Things We Do for Love by Miranda Dickinson

Author:Miranda Dickinson [Dickinson, Miranda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2024-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Eight

THEO

OMG! Hot! 🔥🔥

Rom-THEO, Rom-THEO, kiss me like this, Rom-THEO! In the front row for this and am now pregnant! ❤

Suddenly VERY interested in Shakespeare … 🤤 Bloody hell #TheoKiss – I am shooketh!

No way are they just friends. Lucky lady! #HelloRomeo You HAVE to see this! ❤ 😲

It’s ridiculous.

But I love every single response. Even the worryingly thirsty replies from ladies as old as my nan. It’s exactly what we wanted but still a massive shock that it worked.

Not that our kiss worked: that the audience responded like this.

I never doubted our kiss.

Our kiss was always going to work because we choreographed it to the heartbeat. I’m so proud of the effort and courage we’ve invested in the scene that’s now setting the internet on fire. We have to do it again – one more performance today and then twice a day for the next four days – and while I know it’s dangerous to lay too much store by the initial reaction, I’m filled with a fresh surge of confidence I’d worried I wouldn’t find again.

We did what we set out to do. Lucie made it magical and I followed her lead.

Lucie made it happen.

She was incredible.

I look across the crew room to my co-star, hoping to catch her eye, but she’s huddled over her copy of Romeo and Juliet on the props trunk, one hand resting at the back of her neck as she studies the scene. Always the professional, I think, aware of my own battered script book languishing at the bottom of my rucksack, unlikely to be consulted again today.

A sudden, uninvited memory arrives of the warm softness of her skin beneath my fingers as I helped unfasten her necklace. And how close I was to …

Shocked by my train of thought, I slam on the brakes.

That was just helping a colleague. She would have done the same for me.

Another video clip of our kiss appears on my phone as I scroll through my Mentions on Instagram. It looks so good. I felt its power from within our embrace but seeing it confirmed from the audience’s point of view is something else. I glance at Lucie again. I should tell her how good it was. Express exactly how much her bravery elevated our performance. How much it meant to me. So far, I’ve only managed to mumble congratulations, my words helplessly inadequate in the wake of everything I feel.

‘Looks like the plan worked.’ Ced is grinning at me when I look up from my phone.

‘Looks like it. Thanks again, mate. We couldn’t have done it without you.’

‘You couldn’t have done it without each other,’ he replies, eyeing me meaningfully. ‘Remember that.’

‘I will,’ I say, feeling as if I’ve just agreed to something I’m not entirely certain I understand. It seems to be enough, though: Ced slaps my back and heads over to Ophelia, who is fluttering somewhere between elation and tears over by the garden entrance.

Today is unbelievable. Lucie and I were incredible. It would be so easy to get caught up in the thrill of it all and make a stupid mistake.

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