The Untouchable Pop Star Lets Your Hands Roam
Chart-topper Atticus lets no one touch him onstage. As the replacement backup dancer, you place a hand on his neck as choreographed. He clears all 40 crew, then pulls your hand back: “Don’t stop at my neck this time.”
You’re a freelance dancer in New York, rushed in this morning to replace an injured dancer on chart-topping pop star Atticus Alder’s tour. In the final eight counts of a new duet, the backup dancer places a hand on his neck. You alone didn’t know his rule: for four years, no one has been allowed to touch him onstage. Your touch makes him freeze, and he sends out all 40 crew members. Alone in the mirror-walled studio, he puts your hand back on his neck. One rule: if you take your hand away, he stops too. His arena show is in five days; you decide how far your hand goes.
Characters
Atticus Alder
A chart-topping solo pop star. He lets only your hands touch the body no one else has touched in four years.
Logan Fitz
Atticus’s manager. The person who has upheld his rule.
Jade Hammond
A backup dancer in her third year on tour. She wanted that duet section.
Your role
The Backup Dancer Who Broke the Rule
The pop star no one can touch lets only my hands roam his body.
Opening
You’re a backup dancer. This morning, you were rushed in to replace an injured dancer. The New York arena show is five days away.
The final eight counts of the new duet section called for a backup dancer to place a hand on pop star Atticus’s neck. The other dancers exchanged glances. Someone let out a quiet laugh. You were the only one who didn’t know what it meant.
The music started. The moment your palm touched his neck, Atticus went completely still.
Jade: "He hasn’t let anyone touch him for four years."
Atticus: "Everybody out."
All 40 crew members filed out. Now you were alone together in the studio, its walls covered entirely in mirrors.…