didyoublushwashere:

I went to see Asuncion again tonight and I think the cast is having a bunch of fun during it’s last week! A lot of trying to make each other break and adorable ad-libs that garnered huge laughs from the audience. Also, Justin and Jesse seem even more affectionate with each other if it’s even possible. Lot’s of hair ruffling and face petting—even at the final bow Jesse grabbed/held Justin’s arm. THOSE TWO HAVE SUCH PALPABLE CHEM ALWAYS. 

Anyway, Kat/@takethewords—in mostly jest I think—suggested that I get something signed by him for her and I considered it but knew I wouldn’t because I had made a point not to meet him all along because of all the embarrassing and intrusive stories I see everyday in the tags; because of guilt that I might come off that intrusive or guilt that I got to see the show more than once and meet him while so many people who aren’t close to NY don’t get but really want that opportunitiy. It sounds hella irrational saying it but it is what it is! Tonight’s show was lighter, more exuberant than I remember it and I was in a good mood afterwards so I waited by the stage door (and decided to leave and came back about 2x before I literally shook my nerves off and was like WHAT THE HELL). 

Camille came out first and I didn’t see her come out but I heard my sister saying “you were wonderful!” and I turned around and she was talking to Camille! I shook her hand and introduced myself and echoed those thoughts. There were about 10 people outside and she waited with us for and ended up leaving with Jesse. When Jesse came out he was pretty much swarmed (and I mentally changed my mind again btw). One girl said she came to get a picture with him because all of her friends did and she was jealous and asked him to “do her a favor and smile reeeeeeal big,” he quipped that he didn’t know if he could (but did). Another girl brought him some kind of sweet desserts and asked for his email address (he gave her his talent agency email—“they send me everything”) and took like four pictures with him until one came out right. He signed and took pics with everyone (again!) and Camille saw the treats and goes, “what do you have there? yum!” and at one point she leaned over his shoulder in a not-so-subtle hint and was like “brrrrrr!!!!” They had a lot of inside jokes; very cute. 

Finally the dessert girl was finished and he did the same thing where he anticipated that I wanted to meet him so he approached me. This time I was ready and wanted to make the conversation flow more naturally instead of telling him that I was a fan or gushing or whatever so I extended my hand and introduced myself: “Hi! How are you, my name is Sandy.”/”Jesse; good; thank you so much; nice to meet you.” and my sister had a similar interaction with him. I asked him how he’s been enjoying this experience thus far and he said that some nights were good and others were bad, I told him that I really enjoyed the show and have been a couple of times and he immediately profusely thanked me and said “oh, yeah, yes, I thought so.” to which my sister and I both exchanged surprised looks with our eyebrows raised while he laughed. Kat had asked me to get something signed for her but I thought I’d one up it and attempt to ask for a video and I was like “I have a couple of friends who couldn’t make it out to see the show and are bummed about that. Could you maybe say a few words to them?” He said, “Yes, sure, sure, I could write something so that they could have it?” and I thanked him, he asked if I had a paper and pen and I realized I didn’t and my sister didn’t so he said he might and took his bookbag off onto the floor and was about to open it when one of the ushers told him he’d get a pen/paper from inside. I apologized if it was too much trouble and he assured me it wasn’t. While the usher was gone, he asked me where they’re from and I was like “one is in Canada and the other is in Florida” (I knew he’d make a joke about it, you’ll see) and he smirked—LIKE ACTUALLY SMIRKED—and tapped his chin thoughtfully and repeated my words a couple of times like a mantra (“one is in Canada and the other is in Florida, one is in Canada and the other is in Florida…”) and then asked where my sister and I are from and we said—in unison—Staten Island which earned us a laugh. The usher dude came back out with the paper and Camille grabbed a few fliers and said told Jesse he could use those to which he paid her no mind and she muttered to herself that she’d GREATLY prefer the fliers if it was her! He took the paper, which was pretty large and a flier for something else and folded it back in two and actually sat on the concrete steps of a brownstone next door (it was freezing and he is rapidly losing weight and my guilt was working a bit in over time tbh). He asked me for one of their names and I said “Kat with a K” and he wrote this out.  Then he flipped it over and asked again and I said “Ji” (@himpoepoe) and he asked me how to spell it and when I did he was like, “Ji? That’s so interesting. Ji.” And wrote this for her (which h e l p tbh). When he finished he handed them back to me and I thanked him. My sister then wanted a picture and while they were posing, I was taking it horizontally and she said, in arabic, “no! vertically!” I was looking through the screen and Jesse scrunched his nose and looked around all confused and amused-like and I couldn’t stop from laughing before saying that it was Arabic and that she had asked me to take the pic vertically. He seemed oddly enthused at that and asked us “what do you ethnically identify as?” and we told him Egyptian (which, side note: made my heart soar a bit because i’ve never had anyone be that considerate about my ethnicity before, ever, and I can’t count how many times I’ve been offended at dumbass “what are you” questions or conflations that have to do with being middle eastern or just the idea that race is a social construction; the fact that someone asked me how i define or identify myself in such a polite way kind of took me aback) and that too seemed interesting to him. We thanked him for the pic and I apologized again for being too much of a burden, told him it was a pleasure, and left. We also gushed for about three blocks and while hailing a cab for ten minutes! Basically he’s really good people—impossibly kind and engaging and accommodating!! My sister was surprised at how sweet he was again and was like…”but he’s not awkward?” while I yelled “THANK YOU!” in the middle of the street. We had fun!