Down For The Count

Kat

Paisley's POV

When I woke up on Sunday, the whole apartment was quiet, which is weird because Lin and Vanessa usually get up pretty early. I'm always greeted in the mornings by either a baby crying, a dog barking, or a Lin singing loudly. Maybe everyone's just sleeping in.

I got ready for the day, sitting back on my bed when I did so. I was ready to just lay around for a bit longer, but my stomach started to rumble, and my mind immediately went back to what Chris said to me last night.

We're worried about you.

And I said I would try. So if my body gives me a sign, I should probably take it. I should try.

I made my way out of my room and to the kitchen, peeking my head down the hallway to see Lin and Vanessa's bedroom door closed and Sebastian's bedroom door closed.

Very weird.

When I got to the kitchen, I made myself a bowl of cereal, sitting myself down at the table and beginning to eat. I scrolled through Twitter, which was fine when a handful of the tweets were about yesterday's Ham4Ham, but proved to be a not so great idea the farther I scrolled.

Lin_Manuel:
Today's #Ham4Ham was THE best. Kenny Brescia, I am in love with you. Adam Freaking Pascal, I am in love with you. @LacketyLac I am in love with you and your luscious locks. And Twitter peeps! I am in love with you the hardest. Go get some sleep, goodnight. (And Happy Anniversary Rent!)

LaVieBoheme:
@Lin_Manuel I'M STILL CRYING OMG

ReneeGoldsberry:
@LaVieBoheme ME TOO I WAS UGLY CRYING FROM MY DRESSING ROOM. UGH THE RENT NOSTALGIA :'(

1-800-yayhamlet:
@Lin_Manuel I still don't understand why they let you have a megaphone

newyork077:
@Lin_Manuel my friend and I met you at stage door last night. Thank you for being so nice! (And @PaisleyMiranda , you both were awesome :))

CourtneyMartin33:
@PaisleyMiranda looked sick at stage door last night. Is she okay?

shutupheather:
@PaisleyMiranda have you been eating honey :(

janthonytrash04:
@shutupheather It's not our place to judge someone if they want to start dieting. Maybe she finally took a hint, good for her.

shutupheather:
...there's a difference between dieting and starving yourself, she legitimately looks unhealthy @janthonytrash04

maybeitsmaebelline:
@Lin_Manuel @VAMNit is Paisley eating? Is she okay?

So now this is the part where I panic, because now we've hit stage three. Lin and Vanessa noticing I'm not eating? Not a big deal, I expected them to pick up on that pretty quick. The cast? Makes me a little uncomfortable that they've all picked up on it too, but they're like my second family. I knew it would only be a matter of time, so I didn't freak out too much when people were trying to get me to eat last night and asking me if I was okay.

But now this? Hundreds of thousands of random people that I don't even know? I don't like that. I hate being under a magnifying glass all the time.

Now that they've picked up on this, it's definitely going to become a big problem. Lin and Vanessa have been sort of lenient about this whole eating thing, not pushing me too far if I can't do it.

But I know that's about to change. Because now everyone knows, and that is not a good thing.

Before I could panic anymore, I saw Lin walk out of his bedroom and down the hallway towards me. I smiled, waving at him. He laughed, waving back, but he looked a tiny bit confused.