To my Romeo, I am dying
I let go first, before he could notice I wanted to.
We ran the balcony scene twice that afternoon, both of us stiff, a full foot of space between us that had nothing to do with blocking and everything to do with the rules he'd just laid out. Alvarez kept stopping the scene, calling out for us to find the chemistry, and I nearly laughed both times, because chemistry had never once been our problem. The problem was sitting three rows behind him, taking notes in a notebook covered in cheer squad stickers, waiting for the right moment to use what she knew.