end of the song.