Put Your Heart On Your Sleeve

Chapter 18

Cristina smiled, looking at the boys perform. She saw Harry take a quick glance at her and wink at her. He turned back to look at all the fans singing to their first single. They had reached the ‘na na na na’ part of the song but decided not to sing and keep the instruments going. 

“Alright you guys, we’ve decided to bring up a special someone.” Harry yelled. The fans were screaming, you could barely hear him through the microphone. “You want me to bring her out?” he yelled. Some girls stopped screaming he said she but there were still girls screaming their heads off. “Cris, come on out.” he said. He held out his hand to her. She stood frozen, not moving. She shook her head a little, her eyes wide open. “Cristina, come out. They’ll love you.” he said. She shook her head again. Harry walked over and grabbed her hand, pulling her out onto the stage. “This is Cristina and she’s gonna sing the rest of the song with us.” he said, grabbing a microphone from one of the sound technicians and handing it to her. Cristina looked at Harry and then at the microphone. She stared at the microphone and then out to the audience and back to the microphone and back to Harry’s eyes. 

“I can’t do this,” she mouthed the words to him. 

Harry nodded, “Yes you can.” he mouthed back.

Cristina looked out to the audience. 

“Cris is going to sing my solo everyone!” Harry yelled. He stepped back, letting her stand alone in the center of the stage. 

The drum and guitar riff was starting to get repetitive so she had to start singing soon. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

“Baby you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed, but when you smile at the ground it ain’t hard to tell, you don’t know oh oh,” she sang. The boys joined in to keep the song going. She finished singing the song with them and as soon as the song finished everyone in the audience was screaming. 

Cristina looked out at the audience, smiling, tearing up. 

“Thank you, Harry.” she mouthed to him. She hugged him and kissed his cheek. She hugged all the other boys and then walked off stage. She stood by off stage watching the boys rest of the performance. As soon as they finished performing all their songs they said good night and thanked them all for coming. The next act in the tour was coming up. They boys walked off, kissing their hands and waving them to the audience. Harry took off his ear piece and handed his microphone to the crew and walked up to Cristina.

“Harry you were fantastic. You all were.” she said, grabbing onto his hand.

“You were phenomenal.” Harry said, having a huge cheeky grin on his face. 

Cristina blushed. “You’re too kind. You really didn’t have to do that for me.”

“I wanted to. I promise I won’t do it again though. You looked really scared most of the time.” he said, laughing.

She laughed with him and poked his nose. “Yeah please don’t.” They walked to Cristina’s room instead of the boy’s room and sat on the couch together holding each other’s hands, whispering things to each other and giving each other soft, tender kisses every so often. They heard a knock on the door and Louis peeked through the door.

“Harry, we have to go out to meet some fans.” Louis said.

“Alright, I’ll be out.” he said, getting up slowly from the couch. “I’ll be back, Cris.”

Harry walked out, going after Louis. Cristina sat on the couch, looking around in the room. She grabbed her phone to see if she had any new text messages. The only text she had was from her mom asking how she was doing. She responded telling her what has already happened to her the first day being with Harry and the boys. She tapped onto the twitter icon on her screen. She tapped the new tweet button and typed down, ‘An amazing first day to start the next few months. So excited!’ She pressed send and then put her phone down away in her purse. She was surprised that she hadn’t gained any followers from Harry’s stunt but probably since the fans only got her first name they don’t know who she really is. Plus with the millions of other Cristina’s in this world it’s hard to find her on the internet. She heard her phone ring and saw it was Karly calling. She sighed, answering her phone. “Yes, Karly,” she said.