A/N Just a little disclaimer that may be obvious but still. I do not own Glee, I do not know personally anyone mentioned. This is purely a fiction exercise. Also because English is not my native language you may have to excuse some mistakes I may write. That being said I hope you enjoy it. :)
You are still very tired from the journey home. You spent over two months in Australia and New Zealand in the set of a big production movie. You love your job as a makeup artist but sometimes these long periods of time away from home could leave you exhausted.
Anyway, even though you had only arrived the day before, there you are getting ready for Dianna Agron's birthday party. You have been friends with her since you worked in the makeup department of Glee, throughout most of season one. Then bigger, more interesting artistic wise opportunities came in, mostly great movie productions and you had no shame at all accepting them. But still your friendship with Dianna remained and grew stronger and you are pretty much best friends. You are also friends with some of the members of the cast, especially Kevin McHale. People who joined the show by the end of season one or later are merely acquaintances to you and some of them you have never even met.
So there you are trying to find Dianna in the party. Nearly everybody has some kind of costume or fantasy since the party is themed. Circus themed, she had told you.
You are not very willing to leave the comfort of your couch at home, let alone managing to find or even think of a costume for the party. So there you were, no special fantasy, just the first skinny clean jeans you found and a black top. Of course you are the one feeling weird among all those people in disguise.
You look around and you can't seem to recognize anybody, at least on a first glance. "Damn, they aren't kidding with all these costumes...", you think amused.
You walk through the people and some of them look curiously at you, wondering why you aren't in a costume.
You're starting to feel a little self conscious with all those looks till you finally spot Kevin McHale. Or at least you think it's him because he has all this weird and heavy makeup on. "Jesus, what a lousy job, what a bad makeup artist", you giggle to yourself. You think he might have done that himself. He's talking to a taller guy who has the same makeup job on his face and the same costume. Something between a mime and a clown. "Jesus, it's a circus indeed," you chuckle amused.
As you approach Kevin and the other guy you quickly recognize him. "So, this is the famous Sebastian Smythe." You remember some of the episodes he was in and you remember thinking, "like there weren't already enough hysterical fangirls and fanboys watching this show, they go and put on a guy like this." You have never met him even though Kevin and Dianna mentioned him before. Of course, he has only been in the current season since a few months ago and you have been all sorts of busy away from the country most of this year.
As you reach Kevin he looks at you opening his eyes and shouts "Oh my god! It's you!" he immediately gets over you and hugs you. "How are you? Wait a second, why are you dressed like that? Weren't you told this was a themed party?" He frowns amused.
"Ah, for fuck's sake, Kevin, less than 24 hours ago I was arriving at LA from probably the most intense two months of my working life. If Di wasn't one of my best friends I wouldn't even be here. I would be sleeping in my comfy bed. The last thing I wanted was to even think about costumes. So, considering I'm the one clashing with this simple plain outfit, you can think of me as the freak of this party." You make a weird comic smile and immediately Kevin and the Sebastian guy burst into laughter.
You chuckle too and you shake your head rolling your eyes at them. Kevin finally stops laughing and notices Grant looking at you. "Oh, sorry. You don't know each other. This is Grant." As Kevin introduces you both Grant extends his hand. "Hi, nice to meet you." He smiles.
"You too." You shake hands in a somewhat clumsy way. Grant stares at you for a bit which makes you feel a little self-conscious. "So, where's Di?" You ask suddenly to Kevin, breaking the awkward eye contact with Grant.
"I'm pretty sure I last saw her over that corner, near the bar." He points in the opposite direction.
"Ok, I'll try to find her. See you guys." You smile but you avoid looking at Grant.
"Sure, but I still want to hear all about your time in Australia and New Zealand!" Kevin shouts as you are already walking away. You look back nodding at him only to find Grant staring at you again with a silly smile. "Is he stupid or something?" You wonder amused as you make your way to the bar.