|| joost klein || • the man of your dreams •

- 5 -

with her hair waved to perfection and her blue two piece and blue heels, Freya grabbed her purse and slid her phone in.

"Lils !" she called to her sister who was in the room opposite her.

she peered to see Lily fiddling with her chapstick and hotel keycard stuffing them into her full duffel bag.

"hurry up" freya looked at the invisible watch on her hand and back at Lily.

"fuck" Lily tightened her hands in irritation before slinging her bag over her shoulders and jogging towards freya.

"im so excited to see joost perform Europapa, the way he effortlessly flows on stage" freya daydreamed into her phone scrolling through joosts promoting tiktoks in the uber.

"oh shut up" Lily glared at her sister before they both burst into laughter, tipsy from their pre drinks.

as they slowly got out of the Uber, flashing cameras and a crowd of people squished together waiting to get into the building.

the loud echoes of the screaming people were heard for miles.

they slid through the line for what seemed like hours to get into the fancy venue.

it was a big stadium with detailed decorations carved into the ceiling and the beat of muffled music was already beating through Freya's chest.

Lily pulled the tickets from her bag and they pushed the double doors to a half full room with seats beyond seats and seats.

they rushed down to the stairs to get the best view in standing.

they slipped through small grouped crowds and were almost directly infront of the strip of staging were the performers would be.

"I can see you down there from the green room freya" a notification from joost buzzed to Freya's phone.

she immediately looked up to see half of joost peering over a small balcony that was cleverly hidden.

she waved back at his smiling face from where she stood.

His cheeks crinkled into a wider smile and his top teeth gleaming and his eyes dazed at the sight of her.

JOOSTS POV

He stared down at freya and her somewhat farmiliar friend.

"she looks really nice in that outfit" he thought to himself after scanning her from the balcony in the green room.

"who's that then" Apson taps joosts shoulder after seeing him lean awkwardly over the balcony.

he turned back to apson, still beeming.

"oh, just this girl, we are friends, she's from friesland and she's so cool," joost looked up avoiding eye contact and he fiddled with his earbuds.

"right.." apson slitted his eyes at joosts sudden affection towards someone he just met, who was a "friend"

"what?" joost looked back at apson leaning back with his arms out, acting as if he didn't know what he was implying.

"joost, your on in like 2 performances you and your team should probably head down" nemo slumped through the door out of breathe after performing.

joost smiled in reply and walked towards the door and closed it after saying thank you to the "goodluck"s that filled the room.

FREYAS POV

"joost Klein !!" the presenter called out introducing him as he ran onto stage waving.

Apson and stunt kid ran after him and set up the performance.

he waved at the audience and his cheeks lit up in a warm smile and the audience roared.

his catchy music started playing and freya and Lily swayed to the beat whilst singing along.

joost crouched down after a little dance, microphone in hand he locked eyes with freya and he softly grabbed Freya's hand and kissed it before standing back up.

freya screamed with her palm over her mouth as she stared into her other hand that hat joost soft lips touch it.

the crowd around her was pulling her and looking in her direction screeching in shock and probably envy.

after joosts fun music stopped everyone erupted in applause and screamed for joost, before a warm piano started playing with an emotional beat.

"From : me
to : my parents"
appeared on the screen and freya lowered her head in sadness knowing this was going to be a tough ending.

Joost delivers a beautiful poem and she burst into tears in pity for joost. He was such a kind and sweet man who was fulfilling him and his parents childhood dream.

she looked back up, her mascara running down her flushed cheeks, and joost signalled for her to follow him and he whispered into a security guards ear.

she fast walked round the back of the stage to go up a secret door to find joost stood there, also in tears.

without any conversation, her grabbed her and tightened her into a hug

Freya wrapped her arms around his shoulders as he weakly cried into her back and his pain stun freya inside.

the hugged for so long, she new he needed it. they cried and cried too eachother in comfort.