Oh mon Dieu! - Damiano David

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May, 2021

The next few days were challenging for everyone. The first day was the "getting to know the area and the people" kind of day where the delegations were taken for a tour around the arena and later had ice breaking sessions where they got to know the other delegations. The second day was excursion day where they were in groups of 3 delegations and got to explore Rotterdam with a tour guide and later having more ice breaking activities that were well documented for a behind the scenes footage that will go on the official Youtube channel. The third day was down to business, with fitting and rehearsals and getting everything ready for the shows that were about to commence in two weeks' time. All of them got a slot for when they would film their small interviews with different television companies from all over Europe, as well as LookLab with Nikkie Tutorials something Margot was very excited about.

Margot tried her best to ignore the four that she called impostors. If they joined a conversation she was in, even one of them she would in a minute excuse herself and join a different group. What she was not expecting was the fact that everyone wanted to talk to her. Guess he popularity amongst Europe was wider than she thought. She made good acquaintances with James from the UK, Elena from Cyprus, the girl from Serbia and the band members from Iceland that she always pestered to teach her their dance moves. She also often chatted to Tix from Norway, Roxen from Romania, Manizha from Russia, Vasil from Macedonia and the bands from Ukraine and Finland. She enjoyed learning words in their languages and endlessly conversed about their music and traditions. It was refreshing to always talk to someone in comparison to her heavily antisocial life that she was looking forward to getting back to.

Margot always had the last slot for rehearsals every day which she was thankful for. She liked keeping a mystery of what her performance would be or her outfit. She wanted to surprise people with what she had prepared. Filming her rehearsals was kept to a minimum, just some random shots here and there for montages. Often, she would run into a member of the cursed band she was avoiding. The only two actively trying in private to talk to her being Vic and Ethan which she skilfully avoided as much as possible.

The fourth day, Margot skipped dinner and straight after rehearsals went to her room to rest her vocals. As she got in the lift, someone ran after her. That someone being Vic. Margot tried her best to close the doors before the blond managed to pull through, but she failed. Vic got in and as soon as the doors closed, she pressed the alarm button making the lift stop from moving and the doors to lock. "Stop avoiding us, Margot! – Vic exclaimed in Italian out of breath towards the girl standing in front of her. She was fed up with her avoiding her specifically because Vic valued their friendship a lot. Margot was boiling at this point; she did not want to talk to her so being forced to talk to her was something she was angry about.

"I have every right to avoid you and your band! Do you not get it?" – Margot replied in English, due to her stubbornness to never use Italian again. "That's enough Margot, I did nothing to you!" – Vic, again spoke in Italian. "What do you mean you did nothing to me? You stood there as she belittled me! Do you know how that feels?" – Margot shouted, again in English towards the shorted blond girl whose chest was heaving. "I ran after you Margot, I kept calling you for fuck sake! I ran to your villa bare foot just to find the villa locked and empty! You blocked me on everything!" – Vic shouted in Italian. "What did you expect me to do Vic. I was belittled, embarrassed and hurt from how the people I thought were my friends just left me to stand there while she was hurting me!" – Margot shouted back in English. "Stop with this English bullshit and speak in Italian with me! Fy flate!" – Vic yelled and added a Danish curse word at the end. "I can speak in whatever language I want, case-toi!" – Margot fired back with a French curse at the end.

The two girls were fuming while starring daggers at each other. Vic took a deep breath and spoke. "What he did was out of line. He was not with her when he was with you. She just decided to come and cause issues as she always has. The reason why we were dumbfounded by the whole thing was because we thought she was gone for good. We knew that he ended everything with her for good just before we went up to the village. I am so sorry I did not say anything at the time, but I can't change the past. All I can do is try to make things right now if you let me." – Vic stated in Italian once again, as she waited for a response from the stone-faced girl in front of her.