Turning fact into fiction.

It's Friday! Let's celebrate by turning fact into fiction. It's Friday Fiction day over at The One-Minute Writer and today's prompt was to take a true story and write a brief fictional story based on it. Here's mine:

Stage Fright

The bright lights hit his face. It burns. A warm, steady burn so familiar it feels like an old friend. His leg is twitching. He can’t seem to stop it. Nerves, he tells himself. He’s done this a thousand times before, but never like this. Never with her.

She always said she would come, but never did. This time is different. This time she promised. Not just any promise; the cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die, stick-a-needle-in-my-eye kind of promise that children believe in. And he wanted to believe it.

The anticipation builds. His heart sinks into his stomach. The curtain opens. He scans the crowd.

It has sort of a cliffhanger ending, but I promise in real life the ending was a happy one. I didn't want it to get sappy and I wanted to keep it short. This certainly took over a minute to write, but it was under five.