I woke up to someone shaking my arm, very lightly. I sat up a bit in bed, then realized, I wasn't in my bed, I was in a fort constructed of blankets and pillows, and William was there.

"Morning." I said, trying to get all of my hair somewhat orderly, from its disheveled position on my head.

"Morning Roo." William said, pushing himself up, and just to let everyone know, morning voice is a thing, and it made his voice drop like, 2 octaves.

"How'd you sleep?" I asked, yawning.

"Fantastically." He said, sitting criss cross under the blanket.

"Good." I smiled, and realized that I was still in my clothes from yesterday.

"I should go soon." He mumbled searching through the blankets and pillows for his phone, which he retrieved, and used to show the time, 9:27.

"Why?" I asked, "it's early."

"I know, I just, I feel kind of awkward."

"Why?" I asked again.

"Like, I'm imposing on your families weekend."

"Oh, this isn't our weekend, Lin has 2 shows today, call is 12:00, and usually they have a morning rehearsal, generally their weekend is Sunday and Monday." I explained.

"Alright, well, I guess I can stay for a few more minutes." He put his hand on the back of my head, and kissed me again. I smiled into it, and he pulled away after about 10 seconds.

"Yay." I said, referring to him staying a bit longer, and he looked at me and chuckled in response.

"Knock knock." Lin knocked on my door, opening it. "Good morning." He announced, very much awake.

"Morning." I smiled.

"Good morning." William said, checking his phone.

"Yes, so, I'm sorry to break this up, but, we have to be at the theater in a half hour."

"Ok." I sighed, "I'll get ready." I said, standing up in our blanket fort. I made my way over to my closet, and pulled out a red dress. "I'll be right back." I said to William, and left, to go to the bathroom, to change. I changed into the dress, then pulled on black flats, coming back into my room, whilst brushing my hair.

"You move quickly in the mornings don't you?" William noted, as I was fastening a black headband in my now straight hair.

"Yeah, I guess I do." I shrugged, and grabbed my purse. "Goodbye." I said to my boyfriend who was still seated under the blanket. "Dude, get up." I walked over to him, and grabbed both of his hands pulling him into a standing position, he was still in his clothes from yesterday.

"I'm going to miss you." He said randomly.

"Oh, why?" I asked, not sure what he was referring to.

"You're going on vacation!" He reminded me.

"Oh! Oh yeah." I recalled, grabbing an apple from the bowl in the kitchen.

"And where are you going?" He pressed on.

"Honestly?" I took a deep breath, "I don't know, he hasn't told me."

"Is it really that big of a secret?" William asked, and I shrugged, at this point, Lin walked into the kitchen with a backpack on.

"Hey, where are we going on vacation?" I asked.

"Nope." He responded, checking his phone.

"It wasn't a yes or no question." I laughed a little.

"Yes, but, the answer is still no, now, we should go."

•••

We got to the theater at 10:07, which was pretty good time considering it was a Saturday morning. I went and threw my purse behind my merch stand, then came back into the auditorium, I sat down, and started mindlessly going through my phone, when I felt a tap on my shoulder.

"Hey, would you mind helping us with Groffs dressing room?" It was Kimmy, who was in the wardrobe department, whenever it was a cast members birthday, she tended to decorate their dressing room, I looked at her hands, she had several bags, and I was, in a word, curious.

"Yeah, I'd love to." I stood up, pocketing my phone, and took one of the bags from her, and followed her to the dressing room that Groff and Lin shared. She opened one of the bags, and, I can't make this up, it had several large blown up pictures of wrestlers, primarily John Cena, and I just started laughing. "Where on earth did you find these?" I asked.

"Here and there." She replied laughing, "take one, try and put it up." She motioned to the bag by our feet.

We started putting up the giant pictures in the room, and it just got more hysterical the longer we did it. I don't know what Groff was going to do when he came in, but I really wanted to see his reaction.

Rehearsal went well, today they had vocal rehearsal, so that was comprised of them gathering in the auditorium, and Lac wheeling a piano onstage to work through some rough spots.

They ran Wait For It, It's Quiet Uptown, and The Schuyler Sisters, before it was 11:00, when rehearsal switched over to dance, most of that was personal work, so Andy would work out a rough spot with 2 or 3 people. I was not participating in the dance rehearsal, I was hiding behind the clothes for quick changes, to avoid impending exercise.

Eventually Leslie found me and hid with me, I don't think he particularly disliked exercise or dance, I think he just liked to hide.

"They made a cake for Groff today." He told me, as we hid from Andy.

"Oh, did they? That's nice." I said, scrolling mindlessly through my phone again, hey, I'm 15, it's my job.

"Yes, now, I know you helps Kimmy with the dressing room, please, what does it look like?" He asked, as he wasn't supposed to see it before Groff got here.

"All I can say is that it involves a very large picture of John Cena."

"That is all I need to know, that is all anyone ever needs to know, wait, how big is it?" He asked.

"It's life sized." I told him giggling.

"Oh my gosh." He said. Finally, Tommy found us, and was a little bit done with us, not with me, I'm not cast, nor am I his prerogative, but with Leslie, who's a lead, and hiding from rehearsal.

"It's 12:15." He said, "Lin's looking for you." He added to me.

"Oh, thanks! Where is he?" I asked.

"Dressing room." He said, and I started off towards it, considering the time, Groff was here and I was quite excite to see what he thought of the new decorations.

"Knock knock?" I said, knocking on the closed door. Which Groff sprang to open.

"Hi!" He said, "come in." He was beaming.

"Hi, happy birthday!" I said, hugging him.

"Awe, thanks." He responded.

"So, how has your day been so far?" I asked.

"Great, I went out to breakfast with Lea, it was nice." He smiled.

"Isn't she coming to the show again tonight?" I asked.

"Yeah, yeah she is." He recollected.

"Fantastic." I smiled.

"Ah ha! Abigail! There you are! Can you film the ham4ham?" He asked, handing me his phone.

"Sure, just as long as you aren't going to kiss him again this year." I said laughing, and opening the camera.

"Well, the Internet didn't ask this year, so I don't think that's going to happen."

I laughed a little and started recording the video. It took all I had to not shake the camera while I filmed this, it was really funny, and I could only silently giggle. It was only at the end, Lin looked at the camera.

"I know I got you a really great present last year." He said, but all I could see was Groff staring at his lips.

"Yeah." Groff said.

"We're not topping that." Lin said, and motioned to me, to get ready to stop the video. "Good luck with the lotto." Right as he said that Groff almost tackled him, kissing him. I stopped the video then just started laughing, I had never laughed so hard.

"Well, they're gonna love that." I said, handing the phone back to Lin. "But I should really go." With that I left their dressing room laughing hysterically.

Thanks for reading!

- Abi