The crowd goes wild. Another fantastic performance by Sleeping With Fishes. He looks around, as he always does right after the end of their set.
Percy grins, arms outstretched, just loving the applause and scream of the crowd. He's breathing heavily after belting that last bit of that last song, but it's okay, and it's completely worth it.
Thalia has a simple smirk, having placed her electric guitar on a nearby stand, pride flag that was thrown at her wrapped around her shoulders like a cape. She'd sign that nice and big and get it back to the fan that threw it, of course-there was just a tradition of people throwing pride flags at her and Nico to know that iconic people had them for a time.
Nico... Well, usually, he'd do some quick trick with his drumsticks, earning another uproar from the crowd. He'd do the trick, pull his hair out of the low ponytail he kept it in for the whole concert-he knew that any fan attracted to men loved to see that-and then simply wait to follow Percy and Thalia off stage.
This time though, he... just didn't. For a few reasons.
Well, for one, he'd just been banned from texting the person he was in love with. So, you know, that wasn't fun. That took some energy out of him, for sure.
But, also, he'd performed far more emotionally than he typically did. And that might be odd to get-he was just the drummer, after all. But he was more determined seeming, more... Just, extra. And when the one song he did sing came up on the set, everyone there could tell he was just, different.
Nico was exhausted, come the end, so he just sat back. Let himself breathe.
The moment he was off stage, his bandmates had concerns.
"You look exhausted, bro, are you okay?" Percy questioned.
"Yeah, Nico, you did amazingly but is something wrong?"
"I'm fine." Nico dismissed.
"Hey, you know you can talk to us, right? I'd hope we're your best friends. Unless you're thinking of-"
"Not thinking of leaving the band, trust me. You don't have to worry about that. It's just some stress with a friend."
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Write 'n Roll ~ Solangelo Hanahaki
FanfictionWhen Will woke up that morning, he didn't guess that the day would change his life. I guess you never realize that something's a big moment until long after the fact, that's always been true. You don't typically wake up and know "today I'm goin...
