music - Damiano David

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friday 21st of may
one day till the grande final

One day had passed since the night with Damiano, and thankfully Lauren had managed to avoid him since then. Yesterday morning she had rehearsals before the second semi final and got to talk to a few that would be competing that evening.

Lauren, the girls (except Quinn) and the lads all watched the second semi final together, finally getting to know who she would be against in the grande final. Yesterday and was also able to enter her new dressing room in the bubble, the other countries that were guaranteed a spot having their names glued onto the door.

Her main makeup artist, (Riley) and main hair stylist Brian had all explored the room yesterday, it had one large vanity and wardrobes with hangers, sofas and mirrors dotted around the room with the plants, draws and air conditioning.

Today she was meeting up with her team to discuss her look in the evening with a few rehearsals with the props and staging in between, but apart from that, Lauren had a few hours off in between to do what ever she wanted.

It was now 11:38 In the morning, Zara and Nat had disappeared to explore the city of Rotterdam, whilst Quinn decided to stay back and join Laurens day.

"alright so todays a bit more busy that we planned" Mia says to the girls as they walk around the arena.

"wait what? I thought just a few rehearsals and then a thing with Riley and Brian?"

"well yeah it was meant to be that" Mia starts, "but turns out you have to do a few interviews in the press room only for an hour, and then we need to practice the flag parade which is where everyone will find out the running order."

"but don't we already know were number nine?" Quinn asks as they enter the back way to the stage.

"yeah the big five, plus the Netherlands know, but that's it...oh girls, let me show you where you'll go tomorrow yeah. okay so here's where you'll get-..."

Mia continued to show the two girls on where everything would take place backstage, from where she'd get her mic to where she would wait before she was on.

"alright i think there doing the flag parade first because the hosts have to practice" mia says, "ah, yes, here everyone is, okay go over to mark and let him know your here"

"MARK LAURENS HERE" Quinn shouts, a few people looking over at the three.

"thanks quinn, what a great voice you have"

"alright! everyone's here, contestants gather round please" Mark says, groups of people walking over to the man standing on a block.

"right i'm gonna read the running order, remember where you are cause i won't repeat it, but your manager has been notified if so" Mark says, holding up his clipboard, "but before that, i'm gonna explain how this is gonna work"

"stage screen will open, dj will be there on his platform, here are your eurovision bla bla bla" mark says, really emphasising his hand gestures, "first ten countries will be announced, your countries gets five seconds, and you get three second screen time"

"hosts will do their singing bit, then the next 10 go, nickis doing her speaking bit and then we get a section from the dancers, last 6 contestants and then the hosts come through, got it?" Mark says, raising his eyebrows at the group infront of him.

"alright, running order! first, we have Cyprus" Mark says, Lauren looking around to see Elena, who was running back over to Lauren.

"i'm first! i don't know how to feel about that actually..."

"you'll be fine girl! you've got to make a statement haven't you!"

"ninth we have united kingdom who is followed by Greece, your the first ten yeah? okay eleventh is-"

Lauren stops listening to what mark had to say as she caught up with Elena quietly for a bit watching the reactions of the other contestants.

"okay then we have italy in 24th, sweden and finally, San Marino" Mark finishes, "now if you'd all follow me, we're gonna practice the walk through and camera work a few times with the hosts"

The large group walk behind the stage screen doors, Mia walking off towards the front of the stage with all the other managers.

"alright we've got to talk about what your gonna do with the screen time" Quinn says, Lauren finding her place in the line to walk onto the stage.

"alright, what do you have in mind?" Lauren asks, thousands of thoughts playing through Quinn's mind.

"this is like, the first look they get of you of the night in your outfit and shit, so it needs to be a banger" Quinn says to the girl, Mark shouting something over her, "slut drop?"

"a family show, Quinn, a family show" Lauren laughs, the hosts walking past them and out onto the stage, "i'll just like, wave and shit like that"

"lauren, no, that's the most basic shit ever, make a fucking statement! strut towards the crowd running your hands down your sexy figure, gaze into the camera with your sexy look with a small smirk on your face and THEN smile and blow a kiss"

"that's gonna fit in three seconds?"

"yeah, course you will, wait i hear the music, damn this is a jam!"

"LISTEN UP! WERE DOING THE FIRST REHERSAL, IF YOUR NUMBER IS ODD, WALK TO THE LEFT, EVEN TO THE RIGHT" mark shouts, the music blaring through the speakers, "CYRPUS IN 5, 4, 3..GO"

The sound of The countries being called out rang in Lauren's ears, The line going down quickly before she could only see the three Serbians heads, mark ushing then down the walkway before they walked down into the opening.

"serbia"

"Lauren walk!" Mark shouts, Lauren quickly looking back to Quinn who was smiling at her, Lauren beginning to strut down the wall way, the feeling of eyes watching her.

"united kingdom"

Lauren hears quinn's voice in her head, copying almost everything she has said only a few minutes ago. She quickly blew a kiss to the camera before walking off towards the left.

That's when Lauren could get a view of the arena. At that point there was no lights on apart from the main Arena ones, and the screen was playing around with different countries and effects.

"Italy"

Lauren looks up to the screen from the bottom of the stage where she had walked to meet Mia.
She looks at the stage to see the four Italians walking down, Damiano of course with his slicked back and his shirt off, the two making eye contact for a few seconds before walking off in the opposite directions as Sweden came through the stage.

Once the parade was over, Mark walks through the screen, Standing in the middle of it with a mic in his hands.

"some of you really need to work on your three seconds, RUN IT AGAIN!"

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