music - Damiano David

6

"Name please?" A security guard says, holding a large clipboard in his hands.

"your joking right?"

"erm Lauren Davies and-"

"Quinn Barton, nice to meet you" she winks, wiggling her eyebrows at Lauren.
He looks at the girl for a second, before nodding at the two and letting them into the building.

The two girls walk into the bar, Flashing disco lights with a large stage and speakers all around the room. all performers from all the different countries dancing around the bar and on the dance floor. They were all dressed up in shirts and dresses, all completely different to their Eurovision outfits.

"oh dayum, looks like i'm getting railed toNIght" Quinn says, shimmying her way over to a group in the center.

"you go girl!" Lauren shouts to her bestfriend, who was already talking to the Swedish performer.

"she seems fun", Lauren turns around behind her, a girl with short, blonde hair with a drink in her hand, "Elena Tsagrinou, i don't believe we've met yet"

"Lauren davies, nice to meet you! your Cyprus right?" She says, the girls both walking up to the bar.

"you know your stuff then, i don't think your friend is as familiar?" looking over at the girl, who was already shaking her butt around with a few other of the back up dancers for Malta.

"she's...confident?" lauren says, "she's great though, she really helped me out of my comfort zone."

"must be nice having her here with you then, who knows where mine is, she's the type of person to not answer their phone for weeks because their in a whole different country, doing shots with random men" Elena laughs, "it's cool though, once again, without her, i wouldn't be where i am today either"

The two take their shots from the counter, clinking their small glasses and drinking the strong liquor, a small cheer arising from the girls.

"alright alright! Eurovision 2021 baby! who's ready for some KARAOKE!" The man at the computer says, a shout of cheers coming from all of the crowds.

"okay okay! first round, lucky dip! ill draw two names from this special hat and if your called, get your ass up here! got it?"

Everyone cheers yet again, the man at the front shaking the hat infront of him.

"okay, first name we have, ELENA TSAGRINOU from CYRPUS!" he shouts, The girl raising her eyebrows at Lauren, "and elena will be singing with...STEFANIA FROM GREECE, alright ladies pick your song!"

"alright ive got to go, speak later yeah?" she says, running of towards the stage.

Lauren spots her bestfriend walking over to her from the crowd, a small drop of sweat at her forehead.

"ill tell you what, Malta girls? yeah they can fucking dance"

in the next hour and a bit, a lot of performers go up onto the stage, Lauren performing once with Moldovas singer, Natalia Gordienko. Now, she was yet again at the bar, almost slightly more tipsy than the last time she'd been there.

"ALRIGHT, we see the hat yet again! THIS time we haaave, BLAS CANTÓ from ESPANOL!" Lauren spits up her drink slightly, her eyes shooting to the stage where she saw Blas staring right at her, a hopeful gleam in his eye.

"ooo SPICY! you know, my mum always said to me, a spanish guy means a-" Quinn starts, before Lauren grabs onto her shoulders, looking her right into the eye.

"Quinn listen to me! if my name gets called, i'm done, i'm screwed, the trigger would have been pulled okay? so i need to get out of here before-"

"and the lovely Blas will be singing with, OO LAUREN DAVIES FROM THE UK!"

"no no no!" She says, crouching down on the floor, bringing quinn with her, "okay Quinn, you know how that one time you were stuck on that date in Romania with the guy with the bad breathe you didn't want to be on so i switched in your place and made up that excuse your hamster died and after i said you owed me?"

"i mean...yeah?"

"well how's that time to pay that dept, look ethans at the front just waiting to hear you sing, so get your ass up there" she says, crawling away to the back entrance.

"no need too fear Blas! your saviour is here!" she hears her bestfriend yell, the mic making a loud noise through the speaker.

When out of sight, she stands up and brushes the dirt of her knees, walking out the entrance and leaning on the hard wall, the familiar scent of cigarettes lingering.

"you want one?" She looks to her left, Damiano holding out a cigarette infront of her, "helps the stress"

"no i'm alright" she says, Damiano putting the cigarette away, "you should stop though"

"stop what?" he asks, inhaling another load.

"that" she says, nodding towards the smoke, "gives you cancer"

"don't worry, i'm Italian, dosnt affect me" he laughs, holding it between his two fingers, "no i know i should, my mamma tells me the same"

"well you should listen to your mother!" Lauren laughs, crossing her arms over her chest, "i haven't heard you sing tonight"

"trust me, i know, tell that stupid hat" he says, treading on the cigarette, "well i mean next round their-"

before he could finish, all of the performers start to walk out of the entrances, some laughing and others looking more slightly concerned.

"wha- what's going on?" Lauren asks, Elena.

"well..it was finland's turn to sing but turns out, they were partying a little to hard and well..they started a fire" she says, trying to hold back her laughter.

"a fire? now that is rock.." Damiano Laughs, walking off to find his band, "bye lauren!"

Last to leave was Quinn, who was walking out with the Finland group all surrounded her.

"alright boys, see you tomorrow!!" she shouts, the boys waving at her as they walk onto the high street.

"oh my oh my, now that, was what you call a sexy night"

"so sexy"

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