This is my first (and probably last) RPF. Please let me know what you think (but don't tell me it's short because strangely enough I already know that)!
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Overwhelmed. That's the only feeling Darren can currently identify.
He tries to keep from practically skipping down the short hallway to his dressing room to remove his stage make-up so he can go to the stage door and meet all the people who'd come to support him.
A fast two minutes later, he's removed his stage make-up and bow tie, thrown on a coat and is just opening the set of exterior doors where his fans (he still couldn't believe he actually had fans) are waiting for him. He wonders if there'd be anyone he knew there tonight. The Starkids had come a few nights ago. Joe, Lauren, Dylan, Joey, and Jaime had hugged him and squealed and cried, and then taken him out for ice cream even though it was already freezing outside and Darren was still so excited he wasn't sure he'd be able to even keep anything down.
There's a cacophony of noise. Cameras are flashing and people are squealing and he's being patted on the back and everything's just happening all at once and what on earth is even going on right now?
He signs autographs and takes pictures with beaming fans. He gives hugs and shakes hands and receives pats on the back and congratulations and praise.
After about a half-hour of signing and hugging and smiling and laughing, the fans are told that it's cold and late, so it's unfortunately time for them all to leave. It's nearing 11:30pm and Darren's starting to feel how little sleep he's gotten lately, so he heads back inside the theater so he can change and go home. But there's a surprise waiting for him just outside the backstage door. His gleeks. They're all just waiting quietly for him, smiling. Clad in pink sunglasses and How to Succeed tshirts, Lea, Cory, Chris, Damian, Mark, Chord, and Ashley stand there silently, trying to look somewhat inconspicuous.
Tears are springing to his eyes and all of a sudden he's practically sprints toward them. Something very similar had happened when his Starkids had come, but it wasn't quite the same as this. They aren't supposed to be here, they're supposed to be on the other side of the continent, filming. He hadn't been expecting this; not at all. But they're here and now he's crying and the mascara left on his eyes is gonna get all gross and runny just like it had when the Starkids and his family were here and just ugh.
So he hugs everyone for what seems like hours, takes some pictures- well, lots of pictures, actually, and then eventually he goes back to his dressing room so he can go out with his co-workers- no, that's not right- his friends to grab ice cream again.
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