Damiano David // one shots

Eurovision (Part 6)

A/N: thinking about renaming this book and updating the description since it's turning into a one long story instead of one-shots. Hope everyone is enjoying it! Leave a comment if you have any ideas or wishes about what I should include in this story btw ;)

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When you got to the hotel you went straight to Ethan's room since that's where they agreed to meet. Thomas, Vic and the manager of the band where already there, all on their phones. They started talking to Damiano in Italian so you couldn't follow what was going on. You just knew that it was bad. You sat down on an empty chair, letting them figure out what to do while your phone kept blowing up but you just ignored that. You didn't want to do anything until you knew what the plan is.

After about 30 minutes the manager left and the four band members all came to you.

"Sorry that we meet for the first time under circumstances like that" said Victoria with a welcoming smile. Ethan and Thomas nodded in agreement, making you feel welcome. Still, you felt bad for this situation and blamed yourself. Apparently, someone took photos of you and Damiano last night in the afterparty and posted them online, making the whole internet blow up. The headlines ranged from "Italian winner celebrates with his secret girlfriend" to "Arrogance both on stage and backstage too – what we know about Damiano David". You knew about the backlash the whole band would get thanks to this - they'd paint Damiano as a cheater and ruin the image of the group. Before you could let your thoughts run any wilder Victoria spoke again.

"We spoke with our manager and Damiano said that he already told you about his situation. We think we know what'd be the best thing to do but we can't do it without you." She explained.

"What would that be? I'll do anything to make it up for this mess I got you all in." you said.

"What are you talking about Amore?" Damiano asked. "You're not the one to blame, it's on me that I wasn't careful enough, but you just have this effect on me I cannot control myself."

"We saw you two last night and kept an eye until you left – we haven't seen Damiano this happy in a long time. Sure, winning the Eurovision song contest added to it but we've all been saying that he needs to find someone who'd make him light up. I think we can all agree you're that person." Calmly said Ethan.

You were overwhelmed by all of this, so you didn't respond but you also didn't have to because Damiano started speaking soon enough.

"Bella, I know we just met but I can't pretend to be someone I'm not any longer. I am passionate on stage, passionate about our music but I'm even more so like that in my private life. It's true that these three have been on my nerves for a while now about meeting someone and I think I did. I don't believe in love at first sight, or at least I thought so until last night. We spoke and decided that it's time for me to tell the truth about my previous relationship and the fact that it ended a while back. I need to address the pictures of us too and that's where we need your help. It's absolutely up to you if you want me to say that it's you or to keep you anonymous, however, we're scared that if we don't say who you are they'll go on a witch hunt and we won't be able to avoid drama for a while." Damiano explained, holding your hand.

"We're so happy he met you and we can tell you already mean a lot to him since he opened up about his ordeal with the ex. It'd be very helpful if he could say who the girl in the picture is and avoid all the drama. Still, we completely understand if you don't want it." Thomas said.

You didn't need to think about it long – just like Damiano you were already developing feelings and wanted to help the whole band, too. Not wanting to go public would mean that their winning would be overshadowed by stupid drama and you didn't want them to go through that.

"I'm more than okay going public with this, you guys do and say anything you need to make this blow over faster." You said.

Damiano smiled, looking straight into your eyes but moments later you felt yourself being pulled into a hug by Victoria and the rest of the band.

"No wonder Dami is so into you already, you're an angel!" Victoria said, making the rest of you laugh.

They called their manager again, probably to write a statement about the situation so they could release it before the drama and conspiracies got out of hand. It took a while and during that time you answered the texts from your friends who also saw the pics online and recognized you. Once you were finished with that you watched them all work for a bit and listened to their conversations in Italian – you were in love with the language already.

After a bit Victoria approached you to ask for your Instagram so she could follow you and you saw that Thomas, Ethan and Damiano followed you too. You went through their profiles and then saw the statement that was published on the official band profile. It was short and explained the situation without going into too much detail. Before you could ask why they didn't go into more detail you saw that Damiano posted a statement too and that's when you teared up.