Broadway dad

Yay! Your being adopted... but by who?

It was a nice day in New York, people outside of coffee shops, people in line for rush tickets near every theater, everything was the same since the day I arrived at the adoption center. Yup, I've been here since I was 7.. Since I've grown no one has even looked my way, but that's not a problem anymore since I've made new friends! There's Natalia, she taught me how to play the ukulele, and Ayden, we talk about our weird dreams every night. One thing that we all have in common is that we all love musical theater and Alex Brightman. All-day we would talk about musicals during the Broadway season, our favorite is the School of Rock.

Hey I'm Caitlyn. I don't remember my original last name, so the adoption center gave me the last name of Minney. I'm 14, single, brown hair, brown eyes, 5'5. There not much to me but good news came later.

"Hey, kids! We are all going to see a musical but some of you will go to different ones ok?" -Guardian no. 1

"Yay!!!"- Kids

"I hope we get to see School of Rock! I want to meet Alex!"-Natalia

"Agreed," -Ayden and I said in sync. We look at each other and giggle at our reactions.

"Ok, so the musicals we are seeing are... Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, and... School of Rock! We have already assigned groups. (names all the groups and Natalia, Ayden and I have been selected to go to school of rock I'm lazy ok)

"Wait, will we be able to do the stage door??" I asked.

"Yes, we will allow the stage door for a few minutes, so enough time to get signatures and pictures." - Guardian no. 2

So let me tell you of why I'm here in the adoption center, well I was abused and nearly drugged by by my own mother, and I never meet my dad. My mom said he had a career that left her alone and never came back because he was "too busy". Every year on my birthday I would get a postcard from my dad but it would only say "Happy birthday kid. Love ya -Dad". After mom was fed up with this she drank and did drugs, that's where the abuse comes in. The CPS came in time to my mother abusing me till I was unconscious and had a needle in hand. I knew I was safe but I still have PTSD from it every now and then and I would break down and curl up in a ball and yell stop. (this is important for later!)

Later at the theater

"I'm so excited!" I say in glee.

"I've seen so many clips of it and it looks amazing!"-Ayden

Before we entered the three of us got a picture in front of the Winter Garden with the marquee in the background. During intermission, the three of us geek out on how cute Alex is and say who our favorite kid actor is. I said Dante, the kid who plays Freddy, and I said that he's talented and I started to blush, but luckily my friends can't see me because the show just had its 5-minute call. I nearly started crying during 'Where did the Rock go' and I realized that I'm free and under no one's control anymore. When everyone bowed, Alex looked at me and tilted his head, I mocked him and made him smile. He waved at me and I smiled. My friends got a little jealous but he waved at them later so they weren't as jealous as before. While walking to the stage door the three of us geeked over Alex and talked everything about the show. I had my Playbill ready for everyone to sign and I talked to Dante for a bit like MY BROADWAY CRUSH TALKED TO ME!! Then Alex finally came out and went straight to me.

"Hey!"-Alex

"I-I-I... Um hi! This is my first Broadway show and I really enjoyed it! And I know what you are going to say and your welcome. You didn't ruin it for me!"

"Someone watches the vlogs, I'm impressed you remember me saying that! And I'm glad this was your first and you enjoyed it! Do you mind if I talked to your Parent/Guardian for a bit after I'm done?"

"I don't think she'll mind!"

I ran over to my guardian and told her about Alex wanting to talk to her and I ran off, I couldn't hear what they're saying because I was too busy gushing over Alex.

"Hi I'm Cait's guardian from the adoption center just around the block, was she rude she rambles on about this one coffee shop and theater." -guard 1

"No, she was sweet and I'm sure she's my daughter but I would like to adopt her."

"Oh! Perfect can you stop by tomorrow to fill out the papers."

"Absolutely, tomorrow's my off day so I'll be there around noon if that's ok?"

"Ok, see you tomorrow sir."

The Next Day

I couldn't sleep last night because I was so excited but somehow I did and I was woke up to good and bad news.

"Cait pack your things you are being adopted!"-guard 2

I was happy that I'm finally out of the adoption center but sad that I had to leave my friends behind.

Hey guys I hope you enjoyed this first little introduction to the story! Sorry that it's short I didn't want to make a long intro but I promise that the next one will be longer! I enjoyed writing it, please tell me on what I can approve on, I'm a new writer in the business and I'm excited to share more of what I have in store for you!

-Cait xx