Hearts Alight

Millie

"Millie!!! You have to go with me!! If you do, I'll buy you all you can eat tonight!! You just have to go with! Even if you don't want the guys, you can always find tons of cute girls there!! PLEASEEEEEEEE" I can hear her incessant rambling from in the closet where I locked her in earlier. i can hear Merica pounding on the door.

"If you don't let me out, I will break down this door and you'll have to pay for it!!" Son of a... That little... She's good. I sigh and walk to the closet where I kept her.  I grab the chair that I used to block the handle from moving. I see her stumble out after removing the chair. Merica stumbles and falls on the floor, her dress sliding up her thighs. God, she's so cute. I love having a best friend like her. I'm hitting on her, but truthfully, I do it to everyone, not just her. If I see a pretty girl, or guy, I will go up and talk to them and complement them. It's just the way I am. Weird, right?

I hold out my hand and help her up, my dress bunching up at my breasts. My dress is just a plain white tank top dress with a bow in the back. I love my dress and I really hope to the gods, goddesses, and moon that no one fucks it up tonight.

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I grab my black hoodie from the car once we get there, sure that it was going to get cold. Unfortunately, it's outside and I don't like London weather sometimes. I link arms with Merica and walk over to find a spot to stand. She insisted we come early so we could get a good spot without having to wait in line for too long and it actually worked. Albeit most people getting here an hour early, she decided to go for three. We got to stand there for three hours waiting for people to show up. I brought a book with me and I decided to read that while we waited. 

About halfway through my book, the concert starts. The boys walk out onto stage. I hear the loud screeches of fangirls for miles and it burns my ears. They're all pushing me and Merica, so much so that Merica stumbles and I nearly couldn't catch her in time. I turn back and glare at the punkish looking girl who shoved her way to the front. Her pierced lips give me a satisfied grin. My face relaxes and I smile back to her. I already know what my retort will be.

"Hey. You'd best watch where you're going. If you push her again, I'll make sure you're in the hospital for a month." She took my evil psychotic grin as a warning. Piercing girl flinches and backs away, looking scared. I turn back to Merica and help her up. She gives me a smile. She knew my personality and psychopath is not among those traits. Her long blonde hair was a bit tousled from the near-fall and I reach out to fix it. Once I was satisfied, I gave her a nod and put my headphones on. 

I look up on the stage and see the guitarist staring at me with confusion. I think the main guitarists' name was Christopher, but I'm not exactly sure. I just know he's one of the guitarists, however seeing as the other guitarist was covering his face with a black hood and had ripped black jeans with the combat boots, I'm guessing he wasn't Shadow. If I were to describe Christopher, I would say he was a boy who wears cute and soft outfits. While Christopher and Shadow are nothing alike, they are supposedly best friends. You know, opposites attract and everything. I don't see it. The bond looks fake to me. He really has bright bluish gray eyes though. His hair's cute and floppy too. He gives me a laughing grin and turns to Shadow, who seems to be looking at me too. Kaden, the lead singer, notices this and gives the two of them a look. I'm so confused...

Merica looks at me and squeals with joy. She gives me her they-like-you look. I give her the wtf-no look, but she brushes it off with a pff. I hate her sometimes. At the end of the concert, they hold signings of their CDs and I know Merica will want me to stick with her the entire time. I'm really regretting tonight.

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In line, Merica won't stop squealing with joy and excitement, but not because she gets to meet her favorite people from Hearts Alight but because she's a huge otaku who loves shipping me with everyone. She wouldn't stop talking about how I'm going to marry Christopher and have millions of babies with him, so I turned on my headphones and started listening to my music. I like what I did with the piano in this song. I took inspiration from Rolling Girl, a vocaloid song, and created an entire sad song out of the sixteenth notes that were used at the beginning that actually turned out really well. It's very calming. It was so sad at the start that I used to cry every time I heard it. I stopped after I cried during a recording of the singing part. I didn't want to break down while making another recording for my followers on my YouTube channel, so I kept practicing with it and finally got it down. This was a hard song both emotionally and physically.

Before I knew it, we had already gotten to the front of the line. The boys are very distracted trying to get the CDs from breaking and toppling over. I hold back a laugh and the urge to help them. Merica gives me a wink when Christopher had his blue-gray eyes staring into mine. His face went alight, like he wanted to see me again. Shadow comes around the corner shirtless and I turn bright red. It's not like I haven't seen my fair share of naked men, but for some reason, it felt wrong to look at him shirtless. I turn my head just to see him shaking his head while putting on a shirt. I hear Shadow sigh and look at Christopher, who gives him a smirk. Shadow yells to Kaden, the lead singer and head of the group. Kaden turns the corner, seeing me and immediately smiles. At me. I am really getting freaked out now. They're acting like they know me. I don't know them, so what's their deal? I give an awkward smile. Over to Merica. She gives me a deep frown. All I see from her is a shake of the head, like she's disappointed in me or something. Did I do something wrong? Did I forget something? Well, turns out, my answer is right in front of me.

"Hey! You're Milliana Relan, right?" Kaden is speaking to me. And he knows my name. I start to freak out and right when I'm about to leave, Merica slaps me in the face to get my attention.

"You're a YouTuber! Ugh, you do this all the time. How do you forget you're a YouTuber!?! Sometimes you make me so mad. Yes, she is Milliana Relan, but her friends call her Millie. I'm Merica. Merica Linera. It is very nice to meet you." She gives me a self-satisfied look before turning all her attention to the boys. I sit on the sidelines, listening to my music. About ten minutes later, it's the next person's turn. I completely forgot that Merica was prone to leaving me places because three hours later, she still didn't come to grab me. Well, guess I'm sleeping out here for the night. Just as I'm starting to get comfortable in my spot against the tree, I hear a noise from behind me. I stand up and see Shadow there.

"Hey. Uh, why are you against a tree looking like you're trying to sleep?" He sounds amused and genuinely curious so I humor him.

"Meh. Not the first time Merica forgot she brought me on her little escapade...Ooo, she's a cutie." I point over to a girl in a black dress with black stiletto boots on. Shadow gives me that look. The holy-shit-you're-lesbo look. I feign offense. He looks like he feels really bad. Now I feel bad. I start to laugh to show him I was joking.

"Nah, you're fine. Yeah, I'm into girls too. I'm not too...fond of men these days. They aren't too fond of me either." I give another laugh, but this time it was a bit forced and I know he heard it too. I look away awkwardly before starting to walk away. Before I could though, Shadow grabs my hand, looking a bit shy at first.

"You're welcome to catch a ride with the four of us you know. Devon shouldn't care too much and I'm sure Kaden would be all for it. We could tell you how we started. Exclusive offer." I didn't really want to sleep in cold London weather, so I accepted. I am in for one long night, aren't I?