daniel's pov
we already sang all of our songs and the concert was almost over. i knew maya was listening backstage, and i prepared myself to say want i've been wanting to say for a while now.
"hey everyone before we say goodbye, we would like to sing a new song we wrote. this song was written about our lovely friend maya."
"this is our new song called 8 letters." i finished
"you know me the best, you know my worst see me hurt but you don't judge. that right there is the scariest feeling." jonah sang
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my part came next and i made sure i found maya backstage so i could sing straight to her.
"isn't it amazing how almost every line on our hands align when your hands in mine. it's like i'm whole again isn't that a sign i should speak my mind." i sang while looking at her
the song came to an end and i when over to steal the mike from jack.
"i came up with the idea for this song because i was struggling with something i needed to tell maya. maya, i just want to tell you i love you and i don't know why that was so hard for me to say. it's only 8 letters but it was hard for me to tell her."
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i went to find her after the show was over but she wasn't anywhere. so i knocked on her dressing room door.
"hey maya, are you in there?"
"yeah."
"can i come in?"
"sure."
"daniel i don't know why you did that."
"because i love you, but it was so hard for me to tell you that."
"look daniel i love you too but i think that this would be wrong of us to do. i don't know if this is a good decision for me right now, i'm so sorry."
with that she left the room with tears rolling down her cheeks. i just sat down on the chair in the hallway and sighed. i flipped my gatorade in my hand and wondered what i did wrong.
fans started blowing up my phone with response to the new song and i figured i should look at it.
fan1: wow 8 letters is so cute
fan2: maya is a lucky girl
fan3: daniel needs to scoop maya right now
fan4: that was the cutest shit i've ever seen
fan5: daniel really loves maya, but does she love him is the question.
that last one encouraged me to shut off my phone and got outside the venue. i couldn't take the constant rejection i've been getting lately.
that's when i heard something i wish i didn't. maya was having a phone call outside.
"babe i'm sorry, i didn't know he was going to write a song about me. i didn't even know that he loved me like that. listen i got to go to bed. i'll call you tomorrow, i love you."
"wow." was all i could let go
"daniel, i'm sorry."
"so that's why you don't like me, you already found someone else."
"yes, i'm so sorry."
"just forget it, i shouldn't of tried because i was apparently just wasting my time on someone i thought i was in love with."
i walked into the bus and just shut myself in my bunk so i wouldn't have to talk to anyone.
