music - Damiano David

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Lauren rolls her eyes at the screen, dropping her phone back into her lap. Quite frankly, she did not want to talk to Damiano, and was confused why he was still talking to her even after she'd found out about everything that happened.

"question" Quinn starts, "is there a reason Ethans texting me saying you invited Damiano and the band round to yours in a bit?"

"son of a bitch" Lauren says under her breathe, rubbing her eyes, "i didn't invite him over, he invited him self"

"that's hot" Zara laughs, "what? yous arnt dating anymore!"

"we never dated Zara" Lauren sighs, "he's engaged, remember?"

"i'm entitled to a married man!"

"if there coming round soon, we've got to clean that room up!" Quinn says, climbing of the wall, "it's a STATE"

"you can say that again"

The two girls climb of the wall after Quinn, Lauren looking up at the sky.

"you coming Lauren?"

"yeah i'll be there in a sec"

"alright"

A small smile appears on her face as she looks all around her, a few starts appearing into the dark sky. The city starts to glow up, the lights on all buildings lighting up for the long night ahead of it.

Lauren steps off the wall herself, the feeling of a few hairs on the back of her neck standing up.
she walks back into the building and down the flights of stairs, deciding not to take the lift down.

She could hear the three girls from a floor up, walking down their corridor as the three are leaned up around the door.

"finally! okay we've all got to tackle a part of the room" Quinn says as the eye walk through the door, "who wants what"

"if you think i'm cleaning out a toilet, your fucking dreaming" Nat says, sitting down onto the bed.

"alright then, Nats not on bathroom duty" She says, "erm i'll take bathroom then"

"ooo i'll put away all the beauty stuff" zara says, rushing over to the clothes and Curlers on the floor.

"ill go light some candles and shit" Nat sighs, grabbing her lighter out of her bag and putting the tv back into life.

"ill just...tidy?" Lauren says, walking over to the beds and pulling the sheets around the sides.

"you do know it's probably gonna look really weird how the whole room is gonna be spotless?" Lauren says, fluffing up a few of the pillows.

"no...we'll just say we had a clean up after we got back?" Quinn shouts from the bathroom.

"that's what we're doing anyway" Nat says, holding up a lipstick shade up, "look, we're all dressed up anyway from going to the rooftops, which they know about may i add, just tell them when we got ready we put everything away like normal people to yeah?"

"fair enough"

"sure"

"listen to the lady"

Suddenly Zara begins to walk all over the room, spraying a mist around every section of it.

"hey that mine!" Lauren says, trying to grab it out of her hands.

"i know that silly" she says, "but this is your favourite SO Damiano will be able to smell you for months!"

"exactly! my favourite! once i run out that's it, i cant get anymore"

"why not?"

"they don't sell it! now stop spraying it you've made the whole US army smell like they've just walked out of a perfume shop"

"okay okay, i'll stop"

After the girls finish cleaning, they decide to change out of their dressing up clothes and into something a lot more casual.

They all got into leggings, joggers and t-shirts, grabbing a few jumpers because of how cold they were.

"oi someone help me-"

The girl is interrupted by a knock at the door, the others looking each other with widened eyes.

"who's getting the-"

"my legs are hurting, let us in Lauren Davies" they hear from behind the door, Zara running out of the bathroom and to the door.

"your too- your not Lauren, are we at the wrong place?"

"oo your all fitter in real life" zara says, Lauren covering up a small laugh, "come come, the others are through here"

Zara emerges from around the corner, the four Italians following closely behind.

"ciaoo" Vic says, laying down next to Lauren on her bed, "who are the other two", She whispers.

"oh yeah uh that's zara" Lauren says pointing at the girl, "and that Nat"

"yo"

"hiya!"

"that's thomas, Ethan, and Damiano" Vic says, "i'm vic"

Lauren looks around the room to see everyone, Nat and Thomas were sat on the sofa whilst Zara sits on the edge of Quinn's bed where her and Ethan were leaned up on the backboard.

"budge over" Damiano says, Vic and Lauren moving their legs off the edge of the bed so he could sit down.

"if you two are gonna act all cute this whole evening i will leave" Nat says to Quinn, Ethans hands intertwined with hers.

"i second that" - "where do i sign?"

"leave them alone" Lauren laughs, "they're in loove"

"i guess we are" Ethan says, looking at the girl, "semi finals tomorrow, who you betting on?"

"finland 100%" Thomas says, playing with his glasses in his hands, "greece is cool as well, with all the green screen and shit"

"Bulgaria's is sad" Zara says, Lauren nodding in agreement, "and that switzerland guy, like damn he's got some vocals"

"see we're lucky, we don't have to go through the stress of getting through the semis AND the final" lauren says, pulling out her phone, "i don't even think the UK would get into the grande final without the big five thing"

"what? your songs great what are you on about?"

"oh no, i'm not saying my songs shit, i love it" Lauren laughs, "the jury hates the uk, i can hear it now "zero points from the jury!"

"i can't disagree" Damiano says, "i mean, you did come last in 2019.."

"sorry mr top five every year" Quinn laughs, "as long as we don't come last this year, it's better than nothing"

"you've basically just got to get a lot of public votes...which, should be easy"

"it's not that hard for you now is it mr David, you can just, run your hands through your hair and look at the camera directly with your smouldering eyes and bang, every man and woman is voting for you" Nat says, filing down her nails on the sofa next to Thomas, "you know that, don't you Lauren"

Lauren looks at the girl, Vic letting out a snort next to her.

"yes i do" She mutters, "yes, i, do"

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thank you for 70k reads besties <3

ALSO
since like the grande final n shit is coming up soon, i want you to know i've got my outfit from zigman_official on instagram! he has so many amazing outfits and so much variety! If you find another outfit maybe on pinterest or a different account, feel free to send them or put the link down so i can see!! <3

-L