After the play and the small meet and greet with the actors in the lobby, the actors went back to their dressing rooms to take off their costumes and make-up.

The techies started striking the set and Kirra was in the middle of erasing all of the cues on her sound and lighting boards when she saw a familiar head of bright hair in the corner of her eye, "This is the more boring part of it, nothing really much happens during strike." Well, that was a lie, but she wanted to pick his brain!

Nat leaned against the wall and nodded, "I thought I might hang for a bit. I wanted to give Double D and Kevin some date time now that they're official." He crossed his arms and looked out of the window to watch the various students take apart the set.

Kirra nodded and continued erasing the cues with a small smile, "Since it's closing night, the cast usually goes out to eat at a diner together after we're done. Wanna join?"

Nat blinked and smiled, "Yeah? Would I be allowed to or am I going to be put at a different table?" He lightly trailed off and glanced back out of the window when a certain someone came on stage and started helping with the set.

Kirra glanced up, affirming what she already knew and finished with the boards. She cleared her throat and after fiddling with her phone for a second she started walking towards the cat-walks, "It's a general rule that everyone in the theatre helps tear down, if you need a job I'm positive that someone can find you one." She turned and paused at his slightly confused expression and pointed a thumb towards the stage, "The guy with the intense stare is the one you should be looking for."

Nat looked back out of the window and locked eyes with Rave who was standing with one arm on his side and the other holding his phone. Nat glanced back at the doorway and then left the tech booth to go to the stage.

Kirra quickly got to the front cat-walk and watched from above as Nat walked down one of the aisles and hopped onto the stage to talk to Rave.

To everyone else it was just another person helping out, but Kirra noticed the bored eyes of the actor's always looking at something other than Nat's and when they met, he paused for a second before pointing to a set piece that still had yet to be taken down.

Kirra cocked her head to the side and leaned back on her hands, 'I wonder what happened…' she thought for a few more seconds before starting to take some of the lighting equipment down, 'Might as well be productive.'

After the fourth light was taken down, she texted her dad, 'Going to be home a bit later tonight. The world needs some saving.'

To which he replied, 'There's an extra 20 in your backpack for Denny's. Try not to burn the diner down.'

As it turned out, Kevin and Edd were just leaving Denny's as the first theatre kids started showing up. Kirra gave a small wave and went inside to warn the servers about their little group of fifteen. She watched from the window as they walked toward a car and got in, she figured it was one of their parent's and smiled to herself. She and Nat were so gonna toast to a successful mission sometime that night.

Joshua and Sam sat next to each other, more on the outskirts of the area of the theatre kids so they could still be in with conversations but out of the major shenanigans.

Kirra took a deep breath and let it out slowly, it was always bittersweet when a show ended but the stress relief was more than needed. She ordered a soda and relaxed into the cushion for a while before everyone started showing up.

She smiled to herself when Rave and Nat sat next to each other. The latter rolling his eyes at the obnoxious other. Kirra could see a bit of tension between the two, but not a bad tension. More of an uneasy/testing the water kind.

Kirra texted underneath the table and waited a bit before Nat got her message.

The teal haired boy glanced down at his phone and then up to the brunette before opening and reading it. 'you should probably make a little move before he starts thinking it was a joke.'

He gave her a confused look before replying, 'how did you know anything about that?'

She gave a grin, 'intuition. and people who can forge handwriting. now get on with it.'

Nat glanced at Rave who was staring out the window in a bored manner and then gave a helpless look to Kirra, 'what do i do?'

Kirra almost choked on her drink, 'mr casanova doesn't know how to woo the mistress?!' She almost couldn't keep in her laughter.

The football player rolled his eyes and gave a small glare, 'i can do big things. not little ones. im sure that princess wouldn't like being kissed in front of everyone right here and now.'

Kirra nodded in acceptance and thought for a few seconds about a subtle gesture. Her face brightened and her fingers flew across the keyboard so fast that she had to check for errors before sending it.

'lick his ear.'

"What?!"

She cringed at the sudden loud outburst from Nat and bit her lip to keep in her giggles. Kirra glanced up at Rave's surprised face and his asking what was happening.

Nat made some sort of stupid excuse and chuckled his slight embarrassment away. When Rave shrugged and started listening in on another conversation that had started taking off about musicals, Nat gave Kirra a glare.

She shrugged and then texted him seriously, Kirra watched Nat's face become thoughtful before sighing and relaxing his shoulders.

She watched Rave's face and saw the exact moment when Nat's hand came into contact with Rave's under the table. It held a hint of surprise before softening the slightest bit but continued on with his conversation as if nothing was actually happening.

Kirra looked back at Nat who was now smiling widely at nothing in particular and then joined in the same conversation.

When she said her goodbyes to the last two people hanging around the Denny's she hid behind a small wall and noticed their hands (now) on top of the table, still joined.

When her dad asked her how the last show went when she got into the car, all she had to say was "Perfect."

That next Monday was a bit hectic. The school was buzzing with the news of the new couple of a football player and a science nerd. Their outing wasn't met with much of a negative force. Kevin's friends on the team made sure of that. Actually it was noted that Double D, Ed, and Eddy were all sitting at the jock table playing cards.

Eddy was somehow winning, but it looked like there were some disagreements with it.

Kirra was convinced that the sudden mix wouldn't actually work for a while until everyone figured out a safe common ground.

Some noticed Nat's absence from the lunch area, but when Double D asked Kevin about it, he just waved it off and said Nat had some things he needed to do.

When Kirra passed by the theatre, she chose not to enter when she heard light laughter and low voices. She couldn't help but sneak a peek though. Kirra held in her 'aww' noise when she saw Rave trying to teach Nat how to dance.

Needless to say Nat seemed a bit peeved that he couldn't get anything right, while Rave was more amused than anything.

She grinned to herself as she shut the door quietly and continued through the hall. Her three major projects of the year were now completely done. Now she just had to worry about the ones she would be graded on.

Damn. Those were still a thing weren't they?

WOW. That was fun to write. I really hope that you all enjoyed it and I certainly hope that it was up to your expectations! This story was a lot of fun to write and honestly I didn't want to end it for a while. But alas, I had to. :) if you have any question for me about anything in this story at all please feel free to leave it in a review or a pm or message me on tumblr! :D

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