i'll be waiting

downthedarkpath

Language: English

url

Publisher: archiveofourown.org

Published: May 12, 2023

Words: 13210
Grade: 3
Pages: 75
Readability: 93.48

Description:

The night starts with several long hours spent waiting in the green room, the dressing rooms, and the corridors outside the stage floor with all the other idol groups waiting to perform. There’s something annoying and buzzy in the air, and Stelle shakes her jitters out every five minutes. This is the worst part.

But then, they exit stage left to a bone-rattling cheer, and if Stelle tries hard enough she can pretend the yawning ache in her muscles is something biblical, the way she thinks it’s meant to be. It’s done. March 7th bounces her way back to the green room and they all follow about five slow paces behind her. And it’s done.