FEEL THE MUSIC {BABY LASAGNA}

IX.People are just delusional

-I think I'm gonna go...-Marko said to me.

-Yeah...

We were pretty disturbed by the weird attention we were getting. I didn't understand anything. By the corner of my eye I saw Nemo wearing a bright pink fur. When they saw me they approached me without doubting it a second, not caring that others were looking at us. Well, I looked again, people had stopped looking. Does that mean that they were looking at Marko? I wasn't sure what was happening.

-Adri, we NEED to talk NOW.-They said as they took me from the arm.

-Yeah...

We went to the room my friend was staying in and we sat on the bed. I could see their suitcase still unpacked, a sign that they had arrived shortly before.

-Okay we had to discuss two things.

-Does one of those things explain the weird scene in the reception?

-Yes.

-Then I would be grateful if we could first talk about that.

-I'm not gonna lie, I'm a bit hurt that you ,being my bestie in Eurovision, hadn't told me about this. But I'm happy for you and I NEED you to tell me everything including every single detail of your date.

-I don't understand. What are you talking about? Date? What?

Nemo didn't answer but instead they searched for something on their phone.

-Look.-They said.

-Oh dear.

On X (I still called it twitter) there was a hashtag which truly caught my attention "Mardri". I clicked impatient to know it's content.

-Oh no.-I sighed. Someone had published photos of Marko and I returning from the London pre-party to our hotel, a moment I didn't even remember happening. In the pictures Marko had his arm around me (probably because I couldn't stand by myself) but at least the pictures were taken from afar and from the back, so nobody cuold really tell that I was drunk or even if we were actually the people in the photo.

-Nemo, I told you before in a message, I got really high and I needed someone to help me stand...

-And what about this?-I gave them back the phone and they started reproducing a tik tok with the song competing for Sweden "unforgettable ".

-HOW?

It was an edit of me and Marko. The video showed fragments of a video we recorded a few days before, us in the cafeteria together and us running like children in Amsterdam.

-But this has just happened! How is that even possible?

-Adri... Do you know how the internet works?

-Computers connected to each other via cable, radio waves or something which transmits data translated into pulses of electricity or light called bits?

-Okay? To be honest I wasn't expecting this kind of answer. Well, the thing is, we live in a society where everyone is connected and in less than a second you can share whatever you like with the rest of the world. But this is not what we should be talking about... How was your date?

-First of all, it wasn't a date. In fact, we went to the café with Marcus and Martinus but they left before us. And second of all, we're just friends. We've known each other for almost two weeks, it's impossible that we're something other than friends. People are just delusional.

-So you're just friends.

-Yes.

-And would you like to be more?