Tú Eres Mia. (Bad Bunny)

"Todavía yo te quiero."

I had told Cia about my awkward run in with Benito's friends and she had given me the advice to actually go to the concert. It wasn't one of his shows, it was, in fact, José's. "You sure, I should go?" I asked her. "Of course! You don't necessarily have to talk to him or make up with him, but you don't just throw free VIP tickets away, girl!" she said, looking at them. "You wanna come with me?" I then wanted to know. "If you don't mind, I'd love to!" she answered, sitting up. We were laying on my bed, literally just staring at the ceiling. "I really need some emotional support tonight." I told her, sighing. She squealed and gave me the biggest smile ever. We had about two hours left, before we had to get ready, so we both decided to go to the living room and watch a movie. No matter how hard I tried to concentrate on the movie, my thoughts kept drifting off to Benito. I was imagining what was going to happen and how I would react. The worst thing that could happen, was that I would burst into tears, but really, that was the absolute worst case scenario. 

About four hours later, we had already entered the venue. Since José had given me VIP tickets, we were lead into the backstage area of the arena. It wasn't long until I spotted him, talking to Nicky, Benito and someone I didn't know. His face lit up, when he saw me which caused the others to turn around. At first, I didn't really pay attention to Benito's reaction simply because I was greeted by José with a bear hug. "I'm glad you came, really, it means a lot." he whispered into my ear, before he let go of me and introduced himself to Cia. She was a little starstruck and just blankly stared at him until I poked her into the side. Nicky also came up to me and hugged me, while Benito was standing behind both of them. His facial expression was a mix between surprise, joy and sadness, but he didn't say or do anything. "Hi, I'm Juan. Heard a lot about you." the unknown man introduced himself, shaking my hand. "Hi, Casey. Nice to meet you." I said, smiling at him. Then it was time to greet my ex-boyfriend and since I didn't know how, I just waved at him and turned back around to see where Cia had gone. "We'll head to our seats." Nicky informed José shortly after and left the area together with Juan who said goodbye with a wave. "We should do the same, the show starts in five minutes." I told Cia and looked at my watch. "Oh, no, both of you will stay here. Special guests have special seats." José said, looking at me. "Uh, okay." I replied, staring at him in confusion. He kept talking to us until he had to go on stage. Meanwhile, Benito had grabbed a chair; he was playing around on his phone. One of the security guys also brought chairs for Cia and me. Since there was no room, I was forced to sit next to him; my best friend had insisted on that. With my arms crossed over my chest, I was watching José jump around. "Habla con ella." I heard him say, when he quickly came backstage to grab a new bottle of water. Benito shifted in his chair and looked at me. My eyes were plastered to the stage where José was now jumping around again. "Casey?" Benito said quietly. Cia noticed that he wanted to talk to me, so she excused herself to the bathroom. I looked at her pleadingly, but she had already turned around. "Can we talk, please?" Benito continued. Taking a deep breath, I nodded and turned my head towards him. "I miss us, I miss our late night calls, our movie nights, our random pillow fights, but most importantly I miss you as my girlfriend." he started. I missed him too, but I had no idea if I could trust him again. While he was waiting for a reaction, I studied his face. He looked tired and the happy goofball I had gotten to know, was pretty much non existent. "I miss us too." I replied, looking at my fingers. "Casey, todavía yo te quiero." he mumbled. During that year, I had realized that my feelings for him had been stronger than I had thought because even though I hadn't had any contact to him, he hadn't left my mind once. A smile spread across my face, when I thought about all the pictures I still had on my phone. I hadn't had the strength to delete them and same with all the text messages. "Yo también." I answered, looking at him. A smile spread across his face and he also wanted to say something, but was interrupted by José. "Okay, LA, we have two special guests for tonight's show. Give it up for Bad Bunny!" he yelled into his microphone. The crowd went wild as soon as Benito's stage name was mentioned. Both of us looked at the stage. Benito excused himself and got up from the chair. "We'll talk about this after the show?" he asked, before grabbing a microphone from one of the technicians. I nodded and smiled at him. The melody of MIA started playing and it seemed like not even Benito had expected that because he looked just as confused as I was, but he started dancing to the beat. José was singing Drake's part and to be honest, it sounded interesting. As soon as Benito started rapping, José came running towards me. "Who is the second special guest?" I asked because I really wanted to know. "You!" he answered, grabbing my hand. Oh, hell no. "No, forget about that!" I immediately shouted, backing away from him. Since he was a lot stronger than me, there was no use in fighting. He pulled me on stage with him which did not only catch the crowd by surprise, but also Benito who for a split second stopped singing. Shyly I waved at the audience, literally all I wanted to do, was to dig a hole and disappear. Immediately, Benito came up to me and took my hand. "Concentrate on me." he whispered towards me. Nodding, I watched him dance around me. When he walked up behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist, I couldn't help but smile at the ground. The audience disappeared in that moment and I found myself dancing there with my ex-boyfriend. Benito shortly after let go of my waist and turned me to the side. One of his hands was holding mine, while still dancing with me. When José started singing again, he grabbed me by my waist, pulled me closer to him and crashed his lips into mine. He took me by surprise with that, but it wasn't long until I returned the kiss. I thought the crowd had already been loud, when he had gone on stage, but that had been nothing compared to that moment. Benito hat rested both of his hands on my hips, while I had put my arms around his neck. Right before the song was about to end, we broke the kiss. I buried my face in Benito's chest and he wrapped his arms around my shoulders to pull me closer to him. While the last few seconds of MIA played, he placed a soft kiss on the top of my head. "I love you, Casey." he then whispered into my ear. I lifted my head up from his chest and smiled at him. "I love you, too, Benito." I answered quietly. "LA, give it up for the two lovebirds!" José shouted, pulling the two of us into a hug.