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MY FORBIDDEN SHOWMANCE

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last updateLast Updated : 2026-10-22
By:  Monica FindlayUpdated just now
Language: English
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Comedy

Contemporary

Sweet Love

Actor / Actress

Golden Boy

Bully

First Love

Betrayal

Forbidden Love

Ninety days. One summer contract. Plenty of time to make some questionable decisions. Tessa came to town for one thing: the role of a lifetime. Landing the lead is everything she's worked for, and if she can survive ninety days of rehearsals, performances, and backstage drama, it could change her future. Then she meets Danny. Tall, dark-haired, ridiculously attractive, and her leading man. A summer showmance with him wouldn't be the worst way to spend three months. There's just one problem: Danny barely seems to notice her. And the returning cast's inner circle has made it painfully clear that the new girl who walked in and landed the lead isn't welcome. Enter Jay. Blond, annoyingly fit, and absolutely not her type, the local dancer invites her paddleboarding after rehearsal. One chaotic afternoon turns into late nights, river bars, bad decisions, and Tessa constantly asking the same question: What are we doing tomorrow? With Jay, summer is easy. Backstage, it's anything but. Claire, Tessa's understudy, seems determined to prove Tessa never deserved the role in the first place. The whispers are getting harder to ignore. And just when Danny finally starts giving Tessa everything she thought she wanted, she discovers her leading man might not be on her side after all. Then there's the one rule Tessa absolutely cannot afford to break. No relationships between cast members. Getting caught could cost her the lead and the dream she came here for. Danny is supposed to be the guy she wants. Jay is supposed to be her safe haven. But somewhere between rehearsals, secrets, stolen nights, and a cast waiting for her to screw up, Tessa starts falling for the one person she never planned on wanting. The contract ends in ninety days. Getting caught could end her dream a lot sooner.

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63 Chapters
New Town, New Nemesis
I had been in this town for exactly twenty-three minutes and I already had three solid facts to work with: the theater was six blocks from my apartment, there was a coffee shop directly across the street from it, and I was, against all odds, going to like it here.This was a very good ratio of facts to minutes, honestly. I was proud of myself."Rehearsal starts at eleven tomorrow," the director said, dropping a key ring into my palm like he was handing off a relay baton. Two keys, one plastic tag, 3B written on it in permanent marker that had started to fade at the edges. "Company meeting, read-through, music, all the usual first-day stuff. You have the address?""Saved in my phone.""Good. You can walk it. Ten minutes, maybe fifteen if you're slow.""I don't walk slowly."He laughed like that was a personality trait he'd have to file away for later, which, fair, because it absolutely was. "There's a grocery store half a mile that way, laundry in the basement. Anything else you need?"
last updateLast Updated : 2026-08-29
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Splash Zone
Danny’s smile vanished so fast it was almost impressive."Oh," he said, tapping his thumb against his hip. "Actually, we’re kind of at capacity tonight. It’s mostly just returning cast catching up."Claire’s smile, on the other hand, widened into something blindingly fake. "Yeah, internal tradition! First night is strictly for old-timers."I let out a full, genuine laugh, clapping Danny once on the shoulder like he’d just delivered a top-tier stand-up routine. "At capacity for a lake? Incredible. Didn't realize security guards were enforcing shoreline quotas out here."Danny blinked, caught off guard by the fact that I wasn't shrinking into the floorboards."Enjoy your exclusive puddle, guys," I added with a breezy wave, turning on my heel and heading for the exit.I wasn't about to stand there looking pitiful. Rejection from a guy I’d known for eight hours was barely a minor inconvenience, but as I pushed through the heavy double doors into the cooling evening air, a tiny sting of fr
last updateLast Updated : 2026-08-29
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Social Survival
I woke up sore. Not injured, just sore in places that made no sense.Paddleboarding was stupid. I wanted to do it again immediately.My phone said 8:14. Rehearsal started at ten, giving me plenty of time to stay in bed until the last possible second.At 9:51, I was power-walking down the sidewalk with coffee in hand and my bag bouncing against my hip. I made it through the stage door at 9:56 and found half the company already stretching onstage.Jay was on the floor, folded over one leg like his spine was made of ribbon.“That looks upsetting,” I said, stopping beside him. “Are you aware humans aren't supposed to bend like that?”“Morning, Tess.” He sat up and switched legs. “You're drinking coffee ten minutes before dance call.”“I act. Barely move.”“You fell off a paddleboard twelve times yesterday.”“A strategic limit. Do we have a plan for tonight?”Jay smiled. “Live music. Bar near the river at eight.”“Perfect.”Someone called places. Jay got to his feet in one smooth motion th
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Irish Trash Can
Jay was leaning against his SUV when I walked out, exactly the way he’d been the two nights before. I climbed into the passenger seat already narrating the plan."So what exactly is the River Bar?" I asked. "Give me the pitch.""It's a bar. By a river.""Groundbreaking."We were five minutes into the drive when I spotted a gas station glowing neon against the dusk, a hand-painted sign in the window advertising FROZEN MARGARITAS."Oh my God," I said, twisting in my seat. "Jay, did you see that? Frozen margaritas at a gas station.""That's deeply concerning, not exciting.""It's the most exciting thing I've seen all day.""You had a whole rehearsal today. Dancing, blocking, Claire being Claire.""And now I've seen a gas station with a margarita machine. Banner day."He was laughing by the time we pulled into the River Bar's gravel lot, shaking his head.The bar was a huge wooden deck built out over the water, strings of lights overhead, and a small stage where a guy with an acoustic gui
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Creative Definitions
Jay was avoiding eye contact with me.Not dramatically. He wasn't hiding behind scenery or fleeing every time I entered a room, just suddenly very interested in stretching.I dropped my bag on the floor beside him with a heavy thud. “Are you being weird?”“No.”“You seem weird. You stretched yesterday and still managed to look at me.”Jay took his time reaching down toward his ankles before finally looking up. “Good morning, Tess.”“There you are.”His mouth twitched, just a fraction of an inch. Good. We were fine.“Company, hold up before we start,” the director called out from the front of the stage, his clipboard tucked under one arm, looking deeply unimpressed with humanity in general. “I can't believe I have to go over this already, but apparently I do.”That got everyone's attention. Dancers stopped mid-stretch, and the pianist paused his warm-up scales.“This company has a strict no-dating policy between cast members for the duration of your contracts,” the director said, pacin
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Rooftop, Interrupted
The coffee shop across from the theater had officially become mine.Not legally. I hadn't purchased it or threatened the owner into signing over the deed. But I'd been there four mornings in a row, which was more than enough for emotional ownership.Jay was already sitting at my table when I walked in."My table," I said, stopping beside him.He looked up from his phone, unbothered. "Good morning to you too.""You're sitting at my table.""You told me to meet you here.""Yes. At the coffee shop. I didn't say you could take liberties."He glanced around the mostly empty room, all four other tables gloriously unoccupied. "Should I move?""No. But I want it acknowledged.""Your table," he said solemnly, like he was signing a treaty."Thank you."I dropped into the chair across from him and pushed my sunglasses up onto my head. Jay's eyes narrowed the second he got a good look at me."What?""Nothing.""You did a face.""I didn't do a face.""You absolutely did a face." He picked his coff
last updateLast Updated : 2026-08-30
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Fluster Button
Danny touched my waist during rehearsal.That was not unusual. His character was supposed to touch my waist. What was unusual was the way his thumb moved once against my side before he let me go.Tiny. Completely unnecessary. Definitely not in the blocking.I looked at him. Danny was already facing the director like nothing had happened.Asshole.I smiled and turned back to my mark. Apparently, secretly kissing your costar made rehearsal significantly more entertaining. It also made it harder to remember that secretly kissing your costar could get you fired. But that sounded like a problem for Tomorrow Tessa, and she already had a growing list."Again," the director called.We ran the scene again. This time Danny behaved. Mostly.By the time rehearsal ended, I was sweaty, starving, and ready to do something that did not involve standing under fluorescent lights while someone yelled notes at me.Jay was stuffing dance shoes into his bag when I found him. "What are we doing?"He looked
last updateLast Updated : 2026-09-01
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Terrible Movie
I had changed my shirt three times.This was ridiculous for several reasons. First, Danny had already seen me in rehearsal clothes, which ranged from cute athletic wear to whatever I could find on the floor while running late. Second, he had already kissed me twice. Third, we were watching a movie.That was it. A movie at my apartment. Alone after dark, because being seen together outside the theater was apparently too dangerous now that we had both demonstrated a complete inability to follow one extremely simple company rule.I looked at myself in the bathroom mirror. "It's a movie."My reflection looked unconvinced. I was wearing tiny black shorts and a pink tank top. Casual enough that I hadn't obviously dressed for him, cute enough that I wouldn't be pissed at myself later. Perfect.The doorbell rang. I checked my hair, then immediately hated myself for checking my hair. "Coming!"Danny was leaning against the railing outside my apartment when I opened the door. Jeans, dark T-shir
last updateLast Updated : 2026-09-03
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Rebekah Who?
Costume fittings were one of my favorite parts of a new show. There was something deeply satisfying about standing on a little platform while three people circled you with pins in their mouths and discussed your body like you weren't there."Turn."I turned."Arms up."I lifted my arms.The costumer tugged at the bodice of my dress, frowned, stuck another pin somewhere dangerously close to my left breast, then stepped back. "Better."I looked at myself in the mirror. She was right. The dress was gorgeous. Deep blue, fitted through the waist with a full skirt that moved beautifully when I turned. My hair was pulled away from my face so they could decide what they wanted to do with it, and I could already picture the whole thing under stage lights."I love it," I said."Good. Because I'm not making you another one.""Then I love it even more."The costumer laughed.Claire was waiting for her fitting behind me. She'd been quiet for almost four full minutes, which should have concerned me
last updateLast Updated : 2026-09-05
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Tomorrow?
By the end of the first full stumble-through, I had died twice. Not in the show—personally.The first death occurred when I missed an entrance because I'd been changing shoes backstage and discovered the buckle on my left heel had apparently been designed by Satan. The second came twenty minutes later when I crossed stage right instead of stage left and nearly took out two ensemble members and a chair."Sorry!" I called."Keep going!" the director yelled back.I kept going. That was the thing about stumble-throughs: they weren't supposed to be pretty. They were where you discovered that the beautiful little pieces you'd spent days rehearsing didn't necessarily fit together once you tried to run them in order.At least that was what I told myself."It's stage left," Claire's voice came from the wings.I looked over. She smiled. "Just helping.""I know where it is.""Apparently."Oh, good. This again."Tessa," the director called, and I turned back toward the auditorium. "Don't worry ab
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