After the incident earlier, I had to think of Shawn multiple times. When I finally went with my parents into the hall to find our seats, I peeked around a few times if I would see Shawn anywhere, but I did not. While the prizes got distributed I occasionally glanced around the hall until I told myself that this was dumb because he just introduced himself to me and nothing more.
But how he introduced himself was, what I couldn't stop thinking about. Most of the people only greet me or talk to me when they know want to get to know my parents and not because they want to get to know me personally.
And this was one of the disadvantages of having famous parents. That many people just use me to get to them. When they were older colleagues of my dad, who didn't talk to me very much, I understand that. But then there were fake friends who I had to deal with multiple times before.
And because of that I was pretty impressed of Shawn earlier. He presented himself, when my parents were far away and no cameras were in sight.
But when the actual show began, I had to ban Shawn from my thoughts and concentrate on the happening in front of me.
At the end of the show, me and my parents left with one award for my fathers movie Lone Ranger.
We went off to our hotel just to meet our stylists, who would make us ready for the after-show party.
When they finished styling me, I went to Majas room, because I was just told that the Garlands would stay at the same hotel as us.
I wore a long black skirt with black glitter on it and a thigh top with the same color and fabric. Because the split between the top and the skirt wasn't that big, it rather looked like a dress with bare midriff and of course my small golden necklace with a piece dove on it, which i wear every day.
Maja opened the door, almost completely naked, after I knocked a few times. Only her make up and her hair was finished. She quickly threw on a long pair of dark green and white striped loon pants and a white top.
When she finished we said goodbye to her stylists and went off to the party.
'Your outfit looks good.. exceptionally', I laughed. 'Yeah thanks Julia, and you don't look as bad as always too' she countered.
'Let us submit our bags first' I suggested when we arrived at the party location, what actually was not that far away from our hotel.
'Ok give me your bag, I'll submit them and you go get us something to drink.' I nodded and gave Maja my, to the dress fitting, clutch. Actually, I dont know why we always bring our bags with us to the after-show parties because they just disturb while we dance and we always end up submitting them.
On the way to the bar I passed a few known faces and at the bar next to me, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber were excitedly discussing something. I smiled to them for a greeting but did not want to interfere in their discussion so I just ordered two drinks for Maja and me.
Right when the bartender gave me the two drinks Maja approached next to me. 'What did you get us?' she questioned and lurked interested over my shoulder. I turned around and gave her one glass. 'Just two aperols, for the beginning.' On these after show parties people often wouldn't drink hard liquor like vodka or schnapps.
But when I was with Maja, we always had fun. I mean, not that I need hard liquor to have fun or anything. 'Let us sit down over there and first empty our glasses and then dance?' Maja suggested and pointed to a black couch with a small table in front of it on the other side of the room. I nodded and, on the way over there, I noticed Majas smirk on her face.
'Why do you grin so idiotically?' I asked with amusement. 'Well, when I gave away our bags previously, I met somebody.' Her smirk just grew but I looked at her with confusion. 'And would you like to tell me who?' I inquired slowly.
'Shawn! Come on Julia, as if you've already forgotten him?' she asked indignantly. 'No, of course not but I just did not have him in mind.' I spoke slowly and a bit offended. 'What did he do?', I then continued.
'At first, I thought that he only wanted to give his jacket to the cloakroom, but then he actually accosted me..' Her mischievous smirk was back. I don't like that. It makes me suspicious and nervous.
'What did he say?' I wondered warily. 'He asked for you. Isn't that cute?', her smirk was softer now but I responded shocked and a bit bashful. 'Come on Maja, don't rip me off, what did he say?'
'I'm not! I swear. He asked if you were here too, for real.' She justified and I glanced at the floor flabbergasted. If it's true, and I don't think Maja would lie to me, he maybe wanted to talk to me. I would love to talk to him but like I declared before, I suck at those kind of conversations.
'I still think the way he greeted you, before the show, was dang cute.' Maja pointed out while taking a sip of her drink and I thought about his introduction earlier and immediately got nervous again. I turned around once to see if I would recognize his brown hair anywhere, but I didn't.
'Yes, it was,', I could feel how my cheeks blushed a little 'I just didnt know how to react', I let out a small laugh. 'Obviously you still don't know how to react, telling from how you look for him', Maja giggled.
'What? Im not!' I tried to defend myself, without success. 'Of course,', she said with irony. 'I think for the few years that I know you, I can tell why you just turned around. But I mean, I would too, if a guy like Shawn showed interest in me. However, my interest waits at home.' Maja spoke a bit desperately and I smiled at her encouragingly.
'I'm not sure if we can call it showing interest, I mean he talked to me once. And I did not see him here yet so we are probably just misinterpreting something.', and I meant what I said. I met him once, so? There was nothing special about it.
Maja just looked at me with disbelieve. 'Ok but please do me a favor and if he shows up don't avoid him. We both know you would just regret it in the end.'
'Ok, ok, I won't avoid him. But I don't think that he is going to show up.', maybe a small flicker inside of me hoped he would. 'But anyways, let us talk about something else please. Did you hear from Tony since the show earlier?' I asked her interested, and I really was interested, but I wanted to change the subject mainly.
The rest of the evening we spend talking to other friends, dancing and drinking other drinks. When we were on the way to our hotel later that night, without meeting Shawn again that day, I was honestly a bit more disappointed than I thought I would be. I tried to forget the disappointment, because before I talked to Shawn earlier, I hadn't thought about him once as well.
Back in the hotel, I quickly said goodbye to Maja, made myself ready for bed and immediately fell asleep when I laid down.
