Chapter 37 - Kanye, Elmo and Daveed Diggs

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Friday I came home from school and dragged myself backstage to go up 3 flights of stairs until I had to work at 6:30. I literally dragged my backpack up the stairs when Renée jumped on my back.

"Hi!"

"Aahhh!" I screamed a note that most people can't even hit, "why would you DO that?!" I heavily breathed as I turned around.

"You should definitely go into the auditorium, they're filming a new Ham4Ham."

"Ok." I sighed and dragged myself into the auditorium, via the stage. I left my backpack in the wing. I tried to stifle my laughed when I saw Chris shaking Elmo's hand. This was something I had to see. I subtly snuck into into the auditorium, and sat down in the sea of red seats.

"I may not live to see our glory" sang Chris, as Chris sang this Elmo actually began talking to him and I sat there in my seat giggling silently. 

"Raise a glass to freedom!" Chris continued singing

"Raise a glass?" Questioned the childhood icon

"Raise a glass!" Chris confirmed

"A glass of what?" Obviously Elmo was confused, as he did not understand the founding fathers were referencing the 2 pints of Sam Adams that John Lauren's was working on.

"Apple Juice." I giggled more, I love this.

"Delicious." Apparently, Elmo approved of Chris's drinking habits.

Needless to say, I got to meet Elmo, which was a childhood dream. Obviously. I eventually did get to take a nap after I dragged myself upstairs. At 6:30 I woke back up and walked downstairs.

"Hey!" Oak walked beside me on the stairs, "Daveed should be back today!" 

"Yay!" Daveed had been on vacation for a little while, he should be back today or tomorrow. Needless to say all of us were thrilled.

As I working, about 30 minutes later I was talking to a girl, who was at my stand.

"Have you seen him?" She asked as I was bagging her t-shirt

"Who, like Lin, cast members?" I asked, confused

"No, of course you've seen them, apparently Kanye West is supposed to be here tonight." I groaned and rolled my eyes, I don't want to have to deal with him, hopefully I won't.

"Oh, great. No I haven't seen him." She smiled, agreeing with my evaluation of Kanye. It's not that I don't like his music, he's just kind of a jerk, and I'm working here. 

I heard more and more people talking about Kanye being here and that basically confirmed it. At about 7:45, most people had gone into the theater, seeing as the show started in 15 minutes. The lobby was mostly empty and I was getting ready to make a run for it, I grabbed my book from behind the stand and when I looked up I saw Daveed standing there.

"Hi! Welcome back!" I hugged him, excited to see him, it had been a entire week.

"Hey! Don't tell them I'm here yet! I want to surprise them, also, I want to see the show."

"Well, it's a great show, but I'm pretty sure you knew that. Enjoy yourself, you should probably get in the house. Bye!"

He responded to my goodbye and walked inside of the auditorium, I on the other hand, walked backstage and was walking upstairs when I passed Lin.

"Hey, heads up, Kanyes here tonight." I kept walking but glanced behind and Lin was obviously quite excited about this. Whether he was just a big Kanye West fan or he had some weird idea, I couldn't tell. No matter, I would find out later.

I sat in my room doing some homework and watching Smash. Don't judge me, it's actually one of my favorite TV shows, and it has like half the Hamilcast in it. Therefore I had to watch it in private, or they would get annoyed with me, or flock me. Neither of which seemed like a good option. Anyway Megan Hilty was halfway through Second Hand White Baby Grand, when my phone reminded me that the show was ending, as if I couldn't hear the thunderous roar of applause every 2-3 minutes.

I pulled myself out of my bean bag chair and all he way downstairs into the backstage space. I saw Lin taking a picture with Kanye West. Yep, he was here tonight. Well good for him, get some culture. Matter he took a picture with Lin he saw me.

"Hey! It's the girl who was selling merchandise!" I was confused, he did not buy anything from me. I would of remembered. "Yeah, your line was like twice as long as all the others! You need to speed it up! Why are you even backstage?"

"Um... Ok, Hi. Firstly, my name's Abigail, and I'm not slow at selling merch. Also, I'm backstage because I live here." He turned to Lin for a translation.

"We're adopting. She lives here, we have her sellin merch, people like her so they want to buy our crap from her, the fandom is real." 

"Oh, ok, cool." With that he left. That was slightly awkward, I never imagined meeting Kanye West, but if I were ever to imagine it, I would imagine it very different from that.

"Hey!" Daveed walked backstage, excited to see everybody.

"YOU'RE BACK!" Jonathan ran over to Daveed and hugged him, because that's just who Jonathan is. Everybody got excited that he was there. And Daveed was blown away by the show, I guess where you watch it really does make a difference. He finally got to see this masterpiece. Good for him. 


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- Abi

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