A Broadway Adoption

Chapter 6: The Day Off

After a long night of watching movies and singing until the early morning, I had left Dana's place and began my journey back to the orphanage. Whenever I arrived there were a lot of people there looking at kids and adopting, being here feels like a zoo. The kids get looked at and interviewed, that it feels like we are on display for them, and they pick whichever one they want. I head to my room that I share with 8 other girls, all of which are barely there as well, and grab my hammock, along with my rehearsal bag and head to Central Park. As I get to my spot that's down a path not many people take, I start to hang up my hammock between my two favorite trees. I have to climb both of the trees to get my straps pretty high, so that way I'm high up above the ground, with my hammock hanging up and my backpack hanging from one of the branches right by my hammock, I do my little twist into my hammock. 

(Basically if you don't have a hammock, it's where you are on the ground and you flip the hammock over you and you hook both of your arms in it and one leg in it. That when you kick your other leg up, you turn your body and it twists you into the hammock)

Once I'm settle I put in my headphones and start to listen to the music for the show and work on memorizing my lines. After a bit of going over my lines and rehearsing the songs, I decide to take a break and just sit back in my hammock, after I got myself a good swing going. I had put everything up in my backpack and just laid there, thinking about everything that I had happened to me in the last few months and even last year. It's crazy to think how much someone's life can change in a split second, I started to think about my parents and what it would be like if my dad had never abused me or if my dad hadn't killed mom. I didn't realize I was crying until I felt a wave of sadness wash over me and I couldn't hold back anymore, I just let the flood gate open. It made me wonder if I should call Dana or Presley, because I just needed someone, but my irrational side won the bet and I started to overthink everything. As I'm crying my eyes and heart out, I hear the rocks crunch underneath the foot of someone coming along this path, which one surprised me, since not a lot of people know about it, and two had me freaking out, that I tried to stop my tears and be as quiet as possible. Hearing the footsteps get closer and closer to me had my heart pounding in my chest, but what really sent my heart into a frenzy was when they stopped right at the two trees that I'm hanging from. The only thing I could do was silently pray that they would leave and not bother me, but seems like luck was not on my side as I hear someone ask,

"Hey are in the production of Beetlejuice? I wonder who you are, since I'm in it as well." I hear the of so familiar Alex Brightman calls out to me. It was at this point that the tears had stop, but would fall at any given moment, so not trusting my voice and wiping away any tears that may had been left, I moved up into a sitting position in my hammock. 

"Oh hey Lily! I saw that you had your Beetlejuice binder in your backpack as we were walking by, and got curious about who it was." Alex said, it was then I had notice he said "we" and looked down to see a beautiful dog, who I assumed was Kevin from overhearing Alex talk about him to other cast members. It was then that Alex had taken a closer look at my face and got a worried looked in his eyes. 

"Hey, is everything alright? It looks like you have been crying recently, did something happen at Dana's last night?" He says in a concerned tone. It was at this time that I hopped out of my hammock and crouched down to see if Kevin would come up to me. What I didn't expect was Kevin to come running at me and start attacking my face with kisses, and this will forever be the reason why I love dogs. They just know when someone is upset or going through a hard time and will try and cheer you up so you won't be upset anymore. Alex started to pull on his leash and try to apologize, when I spoke up,

"You don't have to worry about him, I don't mind that he's doing that, I really needed that. You can let him go, he's a sweetheart." I say in a hopeful tone that he will let Kevin come back to me. To my surprise Alex lets Kevin go and Kevin goes right back to licking my face and trying to cheer me up.

"Lily, are you ok? It looks like you've been crying, not mention that you are a completely different person when you are around Presley and acting. You act so differently around me and the others, that we are worried about you. Is there anything going on or something that has happen to you?" Alex in a concerning tone, and looks me in the eyes with a soft look, that I don't know what happened, but the next thing I know, I'm bawling my eyes out and clinging onto Alex. Taking the both of us by surprise, that he slowly wraps his arms around me, like he's afraid that he'll startle me, and starts to comfort me. 

"Woah, hey it's ok Lils, just relax, everything is going to be ok." He says in a comforting tone and starts to sooth my hair down.

"Why don't we head back to my apartment and we can talk it about it? We can also rehearse some stuff for the show if you'd rather do that, or I can cook us some food and you can just relax with Kevin." He says with uncertainty, but what he wasn't prepared for was this,

"Are you sure that's ok? I really don't want to be alone right now, but I understand if you don't want to deal with me." I say in a weak and quiet voice. 

"I wouldn't have offered if I didn't mean it kid, so why don't we get your hammock down and we can walk back to my place." He says with a smile on his face. After we take down my hammock and put it up, we make our way back to his place.

A/N: Sorry for the late update, we had a bad storm when I was writing this and the power went out for 5 hours, here's the next part in the book! :)