after a few run throughs of the Flag parade with the hosts, Mark was satisfied with what they had accomplished and sent them away for whatever they needed to do.
"lauren over here!" Mia shouts at the girl, Walking over to her, "the interviews literally in fifteen minutes okay? we've got to quickly do the prop rehersal, do the interview and then your second prop rehearsal but with the lights and backround screen okay?"
"yes Mia, all sorted, i'll go wait back stage"
"yeah go meet mark he's gonna tell you what to do"
"i'll go sit on the sofas with Mia okay?" Quinn says, "look, here come the lads"
Lauren looks over her shoulder to see the four boys walking in, jack and Dylan with a pair of sunglasses propped up onto their nose.
"hey Quinn babes you alright babes" Dylan says, slinging his arm over Lauren's shoulder, "we still going for drinks later babes, i bought a new zara dress just for you babes"
"i actually havnt bought anything from Zara in a while you know" Lauren says, throwing her phone into her bag onto the white sofa in-front of the stage.
"LAUREN WHERE ARE YOU PLEASE" Mark shouts into the mic, grabbing the attention of the group.
"WERE COMING NOW!" she shouts back, grabbing the four boys and running over to the stage stairs.
The five run back stage and through the doors and onto it where mark was waiting for them, The man pushing the mic into her hands.
"right, we're gonna do this slowly okay we've got your props and shit but you've got your dancers so we need to do this quickly"
(imagine this yourself)
The stage crew start to bring out the different platforms, all joining together to make a large one with a set of stairs leading down them with lights underneath. a few steps back from the top of the stairs is a space where a vanity is placed with a large mirror with lights circling around it.
"i love it" Lauren says, imagining herself walking down the stairs tomorrow night in-front of the whole crowd.
"alright, make your way up the stairs and we will do a quick run through without music"
Lauren walks up the stairs slowly, looking down at the ground below her.
"it's quite high up!" she says, looking over at her manager.
"no you'll be fine, trust me...OKAY" mark says, walking away from the girl, "your music starts, you start singing to yourself in the mirror looking at camera 3, you walk down the stairs after the first verse, do your walk thingy to the front of the stage, wink at the camera and walk back where the dancers are and do the rest of the song like we rehearsed, got it?"
"i mean-"
"alright good, MUSIC!"
Lauren quickly turns on her mic and sits at the dressing table, the lights on the mirror switching on as her music starts.
She starts to sing her lyrics as she looks at the camera through the mirror, A few shouts from mark edging her on.
As she begins to walk down the stairs, her mind wanders off to the first time she performed this song here, which was also the first time she met damiano.
She stumbles on a few steps going down, quickly brushing it off as she walked down to the front of the stage, winking to camera 7 as mark had suggested.
The rest of the song went well, not as good as it could have been of course, but she was getting somewhere.
"alright, the stairs, what we thinking" Mia says to her as she climbs on the stage.
"mia i'm gonna be in heels" She says into the mic, "i tripped then and i'm in trainers, i don't wanna be breaking anything"
"your right, mark? what we gonna do hm?"
"i have no clue, we can't extend the stairs but we can make the platform lower down but that dosnt solve that problem" Mark says, rubbing his chin, "look, i'll have a think about it, you have an interview to get to alright?"
"thanks mark, alright i'll see you lot later" Lauren says, waving the crew and Quinn goodbye, "mia let's go"
The two girls walk towards the conference room, talk about the staging practically bursting from them.
"i love it, i just don't wanna fall on my face on live tv"
"yeah i know, it's okay, we'll talk about it after this"
"Lauren hello!" Samya says to the girl, energy radiating off her, "you ready to go?"
"yep we're all good!" Lauren says, following the girl out onto the platform and taking a seat next to mia.
"okay, first questions from the british media, please stand up, okay you ma'am, your question please?"
"hi Lauren, i'm Noelle from Vogue UK, and my question is about your outfit for the evening tomorrow night, we still haven't seen you in your eurovision outfit, who your stylist and why haven't we seen it yet?"
"hi Noelle, um, there's no problems with the outfit at all, it's honestly amazing, im just waiting for the right moment to put it on for the first time, My stylist is Zigman, i've worked with him multiple times he is so good at what he does so make sure everyone gives him love because he's amazing"
"alright! next question?"
A few questions go by, most of them about her performance and her song, other countries asking her questions.
"hi Lauren, im Xhris from the russian media, and obviously this year the competition is very strong, so if you do win, what will you do to celebrate?"
"oh there will defiantly be a party without a doubt" Lauren laughs, "no but, i'll probably take some a week or so off before getting back into it, a few tours around Europe of course and just having fun with it"
"okay our next question is from the Italian Media, would you mind standing up sir?"
"yeah hello lauren, first of all, your song is great my team love it" he says, looking down at his paper, "my question is about the recent things going around twitter, can you explain what was going on in those videos?"
"erm" Lauren looks over at Mia who was frowning at the man, looking at Lauren and shrugging at her, indicating that she could choose to answer it or not.
"me and Damiano are dealing with this separately away from the media and pretty much everyone, but i can assure you this does not need to be a big thing, at all" Lauren says, playing with her hands.
"but you do realise that Damiano is in a relationship with a big influencer in Italy? everyone knows them as a couple and your currently being labelled as a home wrecker? how do you feel about this?"
"once again we're dealing with it all separately, his relationship is nothing i am involved in so i don't know anything about her, or the relationship but i am certainly not a home wrecker, i was cheated on too remember, i would never put this onto someone else" Lauren frowns, looking over at mia who was nodding at the girl, both girls looking at Samya.
"alright! that's all we have time for, thank you all for coming and thank you Lauren and mia!"
The two thank Samya and the media, walking off out of the conference room.
"home wrecker? a fucking home wrecker?! this is shambles you know, shambles"
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