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V. Chosen

"What turns you on?" He asked again and I nearly choked with my food.
Damiano saw the worried look on my face and started laughing.

"I didn't mean it in that way. I meant it like, what drives you through life? What turns your ambitions on?" he said still laughing .

"You had me there. Well I don't know, maybe my love for music. The hope that I'll make it out of this city and become something I dreamed of since I was little." I said taking another bite of pasta. "What turns you on?"

He stroked his chin thinking about the answer. "The urge to be the best. Since I was a kid, I wanted to be a rockstar and winning the X-factor is one step on the ladder to success."

We laughed and talked about our passion for music a bit while finishing up or food. Damiano litterally begged me to do the dishes and what could I say. I let him.
After cleaning up I showed him my piano and we decided to sing a little while I played the instrumental.

Cause I got issues, but you got 'em too
So give 'em all to me and I'll give mine to you
Bask in the glory, of all our problems
'Cause we got the kind of love it takes to solve 'em
Yeah, I got issues
And one of them is how bad I need you

We finished the song and looked at each other like we were about to smash our lips together. Like there was nothing more important in the world right now.

"Can you.. um.. can you teach me how to play some of the chords?" He asked shyly.

It broke our little moment and I was embarrassed. "Yeah sure. This is C major." I showed him putting his fingers on the notes. Once again as our hands touched, we looked at each other and he got a little closer.

You're wondering why we didn't kiss, well his phone started ringing. I was a bit dissapointed, maybe we are not supposed to kiss. Maybe this was kind of a warning from the universe.

He got up to take the call and when he finished he started grabbing his stuff.
"My tires got slashed. And Thomas assumes it's Barbara. I'm sorry but I really have to go and report it to the police."

Wow that girl was really crazy. "Do you want me to come with you?"

"No, please. I don't want you to bring you into this mess. But I'll call you later to tell you what happened and tomorrow we could go out for a ride when I fix my car. Is that okay Marlèna?"

"Yeah, just call me when you finish things up in the police station. Okay?"

"I will." He said hugging me tightly and kissing my cheek. "Addio mia dolce Marlèna"

And he did call. It was his ex who slashed his tires, the police called her to pay him for the repair and she got a restraining order.
We hung out that day, and the day after tomorrow, and actually every day after that. I went to their rehearsals. Vic never stopped making jokes about me and Damiano. Ethan and I got pretty close, and I suggested he should meet Alessio. Thomas on the other hand wanted to hook up with my little sister who was living in Slovenia with my father. Well that was a mission impossible, but she was supposed to come for summer break and I promised to set them up.

Luca was still not answering my calls. Mateo told me he got a girlfriend and when we bury our axes and work things out we should have a band meeting.

Finally a month or two after that we finished the school year and it was the
X-factor finals. I was sitting in the first row of the audience waiting for then to perform.

Vic was really nervous, so were the others. But Damiano played it cool for the most part. They were performing their song Chosen. [An: I don't know what they performed for the finals, but even if they did not perform Chosen, imagine they did.]