(Erica's POV)

It was the day after the fight between Josh and Ben, and the studio had given us a day off to go to a premiere for a movie they had just released. 

Josh and I had front row seats, and I was pretty excited. I checked my phone impatiently, waiting for a text from Josh saying he was outside to pick me up. I sat there for about five more minutes before a honk came from outside, and I rushed outside. 

"You're late-" I started to admonish him, but then he smiled, and I stopped. He was wearing a classic black and white tux and looked wonderful. I got in, and 30 minutes later we were there. We had to take runway pictures, and I forced a smile and posed.

When we finally got to our seats, almost as soon as we sat down, Josh's phone went off. "You got to silence it," I told him. He quickly did so, and then the movie started. It was actually not a bad movie, and I watched it with thorough interest. I laid my head against Josh's shoulder and sat there comfortably. 

Ben arrived a little late, in the last hour of the movie, and plopped into his seat right next to me. He was wearing a midnight blue tux with sparkling white dots that looked like stars, and a pitch-black tie. He had his hair swept back, and his green eyes shined with happiness. I quickly turned back and leaned against Josh. I could almost feel him smirking at Ben. 

As the movie went on, Josh put an arm around me, and I heard the click of cameras flashing, and I knew this would probably be on the cover of some gossip rag who didn't have anything better to publish. 

Towards the end of the movie, Josh dropped his phone, so I picked it up. It went off. Josh reached for it and said, "Don't read that!" I looked at him suspiciously and read the text.

 It said "Joshy boo, r u ready for our date tonight? Ditch that loser Erica in time for our 1st month anniversary!" I raised an eyebrow, and keeping my voice down asked "The first-month anniversary? Josh, we've been dating for four months. The past month you've been seeing someone else?"

I shoved the phone back into his hands, slapped his face, and walked off to the free bar. I knew I would need it tonight.

(Ben's POV)
When I came back from the bathroom, after being gone for literally two minutes, Erica was gone, and Josh had his heads in his hands, with a large red mark on his face. I'm guessing Erica gave him that. 

When the movie was over, I avoided the people who were asking me to dance at the afterparty, and headed home. I sprawled out on the couch and flipped to Disney+. I felt like watching an original and madly belting out the lyrics to it. 

I decided on watching HSMTMTS right after Ricky in the trailer said: "It's about Zac Efron dancing with a basketball." 

A few minutes later I was screaming at the TV "RICKY NOOOO!!!!! GO GET YOUR GIRL!! WHYYYYYYY?!!!!" because Nini had officially ended things with Ricky. I instantly cleared my schedule so I could binge-watch the whole thing. I rewatched the first episode so many times, I could say Ricky's entire speech audition thingy from memory. 

And then I would jam out on the guitar with Ricky singing along to "I think I kinda you know." I always ended up screaming "RICKY NOOOO!!!! YOU HAD SUCH A PERFECT CHANCE!!!" at the TV. My castmates were probably freaked out.

I binge-watched the entire thing, screaming at the TV the entire way. When Ricky and Nini were about to kiss during tech rehearsal, and Big Red interrupted them, I screamed at the TV "BIG RED I WILL MURDER YOU IN YOUR SLEEP! NOOOOOOO!!!!!!" 

Mike walked in right as I was saying this, and burst out laughing at me. Then, quickly getting sucked into the show, he made me restart the entire thing, and binge-watch if from the beginning. We ended up finishing it, and we both cheered, clapped, and screamed in excitement when Ricky told Nini he loved her.

We were hardcore HSMTMTS fans now, and we ended up trying to recreate a few scenes ourselves. Right as we were finishing the Stick to the Status Quo number, Erica burst into the doorway, mumbling something unintelligible. 

I raised an eyebrow at Mike. It was 3:00 in the morning, and Erica had shown up on my doorway. Weird. Then she started giggling. Oh no. Erica is drunk. What the actual heck?