After Effects

Chapter 34. - Interviews

"She was so embarressed." Jan laughed at the story as he opened the door to the dressing room.

"Why were they in a tree?" I asked and followed Jan into the room.

"There you are!" Kris' voice rang before Jan could answer my question.

"Sorry." I apologized.

"God, how long can it take to go to the bathroom!"

"Sorry." I couldn't help but chuckle at how dramatic Kris was being. He looked like i had almost missed my own wedding. I looked around the room and saw Solveig sitting in a chair, getting some makeup on. Her eyes were already on me and she smiled softly at me.

"Hi." She said in a calm voice. Even though she looked calm on the outside there was something about the way she talked that told me she was unsure of herself. Like she didn't know whether she should talk to me or not. Solveig looked away again and into the mirror she sat in front of. I couldn't hear what they talked about, but she returned to her conversation with the makeup artist.

I went to sit next to her where another makeup artist had just finished up Jure. I looked into the mirror where i could see Solveig getting some weird rose colored sparkly thingy on her cheekbones. She had her eyes closed, enjoying the feeling of the makeup brush painting over her pale, freckled skin.

Solveig opened her eyes again when the brush disconnected from her face and her eyes landed on me in the mirror. I hurriedly looked away. I couldn't bring myself to look her in the eyes.

Her makeup artist walked away from her just as mine began putting some conceler under my eyes. I didn't look over at Solveig. How was i supposed to look her in the eyes after i'd just jerked off to some fantasy. I felt her lean closer to me.

"Bojci?" She quietly said, not wanting to catch other guys attention who seemed to be messing around.

"Mm?" I said with my eyes closed. Thank God i was getting makeup on so i had an excuse to not look at her.

"Can we talk? After the interview, i mean. It's fine if you don't feel like it, you can say no." Solveig asked in a small voice. She clearly didn't want me to feel any pressure to talk to her. Did she feel like it was her fault? Did she think i didn't even want to have anything to do with her for the rest of the day? I opened my eyes to talk to her. I thought that giving her eye contact would at least bring her a bit of ease.

"Yeah. We can talk." Solveig didn't meet my eyes though. Instead they fixated on my knees.

"Cool." She looked up and smiled at me before leaning back into her chair.

"Cool." I whispered and tried to give her a small smile that instead just turned into me pressing my lips together.

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Tuva's POV

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"Welcome guys, how are you?" A beautiful woman welcomed us. There were 2 cameras sat up and some white light. One camera pointed towards us and the other towards the woman.

All of us thanked the woman and greeted her. I was sat besides Bojan who was sitting next to Jure and we where sitting in front of Jan, Nace and Kris who were sitting on high bar chairs behind us.

"Okay, first question. How have you guys experienced Eurovision so far?"

Kris was the one to answer that question. I pretty much disconnected from reality during these questions. The times i reconnected with reality the questions the interviewer was asking us were just the exact same ones as everyone else would ask us during this whole countdown to Eurovision.