A Life, Not a Performance
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Cue the Spotlight by multishive
Fandoms: Are You Afraid of the Dark? (TV 2019), High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (TV)
18 Feb 2026
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East High’s production of Rent is running on caffeine, late nights, and carefully called cues. Gabby can manage a show — she just isn’t sure she can manage dating someone who lives under a spotlight. Some things are louder offstage.
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- Part 1 of A Life, Not a Performance
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Blame It on the Alcohol by multishive
Fandoms: Are You Afraid of the Dark? (TV 2019), High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (TV)
11 Mar 2026
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One night, one party, and several questionable decisions later, Dani Lopez wakes up with a headache, a room full of witnesses, and the growing suspicion that alcohol might have made her a little too honest. Unfortunately for her, some things are harder to blame on the alcohol than others.
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- Part 2 of A Life, Not a Performance
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,527
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 6
- Hits:
- 136
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In Between Classes, In Between Us by multishive
Fandoms: Are You Afraid of the Dark? (TV 2019), High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (TV)
21 Feb 2026
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College changes everything slowly.
Gabby learns how to build a life around schedules, labs, and plans that stretch years into the future. Dani learns how to chase opportunity without knowing where it will land, how to live out of audition rooms and borrowed couches and the promise of maybe.
Somewhere between late-night study sessions and early morning callbacks, they start sleeping in the same bed every night. Somewhere between mismatched furniture and shared groceries, they stop pretending it’s temporary.
This is the story of how they learn to live together — not just share space, but share rhythm, fear, ambition, and love — long before weddings, children, or certainty ever enter the picture.
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- Part 3 of A Life, Not a Performance
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Are you Afraid Of Weddings? by multishive
Fandoms: Are You Afraid of the Dark? (TV 2019), High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (TV), Glee (TV 2009)
20 Feb 2026
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Dani is not a bridezilla.
She is simply a woman with vision, standards, and a seventeen-tab wedding spreadsheet.
Gabby thought they were planning a marriage. Dani is producing an event. Somewhere between a six-tier cake debate, a color palette crisis, and Kourtney and Carlos declaring war over table linens, Gabby starts to wonder if she’s marrying her fiancée — or starring in her show.
Cold feet, dramatic friends, blunt moms, and a second cake that absolutely did not need to exist, they might actually figure out what forever is supposed to look like.
Probably before the ceremony.
Hopefully.
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- Part 4 of A Life, Not a Performance
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Before We Learned the Language by multishive
Fandoms: Are You Afraid of the Dark? (TV 2019), High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (TV)
10 Apr 2026
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They thought they knew how to build a life together.
They had survived college, careers, distance, and choosing each other out loud. They believed love, communication, and planning would be enough.
Then Eli arrived — and nothing spoke the language they knew.
This is the story of Dani and Gabby becoming parents for the first time. Of Olivia learning how to share space and attention. Of a baby who doesn’t respond the way the books promised he would. Of fear, denial, adaptation, and the slow, painful realization that love doesn’t stop at expectation — it begins where expectation ends.
Before routines.
Before diagnoses.
Before they learned how to translate the world for their son.This is what came first.
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- Part 5 of A Life, Not a Performance
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in the quiet, in the noise by multishive
Fandoms: Are You Afraid of the Dark? (TV 2019), High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (TV)
20 Mar 2026
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Gabby Lewis likes things that make sense. Dani likes things that shine. Between them, they’ve built a life that does both.
Married, busy, and very much in love, they’re raising two kids who couldn’t be more different: Olivia, sharp and observant and learning how to take up space; and Eli, their youngest, autistic, nonverbal, most days humming through the world in his own rhythm.
This isn’t a story about tragedy or inspiration. It’s about AAC devices on kitchen counters, early morning runs, humming at dinner, firm squeezes instead of soft hugs, grandparents who adjust without fanfare, and a house that makes room for everyone exactly as they are.
Slice-of-life. Sensory-aware. Soft but not sentimental.
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- Part 6 of A Life, Not a Performance
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Cue the Happily Ever After by multishive
Fandoms: Are You Afraid of the Dark? (TV 2019), High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (TV)
21 Mar 2026
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A Disney trip is supposed to be rides, fireworks, and snacks shaped like mice. For Dani Lopez and Gabby Lewis, it’s also headphones, careful pacing, VIP guides, and learning the rhythm of a park through the needs of two very different kids. Olivia wants to see everything, Eli wants to watch the fish forever, and somewhere between EPCOT science exhibits and fireworks over the castle, Dani realizes the magic of the trip isn’t the park — it’s the four of them figuring it out together.
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- Part 7 of A Life, Not a Performance