who: theo + caroline (@oflostdrcams) where: stage door for chicago on broadway!!!!
no one sent him the instagram post this time. theo was following caroline again, so he'd seen her post thanking the back to the future cast and crew and the one about getting a principal role on chicago earlier in the month. when he saw the one mentioning her first performance, theo spent days debating over it.
but ever since he'd seen that post, something in the back of his head heart was sching to check it out. he sprang for tickets and sat in one of the wings in the balcony, watching the woman he loved cared so much about achieving her childhood dream. instead of feeling jealousy because he wanted to be on a different kind of stage doing what he loved with the band, theo just felt proud. he stood and clapped and even wolf whistled when she came out for her curtain call. he could have left then. maybe it would have been smarter to do. but he didn't.
he went to the stage door feeling a strange sense of deja vu, pausing to buy a bouquet of roses from a nearby cart and stepping up to the back of the crowd. theo craned his neck to see. there was some guy out there now, hamming it up to the fans, and since he had no interest in that, theo took half a step back. his bed was calling. and then-
caroline.
part of him wanted to bolt for the nearest subway station. but a bigger part of him, the part that had told him to run away to new york instead of any other city, wanted to stay right here and wanted her to notice him. so theo lifted a hand in an awkward wave.
