MOZAIK

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Du-Dum Du-Dum Du Du Du Du Du Du-Dum... The sounds which could have been easily mistaken for the pounding of my beating heart, were actually the first notes of "Read your diary" Vic played graciousily on her bass. Ethan then joined her on the drums. "Brought you some roses, you didn't take them, so I shed a tear.", sang Damiano. I breathed in deeply and out again. I felt like I was in an aquarium, somehow it was all so surreal. Damiano's attempt to calm me down had caught me off guard in such a way, that I had been distracted for a short time and had not been able to get further into my panic. Nevertheless, I felt anything but good and I could not imagine myself ever getting used to this situation or even enjoying it. "There is a diamond on your pillow when you're coming home.", I heard Damiano chant. F***, it was finally my turn. I slammed my guitar strings in the right moment. Phew, I almost missed my spot. Fortunately, "Read your diary" was the first song. Not only was it one of my favorite songs on the album, but also my guitar playing was rather limited in the song, except for a small solo during the bridge. "I was dancing in your shoes when I read your diary to..." The song was almost ending, when I recognized Vic walking over the stage towards me. "Hey Sweetheart", she told me, whilst Damiano was hitting his final notes. "You need to move at least a little. I mean everyones eyes are on Damiano indeed, but if you're not vibing with us a little, everybody might be starring at you." She grinned and walked off to her former place. The next song we were coming up with was "For your love", so it was my turn to start with the guitar riff. I loved the riff, so I should be loving it, to share it with everyone. From the corner of my eye I noticed Damiano making his way towards me, as I was still playing the intro. He then stopped right in front of me. B flat Major and D minor, I played the two chords, before it was his turn. I lifted my head and looked him in the eye, as he was still standing not a meter away from me. "Mmh, I wanna be the first man you look at tonight.", he moaned. I strummed the strings again. "I wanna be a good man and see you smile.", whilst he was singing the words, a little smirk brightened up his face. Maybe he was trying to cheer me up, I thought, so I put on a smile, to demonstrate that I was enjoying myself. Since he was standing in front of me, his back was facing the crowd. So he turned back to the audience for the next verse and walked to the edge of the stage, but not without giving me a conspiratorial wink beforehand. "Tell me what you want. I'll give you what you want.", Damiano sang the last words of the bridge. So time for another marvellous solo, or what? I motivated myself. My fingers automatically slid over the fretboard as if I had never done anything else in my life. Somehow I could actually almost enjoy the moment. I closed my eyes to block out all the expectant faces for a moment. When I opened my eyes again, I saw damiano kneeling on the floor in front of me. He had a lascivious look on his face and was moving his hips up and down to the music. "'Cause baby, for your love, I'll do whatever you want.", he sang whilst raising his free hand up in the air, to led it finally glide down his upper body. As he sang he would constantly keep our eye contact. "For your love, I'll do whatever you want." He stood up as the drums began to drive the rhythm forward. "Eh, eh, ehi, ah.", he croaked. The whole crowd was cheering immediately. This feeling was really priceless. Of course, I also received positive reviews and words of praise for my movies, but this immediate overwhelming response from thousands of people was not comparable to it. At all. 

"As some of you may have noticed...", Damiano began his talk with the audience, "Thomas is particularly handsome today.", he smirked. "All jokes aside", he winked at the crowd. "Everyone make some noise for our wonderful Benedetta, who completes us on this tour." 

Why was he doing that to me? Pointing me out like that. Since I had no clue how to behave, I just smiled and waved to the crowd, but they would not stop cheering. I then decided to blow a few air kisses in the direction of the crowd, whereupon Damiano dived in the direction of the kisses and acted as if he wanted to catch them. The crowd got even louder as they watched him goofing around on stage.

The next song upcoming was "Touch me". The audience went wild when the first notes rang through the hall. I loved the motley mix of songs from all the different albums the guys had picked for the gig. And I especially loved this song. If it would have been me in the crowd I would have been the loudest to  cheer. But since I was not in the crowd I started my own little dance party on stage with Vic. "Watch me, watch me, wa-wa-watch me, watch me." We jumped back to our former places, so that the audience could turn its undivided attention back to damiano, who shone with a few affected dance moves. He got rid of his shirt "Lick me, lick me, baby, lick me, lick me.", he shouted into the microphone. "Baby", he seductively groaned whilst stumbling across the stage. "I wanna see you naked.", he faced me to turn his back to the audience, so they could watch him shaking his ass to the beat. "Give me your liquid spirit." While he was talking about liquids, I noticed that thin streams of sweat were already running down his bare torso. He licked his lips and fixed me with his gaze: "I just wanna love you tonight."