Showtime!

Chapter seven

P.O.V   EMILY 

I only see lights. Flashlight lights. I move on the beat of the song and try to keep smiling while trying to focus on the rhythm. All around me I hear girls screaming. I turn the last round and go towards the end pose. I lean my arm on Shawn's shoulder, just like Kira. A smile and Shawn strikes the final chord. Everyone starts cheering and clapping. We bow with the five of us and then run. Backstage the girls start to jump and clap. Everything went well, except for a few mistakes of my own. I think fast. I still have about two songs (yes, I think in songs) before I completely expose myself to about 17,000 people. I start doing some vocal exercises and try to drink a lot of water. I see that Shawn strikes the last chord of his first song. One more song to go. I look back at Linda. She has no idea what will happen next. Nobody really has an idea. Shawn made me swear I wouldn't tell anyone else, except Kira. Linda looks at us confused. "You can go to the hall," she says. I shake my head. "Preferably not, it's too busy for me. I'm fine here," I half lie. Linda knows about the relationship between me and Shawn. But not that we will announce it in a couple minutes for like the whole world. In my mind I predict my own demise several times. I see that Shawn has finished his number. I am getting more and more anxious. Soon after, he comes running towards me. The girls don't know anything yet. "Come here, you have earphones so you can hear and a microphone," he says, panting. I look back and see that the girls are slowly freaking out. Kira raises her thumbs. I doubtfully walk to the wings. Shawn runs onto the stage and all the girls start screaming and clapping again. "May I have your attention," he begins. I feel a hand on my shoulder. I look at her and see that it is Linda. "Whatever you are going to do, good luck," she says absently. It looks like she's high. She has red eyes. "Thank you," I say doubtfully. "As I said at the beginning of the evening, I had two more surprises for you. I have them ready now. The first is that I will sing the song 'Imagination' with a very special person. I would like to applaud for Emily Martens! " he shouts into the microphone. He beckons me. Nervously I walk towards Shawn. He puts his arm around me. That oh so muscular arm. The whole room bursts into cheers. I look behind me and see my Instagram account behind me on the screen. "Shall we make it known?" Shawn whispers in my ear. I nod. "And why is Emily so special? Emily is my girlfriend." I feel a huge relief in my heart. Everyone starts screaming and I see flashes everywhere. And there goes my privacy. Shawn looks at me. I kiss him on the lips.

P.O.V   SHAWN 

I get a kiss from Emily. Everyone around us starts cheering. I free myself from the kiss en give her a huge smile. Then the band starts playing Imagination. I start the song.

Oh, there she goes again
Every morning it's the same
You walk on by my house
I wanna call out your name

I want to tell you how beautiful you are from where I'm standing
You got me thinking what we could because

I keep craving, craving, you don't know it but it's true
Can't get my mouth to say the words they want to say to you
This is typical of love
Can't wait anymore, I won't wait
I need to tell you how I feel when I see us together forever

I look at her while I'm singing. I see she starts blushing again. My fingers slide over my guitar. Everyone in the room turned on their flashlights again. It feels so good to sing with someone you love so much. She starts singing at the chorus.

In my dreams you're with me
We'll be everything I want us to be
And from there, who knows, maybe this will be the night that we kiss for the first time
Or is that just me and my imagination

I get silent. She sings so good. The next couplet is hers. 

We walk, we laugh, we spend our time walking by the ocean side
Our hands are gently intertwined
A feeling I just can't describe
All this time we spent alone, thinking we could not belong to something so damn beautiful
So damn beautiful

I keep craving, craving, you don't know it, but it's true
Can't get my mouth to say the words they want to say to you
This is typical of love
Can't wait anymore, I won't wait
I need to tell you how I feel when I see us together forever

Everybody starts screaming. They find it as beautiful as I do. She looks at me, scared. Scared of making a mistake. I give her a confident smile again. She turns away from me and sings for the people. The stage is hers. Like it's her home.

In my dreams, you're with me
We'll be everything I want us to be
And from there, who knows, maybe this will be the night
That we kiss for the first time
Or is that just me and my imagination

Imagination
Imagination
(Whoa, whoa, whoa)

In my dreams, you're with me
We'll be everything I want us to be
And from there, who knows, maybe this will be the night
That we kiss for the first time
Or is that just me and my imagination

I keep craving, craving, you don't know it, but it's true
Can't get my mouth to say the words they want to say to you

I hit the last chords of the song. Everyone starts screaming and clapping enthusiastically. Even Linda claps in the wings. Emily looks at me and hugs me. I break free from her embrace and kiss her on the lips. The whole hall is now shouting. We break the kiss laughing. "Thank you!" Emily says into the microphone before hopping off the stage. The band laughs and I continue with my concert. This concert cannot go wrong anymore.