Do I have to know who you are? / Måneskin / Damiano David

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It's been two days since Damiano and his bandmates won ESC.
Their worlds got turned upside down and now they're famous.
It's still unbelievable for all of them.
They are finally able to fully live their dream which is living from music.

They're already planning a tour through every country in Europe.
It looks like it couldn't be better for them. Everything seems perfect. But then there's Damiano.

Of course, he lives an amazing life. He is able to make the music he loves with the best friends he could ever wish for and that makes him more than happy.

But the one thing he deeply wishes for is to find someone who loves him, not for his fame or his success. He also doesn't want some of those TikTok girls that simp for him because of how he dresses. He wants to find the one person he can become old with. He wants to feel those butterflies in his stomach when he makes her nervous, he wants to go and watch the stars with her and he wants to drive through the night jamming to music.

Maybe this sounds too normal or even boring for the kind of life he is living but that's what he wants: a normal girl who truly loves him for who he is.

He never had a relationship because normally girls only want fun with him and nothing more and that's something that really breaks him but nobody knows.

And now that he is very well known it will be even harder to find someone like this.

Currently, he's already back in Italy in some hotel room in a little village near the coast. Thomas, Victoria, Ethan and him are planning on staying here for a couple of weeks. Mostly because it will be easier to coordinate and plan interviews and stuff when they're all together but also they don't want to bring their families in danger and in this village aren't a lot of people that could possibly know them.

Everyone is chilling in Ethans room and writing on some songs for their new album but Damiano just looks out of the window and can't really concentrate.

"Hey Damiano, Damiano hey, earth to Damiano earth to Damiano" Victoria shouts while waving her hand in front of his eyes

"Yeah yeah I'm here what's up" he answers

"How do you like the chords Thomas just played?" she asks with a smirk

"uhm yeah they're great but I would probably change the last two" Damiano responds. He obviously didn't listen to any of them so he just said something.

"He didn't he play anything." Victoria laughs "Where the hell are you with your thoughts?"

"He's probably somewhere in another galaxy and just discovered aliens" Ethan adds

The three of them burst out in laughter but Damiano stays quiet still in his thoughts.

"Hey Damiano" Thomas tries to get his attention

"hm?" Damiano replies not even facing him because he's still watching out of the window

"Since you obviously aren't in the mood to write songs right now why don't you make yourself useful and get us coffee."
Thomas says

"Yeah I think that's a good idea I saw a little coffee down the road when we arrived yesterday" Ethan adds

"Okay, I'm going what do you want?" Damiano stands up absolutely not in the mood to go out right now and kinda pissed but at least the others can't annoy him when he's outside

"the usual" Victoria replies

"just an Americano" Ethan says

"same for me" Thomas agrees with Ethan

Damiano takes his wallet and phone and walks out of the hotel.
Luckily there are no fans since it's pretty early in the morning because as much as he lives them that's one of the last things he wants to deal with right now.

After a few minutes of walking, he spots the coffee shop Ethan mentioned.
It looks like painted out of a fairytale with all the olive trees next to it.
Damiano enters it. Nobody there except for a girl who's standing behind the counter. He only sees her back but her hairs she put in a ponytail look flawless.

You can hear a bell ring as soon as he takes a few steps into the coffee shop.
The girl turns around and smiles at Damiano.

"Hi what do you want?" she asks

Damiano stays quiet. He is unable to speak. He just stares at her. Her face, her eyes, her smile everything is perfect. She looks like an angel that just fell from heaven.
She only said a few words but he's already addicted to her lovely voice, he wants to her it over and over again. He can't get enough

He looks at the name tag she's wearing with her work clothes.
Luna, her name is Luna like the moon.

"Hello? What can I get you?" Luna asks again while laughing

"oh uhm yeah sorry can I please have two Americanos, one Caramel Macchiato and one plain black coffee normal size?" Damiano says.
He's nervous. He never is nervous.

The girl turns around again and starts making the coffees. Damiano just watches her.

Suddenly two boys enter the coffee shop:

"Hey, can me and my boyfriend please get a picture we are both huge fans of you" one of them asks.

Damiano takes the phone and makes a couple of pictures with them before the couple leaves the shop again.

Luna is curious why the two boys wanted a picture with her customer and confronts Damiano with it:

"Hey uhm I'm aware of the fact that it's absolutely not my business but why did they want to take pictures with you?"

"oh they were just fans" Damiano answers

"Fans? Do I have to know who you are?"
Luna asks with a smile on her face

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(970 words)