Spirited Away, Celebrity/Idol AU, panic
She was no more than three meters, four people, and ten heartaches away from the table where, in all his shining yet innocent glory, sat Haku alongside his bandmates, a musician, a lyricist, an idol, and the biggest celebrity crush Sen could have ever imagined for herself. Time after time she wiped her sweaty palms on her shorts and readjusted her The River God T-shirt Lin had bought for her at the merch stand. She’d waited for this moment for over a year in the literal sense, but also her whole lifetime in the way that sounded actually correct in her head. She wouldn’t let her sweaty pants disturb it. This is what she was born for, to come up to Haku from The River God, say hi, tell something funny, let him sign her poster and T-shirt, and, if her joke turns out funny enough, a marriage license. Maybe it was a bit far-fetched, but one thing she knew for sure: there was no chance for it to happen, ever, if the hand she gave him was wet like a rather godless river.
The line got shorter. Three people. Two. One.
Zero.
“H-Hi.” Her voice trembled, just like her hands did.
“Hi!” Haku smiled as he looked at her – actually looked at her! – and slightly tilted his head to the side. At this sight, a high-pitched squeak broke free from her throat. A flush of red spilling out onto her face followed. Haku’s smile remained as it was, though now it felt a bit more strained, his eyebrows a little bit more lifted. In his eyes, she could see the silent question, Are you one of the crazy ones?
“I-sorry. I just... The poster!” She reached her arms with the poster towards him but lost hold of it before he could take it from her. Slowly, it fell down onto the floor, prolonging her embarrassment. Sen crouched and while getting back up, she smashed into the edge of the table causing all of it to jump with her and several items skid down from the table top.
“Are you okay?” Haku asked.
“No! I mean, yes! I just-“ She pointed at him, then at herself, then at something in the back. “I should go.”
Before anyone could intervene or say something, she sprinted out of the room, pushing through the dozens of girls still waiting in the line. Maybe one of them would have a better chance at becoming Mrs. Haku River God. She was pretty much ruined.