Audrey left a little while after that, she was seeing the show tonight, and was a little more than ecstatic. I was walking back upstairs with Rory.

"I need to see the show again." I said, absentmindedly.

"Yes you do." He said smiling, "how many times have you seen it?" He asked.

"Only twice. I know that sounds crappy, most people haven't seen it at all, but come on, mi abuelo has seen it 16 times."

"Wow. Well then." Rory laughed a little, "I'm sure if you just asked your dad he'll get you tickets. He's the kind of dad that likes to spoil their kids."

"Yeah, he's already spoiled me." I rolled my eyes a little. "iPhone, I don't even have to pay for service, nice watch, they buy all my clothes, took me to see Waitress, don't worry he's most definitely spoiling me."

"I want a kid to spoil." Rory whined, "maybe I can talk Gerold into having small ones."

"Small ones are the best." I smiled.

"Until Gerold agrees to adopt a small adorable baby child, I'm spoiling you, and until small adorable baby child reaches a spoil-able age."

"Are you going to name it 'small adorable baby child'?" I asked.

"Of course, I'm sure G would be all for that." He smiled, and opened the door to his dressing room.

"Mijaaaaaa!" Lin yelled, stretching out the a. "Hey kiddo." He smiled.

"Dad, look what Audrey gave me." I handed him the collage.

"This is either really sweet or really creepy." He said, "I'm going with sweet. We can put it up in your room when we get home." He set it down, "and she framed these for you?" He asked picking up the framed picture of the two of us, when we first met.

"Yeah." I smiled.

"Well, I'm keeping this one." He smiled, and set the frame on his table. I looked around his dressing room quickly, and saw a couple of other traces of me, a picture of me with my adoption certificate was taped on the mirror, one of Vanessa and I, on his bookshelf, and a newspaper article about the adoption tacked up on the wall. "Thaynes looking for you, by the way, says he needed help with something."

"Thanks." I smiled, and turned around, leaving the room. I was like, 2 steps out of the room when I saw Groff. My face lit up.

"Hi sweetie." He said, giving me a hug, "long time no see, how have you been?"

"Great, how about you?" I asked.

"I've been good." He tousled my hair a little, "I've missed you peanut."

"I've missed you too." I smiled, "are you gonna go make out with my dad now?" I asked.

"Oh gosh child." He blushed, "not you too. We've kissed twice, and he kissed me first." I was doubled over laughing, "I'm just making this worse, aren't I?"

"Yes, yes you are." I regained my composure, "congrats on your nomination, by the way." I said.

"Thanks peanut, I'm going to go say hi to your dad." He started to open the door to Lins room, "and no, we're not going to kiss. Because he's straight and he's married to a woman!"

"Yes I know, Groff I do live with him."

"Mi amor!" I heard Lin yell, and I shook my head, knowing that Groff just  walked in.

I know I was supposed to look for Thayne, but I actually did have a job, I was on the official pay roll, I (technically) could get fired, I mean, Lin would never fire me, especially not for this, but I'm trying to keep a low profile, not cause any issues.

•••

"Abi Miranda, where were you?" Thayne asked, once I was backstage, during intermission, I was hiding during the first act, and by hiding I mean napping in my old room.

"Thayne I have a job." I smiled.

"Yes but it's unimportant at the moment, I'm making a video. I already had Ephraim film the first little bit. Come child." He took my hand and pulled me behind the set, where Oak and Daveed were sitting. "Here's my phone, you tell me when to start." He handed me his phone, and I pulled up the camera.

"Okay, go." I said, and started filming. And he started rapping, after about 10, 15 seconds he stopped, and I stopped filming.

"Thanks Miranda, that's all I needed." He took his phone back, just as I did that, my phone buzzed.

Dad:
I need a second brain on a song

Dad:
It's about a crab

Dad:
Well it's sung by a crab

Dad:
An evil crab

Dad:
Can you read/sing the evil crab song?

Dad:
Never mind, I'm your father. Come read/sing the evil crab song.

"I gotta go." I said to Thayne and headed towards Lin's dressing room. "I'll sing as an evil crab now."

"Alrighty." He handed me a piece of paper.

"Lin, you need to work on your handwriting."

"Shut up." He said, and I laughed.

"Lin!" His door flew open, "I'm gonna do a thing and your reaction is now." Thayne was standing there with his phone

"Wait what?" Lin laughed.

•••

"I hate stage dooring." I said, following Lin outside. Just as the door open, there was a mass of screaming.

"I know hon, just, you have to stay near me. I know I'm going all over-protective dad here, but, I'm not gonna lose you again, and I don't want you to have to go through that again." He wrapped his arm around my waist and kissed my temple.

"Lin, you do know that literally a hundred people have a picture of that right?" I said, considering we were standing on the steps in front of the stage door.

"Yep." He smiled at the crowd, "hi!" He smiled and waved. His hand left my waist, and grabbed my hand pulling me along behind him as he signed stuff.

"Uh, Lin?" A girl at the front of the barricade asked, "can, uh, can you take a picture of me and your daughter? If I can get a picture, if that's okay with you?" She wrung her hands nervously.

"Of course." She handed him her phone, and I stood next to her through the barricade, putting my arm around her shoulders. "Say cheese." He said goofily, and took the picture.

We stage doored for a little while, then drove home.

"Goodnight Mija, thanks again for breakfast." Lin shuffled me into my bedroom.

"You're welcome, congrats on your nominations." I smiled at him and got in bed.

"Go to sleep my small child." He handed me Cookie.

"Goodnight Dad." I laughed.

"Goodnight Mija."

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Sorry for the short chapter.

Sorry for the odd, time skippy, uneventful, awkward, unnecessary, boring, filler chapter

Sorry it's late.

I got 7 hours of sleep last night. Yay me!

BTW: for all of you who desperately want to know my sleep schedule. I generally fall asleep at 10:00 ish and I wake up, on an average day at 5:00 am.

The soundtrack for this book (BTW) is below!

1.) Hope - Idina Menzel

2.) Bring Him Home - Les Miserables:

3.) Nobody Knows You (When You're Down and Out) - Leslie Odom Jr.

4.) Cheer Up Charlie - Leslie Odom Jr.

5.) I Dreamed A Dream - Les Miserables:

6.) The Wizard and I - Wicked:

7.) No Day But Today - Rent

8.) You Learn To Live Without - If/Then

9.) Stronger - Finding Neverland

10.) Tomorrow - Idina (BAS version - when she dedicated it to her parents)

11.) No One Is Alone - Into The Woods

12.) For Good - Wicked

13.) Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Beautiful

14.) She Used To Be Mine - Waitress.

If you want to know my reasoning, comment on that song and I'll tell you how it relates to the story.

Love y'all

Thanks for reading!

- Abi