Life With Trent Harmon

Part 33: Elvisfest Part 3

"No.." Trent says and you feel him tense beside you. "These people have been waiting for hours and I think we need to give them a show..."
"Trent" the Elvisfest director says "we can have you back here at Fairpark one night to do a concert..."
"How many people have left because of the rain so far?"
"Well the park is still packed but we have to send everyone out because of the storm that's heading in so some may leave then.."
"They've been standing in the rain all day, anyway." Trent says, with a pointed look "is it going to be safe?"
"After this storm passes, probably."
"Then I'll be on that stage doing a concert for those people.."
The director looks like he is going to protest, but then took a deep breath and says "okay. Be ready in 30 minutes."
As he walks away, Trent looks over at you and smirks as you raise your eye brows at him. "What? The people want a show.."
You laugh and he kisses your cheek. "I'm glad you're here.."
You turn toward him and smile. "I wouldn't miss it for the world" you whisper and lean toward him. He touches his lips to yours but the kiss is cut short by someone walking up.
"Trent here's your rain jacket. We just sent everyone out of the park for 15 minutes. Then you're up."
"Cool deal." Trent says and stands up and pulls you with him. As the guy walks off, Trent wraps his arms around your waist and pulls you in.
You lay your head on his chest and can hear his heart beating fast.
You pull back and look at him "you excited?"
He smiles like a little boy and says "yes!"
"Nervous?" You tease.
"More nervous than I was on finale night.."
You step back into his hug and smile into his chest. "You're gonna be awesome."

Ten minutes later you and Katie followed by Clay and Ashley follow Trent and his family out of the door behind the stage and over to the tent beside the stage. You feel your phone vibrate and pull it out of your back pocket. 
"Hey look up. We are right across from y'all." You look up and see your parents smiling at you, and Kyle playing on his phone next to them. And then you go back to reading the message.
"Tell Trent we are here rooting him on and we love him. And that we wouldn't stand out in rain like this for just anyone." You send a thumbs up emoji back to your mom and then walk over to Trent who is sitting at the table with his eyes closed. You walk up behind him and put your hand on his shoulder. He moves his hand so it is covering yours and then stays that way. After a few seconds, he leans back in his chair and looks up at you and smiles sheepishly.
"My parent are here.." you say, leaning down to talk to him over the loud noise of the crowd. "Right over there. They said they wouldn't stand out in this storm for just anyone.."
he smiles up at you and then looks over the crowd and waves at your parents. Then, he stands up, zips up his rain jacket and turns to you. You touch his arm and lean up to kiss him on the cheek.
"You got this, babe." You whisper and he smiles.
"Here we go. I love you."
"I love you too." You smile back and squeeze his hand. As he takes a step back, he winks at you and then turns and heads toward the crowd. He pulls his hood up and then walks to the first person at the front of the gate and shakes their hand. Slowly, screaming starts to erupt from the crowd as they realize he is shaking hands. Everyone sticks their hands out and a few people get to speak to them. You watch as the people freak out over saying two words to your boyfriend and laugh to yourself. After he makes it through the whole front row, he walks up to the stage. You watch as he unzips his jacket and laugh as all the girls scream. He looks around, shocked, and then laughs. A few girls on the front catch your eye and you look over at them. When they see you looking at them, they all wave at you and your smile widens and you wave back.
"They like me!!" You think to yourself and then go back to watching Trent on the stage. 

A very short 45 minutes later, you stare up at the stage at where your boyfriend had just stood. You blink and realize that tears are streaming down your face and you wipe them away as the crowd starts chanting "Trent! Trent! Trent! Trent!" Your smile grows on your face as you see Trent running back up the stairs. The crowd erupts again as he walks on to the stage. He slowly walks over and picks up his jacket and messes with stuff on the stage. Then he goes over to the microphone and smiles as the group cheers again.
"Don't mind me, guys.. I'm just up here cleaning.." and the walks away and off the stage. The crowd starts back chanting louder and he stops at the edge of the stage and turns around and laughs at them and then walks back to his guitar and picks it up. As he walks back to the mic, he says "I guess I can do one more song. But first..." he says as he strums a cord. Then he spends a few minutes thanking the town of tupelo, the crowd, and everyone else for supporting him at idol and for standing in the rain to hear him. Then, he says "I've always had this dream, and y'all are helping me live it- right here tonight guys..." he plays another chord. "I can't think of another way to end a night like tonight than with a song by the king, himself. First can y'all turn down the stage lights?" As the lights go down, Trent says "if you've got a cell phone, turn on the flashlight, or if you've got a lighter, turn it on, and sing with me if you don't mind.."
a few seconds later, the stage that was just dark was illuminated by the flashlights of hundreds of people and Trent starts strumming the guitar and then looks over to where you are standing with his family.
"Guys.." he says into the microphone quietly, making eye contact with you for a second. "Look at this... can you believe it??" Suddenly, the tears are back in your eyes and rolling down your cheeks. You smile back at him and then look around. Cindy is wiping away tears, along with RK and Ashley. Randy sends him a thumbs up and then looks down and shakes his head.
After he strums a few more chords, Trent starts singing again and your breath catches in your throat.
"Wise men say, only fools rush in." As you hear the lyrics, the tears rush faster. Trent is singing the one elvis song that you have been begging him to sing for a few months. "But I can't help, falling in love with you..."
as he continues singing, you think about how it pertains to your love story with Trent. Y'all have only been dating about 6 months, but there's no way you could help falling in love with him.
"Like a river flows surely to the sea, darling so it goes.. somethings are meant to be..."
You smile as you think about meeting Trent for the first time at the Longhorn and how everything has worked out since then. Suddenly, it hits you that there's no one else on this earth you could want to spend the rest of your life with. No matter where else this ride take you, you want it to be next to him..
You look up at the stage and see that Trent is looking over at you for a split second. As he sings the next part, he turns back to the crowd, he sings
"Take my hand, take my whole life too... for I can't help falling in love with you..." as the last few chords play, you let the tears continue to fall.. RK walks up and says "do you know how hard it was to not tell you this was gonna be Trent's encore the other day when you were talking about this song in the car?" You bust out laughing and hug her as you keep your eyes on the stage. Trent takes a step back and puts down his guitar and the crowd starts cheering again. A smile climbs onto his face as he observes the crowd and it sends chills down your back.
"Thank you Tupelo.. I'll see you soon.."
And with that, Trent walks slowly off the stage. You feel frozen in place as the crowd continues cheering. Ashley comes up Beside you and and pulls you toward the building behind the stage and you start moving, and trying to stop the tears. As you walk into the building, you finally will them to stop running down your face. You look over and see Clay holding Katie, with her head on his shoulder, fighting to keep her eyes open. She sees you looking at her and her eyes light up. "Trent did so good, sissy.." she says with a smile.
"I know!!" You say and walk over and kiss her cheek. Before anything else is said, Trent walks out of the conference room and looks straight st you and smiles. He stops to hug his mom, who is still crying. "I'm so proud of you, Trent.." she says into his chest "you did so amazing.." he wraps her in a hug and smiles again. "Thank you mama."
Then he hugs Randy and RK and then walks over and hugs ashley and talks to her for a second. Then he walks over to Clay and they shake hands. Then Trent puts his hand on Katie's back and her eyes pop open and she sits up and turns around to smile at Trent, causing Clay to almost drop her.
"TRENT!!!" She squeals and wiggles out of Clay's arms and into Trent's. "You did so good Trent!!" And throws her arms around his neck. "I got to play in the rain and I got to hear you sing. All in one night. Today is the best day ever."
"Yeah.." he smiles at her and then looks at you "it is the best day ever.."
You feel yourself blush as Trent stands back up and looks at you. Before he can make his way over to you, your family walks through the door.
"Trent!" Your mom says and hugs his quickly. "I've never heard talent like that.."
"Thank you so much.." he smiles as he hugs her back and then shakes your dad's hand.
"Trent! Man you did so good.." Kyle says quietly to him, and Trent smiles. "Thanks Kyleman.. that means a lot coming from you..."
a few minutes later, Katie is in your dad's arms asleep again.
"We are about to head home.." your mom says.
"See you soon, Trent...Don't be out too late.." your dad says, looking at you and then at Trent before he walks out of the door.
Trent looks over at you and smiles a weak smile and you bust out laughing. He walks over to you and puts his arm around your waist as mrs Cindy walks over. "What's the plan?" She asks, looking over  at Trent.
"Um... it doesn't matter... (y/n) can't stay out really late.. so I thought we'd just spend a little time together..."
she looks from you to him and says "why don't y'all come by the house for a little bit? We are gonna make home made pizzas and stuff. That way if she does get home a little later I can say y'all were with me..."
You feel Trent take a deep breath. "Okay. We are going in her car..."
"Okay see y'all there." She says with a pointed look.
He tightens his grip on your waist as you turn and walk toward the door, and the feeling of his hand gives you chills. You wrap your hand around his waist and walk with him out to your car.
Half an hour later, you are sitting in the passenger side of your car in Trent's driveway as Trent turns off the car. You look ahead and watch the rest of the group head inside and you feel him looking at you.
You look over at him and withdraw out a second thought, he leans in and touches his lips to yours. The kiss starts to grow as he puts one hand on your cheek and the other around your waist, pulling you closer. You slide a hand into his hair and smile into the kiss. A few seconds later, he pulls back slightly and puts his forehead on yours.
"I absolutely completely 100% love you." He whispers and kisses you again, quickly.
"And I absolutely love you more, Trenton William.." you smile as he puts his forehead on yours again.
"No way..." he says and kisses you again.
He slides his hand down your arm and intertwines your fingers with his.
After he leans back, you smile at him. "Have I told you how proud I am of you? You absolutely killed it tonight."
He looks down for a second and then back up at you. "It.. was a dream come true.." he says slowly as unshed tears shine in his eyes. "I felt like it was a dream the whole time I was up there.." he says trying to blink back the tears
"Well it wasn't" you say quietly and place your hands on his cheeks and putting his eyes at your eye level. "Tonight really happened. You headlined Elvisfest in Tupelo, Mississippi, Mr. Trent Harmon."
A tear escapes his eyes and you wipe it away.
"I don't know how this is my life.." he says as he tries to stop the tears falling from his eyes. "I have my dream job, my dream girl.."
You put your lips to his and let the kiss grow and then pull away. "You'll always have me.." you say as you slide your fingers between his again. "You know what I realized tonight?"
"That we will prolly never have another normal night out?"
"Haha well, yeah.. but no."
"Then what?" He asks quietly, leaning close to you.
"I realized that there is no one I would rather spend my life with. Even though this is the hardest life I could have imagined. I would rather have one night with you every few months than every night with anyone else."
"Babe.." he whispers and wipes away the tears from your cheeks with the hand you aren't gripping.
"Trent I'm serious. Please don't let this hard part get us down. Because when I say that one day we will be together all the time," you say in one breath "I'm more serious than I have ever been."
He takes a slow breath and smiles as he kisses you again. "I can't wait for that day..."
"Me either.." you smile and bite your lip as you wink at him. He kisses you again. And then opens his door and climbs out. You open your door too and you hear him say "ummm no. I'll be right there."
You laugh and close your door back. A few seconds later, Trent is at your door and opens it slowly. Then he holds his hand out and helps you out of your car. He shuts your door behind you and wraps his arms around your waist. You put his arms around his neck and he puts his lips to yours for another second. When he pulls back, you see a seriousness in his eyes that you haven't seen since that night at the beach.
"I love you (y/full/n). more than anything in this whole world" and then pulls you in to a hug. You bury your head in his chest and say "I love you too."
Too soon, he pulls back and he slides his fingers between yours and leads you inside to where his family is waiting.
For the next few hours, you spend time with Trent Harmon, not the American Idol, your boyfriend, and take in the moment of normalcy and try to push the thoughts of how this was anything but yalls norm to the back of your mind.

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