When Patty Hastings started her ASL cover of Shut Up And Fish, Holly and Edwina took it as their sign that they should sneak out before they had to suffer 3 minutes and 42 seconds of torture. Sorry, Kaz and Jamie.
Edwina followed behind Holly as the other girl was way more assertive in telling people to move their feet so they could get by. With only three a incidents of almost tripping and one-thousand “sorry, excuse me!”s, the two girls finally escaped the row of annoyed pageant moms and bored boyfriends coming to support their high school sweethearts.
After a few minutes of squabbling over which way they should go to get backstage, they finally wound up smacking into Violet in her yellow pageant gown. The two stopped their old married couple bickering when they realized their argument was solved for them.
“Okay, so do we know what this box looks like? Are you just picking up any box we see? Do we even know where we’re going??” she asked as they began the venture backstage. Normal Secondary had an odd auditorium set up which made Edwina question how a public school this size afford backstage space so generous. In fact, it actually started to feel more and more like an unfamiliar maze as they kept walking. She didn’t know if she just didn’t remember the backstage area as much or the summer heat and lack of AC in the building was causing her to start hallucinating. She took a nervous puff from her inhaler before a pile of cardboard boxes that had previously held the programs for the pageant caught her eye. Edwina kicked them over like she was the shortest Godzilla in the world. She looked to Violet, who still didn’t seem to have her voice back. “So we can rule those boxes out as the ones we’re looking for.”
// @hollys-eve @violet-matthews
