To belong is a verb that Ruth has barely ever experienced. Her parents gave her up, only nine years old. And as any nine-year-old would've done - she waited for them to come pick her up. She became a part of the fostering system. Jumping from state...
As soon as the last button was on, I handed it over to him, achieving a big hug. "Thank you, thank you, thank youuu!", he said, letting go of me and soon leaving the room. After only a few seconds, his head peaked inside again. "Lifesaver", whispering. "Could you fix my back-up coat too?" I giggled, nodding. Thayne happily skipped away to get his other coat.
Lin's POV Ten minutes after the first act, and I hadn't seen a flinch of Ruth. The worrying inside me began to rise, she'd been very jumpy earlier. Or, well, she's been since the first time I'd met her. Walking up and down the stairs, peaking inside each room, not succeeding in meeting her. What if she'd ran away? I sneaked into Daveed's dressing room, looking for her happy face. "Ey, Daveed, have you seen Rue?" Both him & Oak shook their heads. "Is she gone?", I shook my shoulders, sighing. "Nah, she said she wanted to check out the place, but I haven't found her yet...", I said, failing at my mission of not showing how worried I was. "I'm sure I'll see her strolling around soon though" And with that, I walked away. "We'll go look for her too!", they both shouted after me, as I entered the common room where everyone hung out during the 30 minutes-break. "Hello, hello, has anyone seen Rue?", I looked from side to side, unfortunately not finding her in any of the rooms many corners and crowds. "No?", everyone answered, questioning my statement. "I, I just can't find her, she said she'd be back in my room after the performance, and I'm sure I'm overreacting, but she's been real jumpy for the past few days, and-" "Stop it right there, she's around, okay? I've seen her during the beginning of the show, walking around backstage", Alysha said, and a few more people nodded, agreeing. I shrugged my shoulder, as a few cast members helped me look around.
"Ey? Why's everyone so worried?" Thayne, two coats in his arms, said, while walking past the doorway. My worried face had approximately accelerated from a five to a five-hundred for the past ten minutes. "We can't find Ruth" It's been ten minutes, there were only ten til the next act. What if she actually had ran away? I mean, she'd done it before. His face turned into the most confused thing I'd experienced in a while. And then it turned into a laugh. "But, like, she's with Nico and Amanda in the costume section, helping them out...", he said between laughter. "No one thought to check the top floor, furthest away in the corridor? Or just look in all rooms?" I could hear myself exhaling deeply over the news. She was still here, still together with us. "Sorry, y'all!", apologising, running up all the stairs, hearing the giggling from downstairs. 50% over their stupidity, and 50% over my overprotectiveness.
I almost stumbled into the room, catching my breath after running like an idiot. Surprised, Ruth looked up at me, leaving her phone-screen. "What the actual fluff was that for?", she said, in a high pitch. I chuckled. "Old man Miranda thought you were gone", I casually replied. "Oh, oh, y-yeah sorry, I to-totally forgot to go back...", her head immediately started twitching, in a way that most people wouldn't have noticed, but when the desperate sight of panic in her eyes filled my mind, I couldn't possibly miss it. "Hey, it's okay! I just got a little worried, that's all!" "...LITTLE?!", Leslie's voice shouted from downstairs. "HE BASICALLY MADE EVERYONE TO GO LOOK FOR YA!" Her panicky way of looking around didn't stop the laughter that started, her giggling as she frantically started tapping her leg with two fingers. I counted. 23. "You helping our lovely costume team out, then?", I asked, sounding happy to get her to snap out of the clearly worried phase. Ruth nodded, and made room by her as I sat down right next to her tiny body. I looked over at her phone, seeing the twitter icon, and I couldn't help but show a big grin. "Um, yeah, it's a little hobby of mine-" "Wait! You. Have. Twitter?!", I excitedly cut her off, making her giggle in an adorable way. "Um... yeah?" "I. Love. Twitter", not even trying to hide my passion for the best social media app I knew, and where I basically spent all my free time. I slid my phone out of my pocket, hiding under Alexander's big coat, opening up Twitter. "What's your username?" "@ ruth_or_rue_or_something_in_between" "Ding, ding, ding! Followed!"
Ruth's pov A notification showed up on my phone. @ Lin_Manuel started following you A few more followed, mostly I'd never even heard of. Probably hard-core-fans that just followed me for the sake of Lin doing it. I put my phone down, worrying about starting to worry about what would happen if more people decided to follow me. Was I meant to post more? Would they attack me wanting to know why Lin followed me? Would they get mad that he followed me, an insignificant girl, and not them? What if I'd already upset them? Blink your eyes 74 times, and you cannot start off until the rythm is completely right. From the ground floor you could hear Tommy shout. "CURTAIN CALL IN FIVE MINUTES", and Lin sighed. He gave me a quick hug. "The silence game begins now", he whispered, leaving the room as I frantically blinked, returning to my phone, not succeeding in distracting myself from the thoughts, the worry. Blink, blink, blink. I couldn't end it until it was completely right. ----- Hello, hello🎈 And in honor of Lin's birthday, I completed this chapter. Woo🎉 Happy Birthday, you lovely piece of existence, thank you for being a brilliant human being with the greatest mind in history. You changed my world🌈 Also, here's a drawing I did a few days ago bc I wanted to do something Hamilton-related. This is what I ended up with;
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