"Are You Going to Age with Grace?" A Dan Smith Fanfic

Chapter 4

*Graces Point of view*

"We are gonna slow it down a bit here, this is Torn Apart." As soon as I hear the words "Torn Apart" come out of Dan's mouth I literally almost have a heart attack. I love this song so so so damn much like you have no idea. Ok ok, deep breath,  I need to calm down. The Band starts the music and It really hits me right in the feels if ya know what I mean. I feel like shedding some tears right here.

I'm staring at Dan. He is closest to our side of the stage, which is quite ironic since this is my favorite song of theirs. The song begins. I watch Dan's eyes as they begin to roam across the crowd. In a way I hope they by chance skim over me but in a way I don't. His eyes are scanning a section beside mine as he sings. Then his eyes shift to my section. I am a very shy and anxious person so it kind of makes me feel uncomfortable.

His eyes are getting closer and closer. I feel more nervous by the second. It will probably just be a second of a glance but I don't care, for goodness sake it is the man who sings the songs I fall asleep to every night.  "And it hurts like hell to be thrown around"... Boom. Eye contact. "We were born to be together torn apart, torn apart"

I literally can barely keep my shit together so I just look down as my face is getting a light shade of red. Thinking that his eyes will already be on the next section of people, I look back up. To my surprise two breathtaking blue eyes are staring back at me. In this moment I feel infinite. As he sings "We were born to be together" it's almost as if he is singing to me. He doesn't take his eyes away from mine. I turn and look behind me to make sure he is looking at me. I half point to myself and kind of mouth "Me?" He gives a little nod with a small smile but not too noticeable. Did Dan Smith literally just nod and smile at me? No way he couldn't have. 

He glances away a few times to interact with the crowd more but he always finds his eyes back here.  Emily then says "Um Grace is it just me or is Dan Smith like staring at you right now..." I don't answer because I was barely paying attention to my surroundings. My eyes were set on him.

The song ends after what felt forever. And he starts to walk over to a security guard. I miss the feeling of his stare already.

*Dans point of view*
I couldn't peel my eyes from this girl in the crowd. She knows I was staring at her too. I don't know her name or anything about her. I've never seen her before in my life. Normally I don't really like to make too much eye contact with people because I don't want to feel like a creep or make things awkward but it's like I was drawn to her or something. I finish singing "Torn Apart" and I decide I have to meet that girl or at least do something about it.

I walk up to a security guard that is near me. I'm trying to be as quick as possible as Kyle is saying a few words about the fireworks afterwards or something, I wasn't really paying much attention.  I lean down. "I need to ask a favor of you sir."  I whisper. "What could I do for you?" "Look up to that section over there" I say as I give a little point. "Do you see the girl with the dark red lips and the long blonde and brown hair with blue eyes."  After taking a second to locate the girl with his eyes, he responds with a yes. "What I need you to do is make sure that she gets backstage after this last song." "No problem" he says as he gets another member of security to take his spot as he goes to retrieve the girl I have a connection with.

I get back up and it's like I never even left. I try not to look in the direction of the girl during our last song which is "Bad Blood" but I do look once to make sure the security guard got to her. Luckily, I see him standing their talking with here. I see her and another girl, who I assume to be her friend, follow the security guard.

After the song is finished we say our goodbyes and thank you's to all of our very amazing supporters.  We leave the stage and I start getting nervous to see this girl for some reason...I have no clue how this will go but I hope it goes well. The fact that I was singing "We were born to be together" when I spotted her is a good sign. But I need to remember that I also sing "Torn Apart" which was not so comforting.

Thanks for reading chapter 4! :)