Into the New World
idxjia:
“Want me to help you practice? It might help calm your nerves if we do a little one on one while everyone is taking a break,” she said. “Less people watching.”
“That would be fantastic,” Erin said, with a sigh of relief. She wasn’t normally camera shy, or really any type of shy. Erin was born for the stage. That was something she felt in her bones from her first performance in a local play. But this was one part she couldn’t get into, and that felt wrong to display so publicly.
It wasn’t that she was afraid to look a fool. Some of her best roles had involved making a complete ass of herself on stage. The problem was that she knew she wasn’t doing a good job. At least, not up to her own standards. It didn’t feel right to give any audience, even one made up of mostly staff members and fellow trainees, such a sub-par performance. Erin prided herself on being able to make people smile and her dancing clearly wasn’t doing that. She could and would do better. Even if it meant devoting every spare moment before the show went live to practice.
“For the record,” Erin said as she walked back to the now-empty stage area. It was the only place wide open enough for decent dance practice. Everywhere else was crowded with masses of people. From idols, to trainees, to staff, it seemed that every inch of the building was filled to the brim. In her time at Singularity, Erin had never seen so much work going on at once. “I have an in with Mickey. At least Korean Mickey. I’m in his club, you know.”
Erin gave a dramatic hair flip and spoke with an unreasonable amount of smug tone in her voice. She aimed to make Jia laugh. Something to break the tension. Something to take away from her complete failure. Give her some positive attention before she screwed up the choreo again with her stiff, unnatural movements. Then, she stopped in her tracks, a revolutionary thought having just hit her. “...dude. That means, like... I technically work for Disney, doesn’t it?”
Laughter burst from her lips at the thought. The gig was new and she really hadn’t considered it before. She was a Disney star. A low rent one, for sure, but she was on a goddamn Disney show. Disney was really out there promoting her gay self. “Oh my god, that’s hilarious.”













