Adopted By Thomas Sanders and The Sanders Sides (UNDER EDITING!)

Logan and Aricka: Color With Me?

(She's home now, but can't go back to school yet.)

Aricka was coloring in her Disney princess coloring book. Yes, she knows it's childish to color Disney princess, but she loved coloring-it made her less bored. Also, it was a way to let her frustration out.  Right now she was playing the Dear Evan Hansen soundtrack-Requiem was playing right now.

  "Why should I play this game of pretend?
Remembering through a secondhand sorrow?
Such a great son and wonderful friend
Oh, don't the tears just pour

I could curl up and hide in my room
There in my bed, still sobbing tomorrow
I could give in to all of the gloom
But tell me, tell me what for

Why should I have a heavy heart?
Why should I start to break in pieces?
Why should I go and fall apart for you?

Why should I play the grieving girl and lie
Saying that I miss you
And that my world has gone dark without your light?
I will sing no requiem tonight...."  

She'd forgotten that this had been her favorite song-it reminded her too much of Sean, and she'd stopped listening to it. She started humming, then sang,

"I gave you the world, you threw it away

Leaving these broken pieces behind you
Everything wasted, nothing to say
So I can sing no requiem...

  I hear your voice, I feel you near

Within these words, I finally find you
And now that I know that you are still here
I will sing no requiem tonight...." Logan walks in at that point. Her eyes lit up-Logan hadn't come to visit her since she got home from the hospital. 

"I heard you singing-are you okay?" she nods. "Alright." he turns to leave, but she calls out,

"Lo?" he stops. "Will you stay-stay and color with me?" He barely stayed with her anymore. "I miss seeing you Logan." he turns and allows a small smile.

"I'll stay for a while, at least until Thomas or Patton need me." both of them heard this, and said,

"WE WON'T NEED YOU FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT!" Aricka laughs, covering her mouth with her hand. Slipping her mask on, she hands a page to Logan-it was one of Sebastian, the crab from the Little Mermaid.

"Want me to play something different?" she asks, as "Sincerely Me," starts playing. (She had it on shuffle. Logan shakes his head no, and they keep coloring. Aricka can't stop herself from singing along.

"Dear Evan Hansen

We've been way too out of touch
Things have been crazy
And it sucks that we don't talk that much
But I should tell you that I think of you each night
I rub my nipples and start moaning with delight...

  I love my parents

But each day's another fight

If I stop smoking drugs

Then everything might be alright..." she keeps humming, and is surprised when Logan starts singing,

"Dear Connor Murphy,

Yes, I also miss our talks
Stop doing drugs
Just try to take deep breaths and go on walks...

  Dude, I'm proud of you

Just keep pushing through
You're turning around
I can see..." then they look at each other, grin, and start singing,

"'Cause all that it takes is a little reinvention

It's easy to change if you give it your attention
All you gotta do is just believe you can be who you want to be
Sincerely, Me..." the song ends, and they laugh.

"That was fun, Evan Hansen," Aricka says, and hugs him. "I really missed you, Logan." Logan hugs her tighter. 

"I missed you too, Dear Connor Murphy."