I Won't Ever Hide Alone

Chapter 3: Fan Boy

"Oh my god, you have to go talk to him!" Kara urged with a nudge to Julian.

"No.. I can't do that!" Julian was trying to hide his face away as if Dom would even know who he was.

"Yes! Go!" She said again.

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Ughhhh, Julian."

"Kara." He mockingly looked at Kara. Her face was so serious.

He watched as she abruptly got up from her seat at the bar. He grabbed her wrist as she was trying to walk away.

"What are you doing?" He asked, but he already had an idea.

"I'm going to go talk to him. And YOU should come too!"

"Oh my god, Kara, we should leave him alone. We don't wanna be those crazy fans or whatever." Julian looked at Kara with his begging eyes.

"We aren't. We are simply out at a bar that he happened to come to as well. We should go say hi. He might not stay here for long." And with that Kara walked around to the other end of the bar.

Julian was having an inner battle with himself. He wasn't sure what to do. Should he go say hello, should he stay right where he was. He watched as Kara tapped on Dom's shoulder. He turned around and a giant smile spread across his face.

Julian kept sipping on his beer as to not seem so obvious that he was watching. Kara and Dom chatted for a bit, then she took a picture with him on her phone. He gave her a hug before she walked back over to Julian. Julian rolled his eyes and smirked.

"Wow! He's precious. I definitely see why you fell for him." Kara stated as she sat in the chair next to Julian.

He looked at her, amazed, "Dude! I did not fall for him. I just really liked his face and then he so happened to be one of the most amazing artists I've ever fuckin seen." He took another drink from his beer and looked away as to not make eye contact with Kara. He knew she wasn't believing that.

"Yeah. That's all huh?" She smirked, noticing Julian avoiding her. "Well, regardless, he was really fuckin nice." She added, her voice saddened. She put her hands under her chin, looked over at Dom, and sipped from her mixer.

"You fuckin like him too, don't you?" Julian teased, his eyes wide with discovery.

"Listen, who ever doesn't like him is literally insane." Kara looked over at Dom again right as his lips created a giant grin of laughter. "He's perfect." Kara noted.

"Well, you would have more of a chance than my gay ass." He stated, feeling down about it all of a sudden.

"Nah, he's famous and he's taken by someone who's really hot actually. Neither of us would ever have a chance." Kara said matter of factly.

"True." Julian agreed, but they both couldn't take their eyes off of Dom. His flowy hair, falling into his face every so often. He would take a hand and glide it through his hair just for his hair to flop back down anyway, covering his bright green eyes. His perfect, massive smile showing off his pearly white teeth. It's like he was a dream.

After a few drinks down already, Julian noticed Dom wasn't there in his spot anymore. It made him kind of sad, because it was a really nice view.

"I guess he left. Back to Halsey he goes." Julian sighed.

"I know, he was like a mini vacation." Kara added.

They sat in silence for a moment. Then Julian felt Kara's hand on his.

"Let's go dance!" Kara didn't even wait for Julian to answer. She dragged him out on the dance floor with her.

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After a couple more drinks and dancing around with Kara, Julian needed to take a trip to the bathroom.

"I'll be right back!" He shouted to Kara over the music blaring. She nodded and kept dancing around to the music.

Julian strolled over to the mens room and while walking he could feel the alcohol was starting to do its job. He went to turn the corner to the bathroom, but accidentally turned right into someone.

"Oh I'm sorry!" Julian slightly slurred before he even saw who it was.

"No, I'm sorry, mate." Came a familiar warm voice.

Julian realized he was face to face with Dom and he froze. Dom was inches from his face, he could almost touch his nose with his if he tried. Julian's eyes looked down to Dom's perfectly plump lips as he spoke.

"Don't I know you?" Dom asked, he sounded a little buzzed.

Julian flickered his eyes back to Dom's bright green ones, "Uhhh yes! I mean.. no!" Julian was scolding himself in his mind. He was sure there were tons of other people that resembled him and crossed Dom's path. Dom must be thinking of one of them, Julian thought to himself.

"Oh fuck! Yeah! That's right, man! We bumped into each other at the show lastnight, yeh?" Julian was surprised, but still not totally convinced Dom was thinking of him.

"We did actually. I had dropped-"

"The water bottles, yeh. I remember. I really liked your shirt. What was it?" Dom looked to the side and scratched his head in thought, "Oh! A Korn shirt! I love them, man." Dom ran his hands through his crazy hair, to which gave Julian goosebumps for some reason.

"Yeah! That was me. I can't believe you remembered that." Julian was in complete shock.

"Yeh. Of course man. Did you stay for the rest of the show?" Dom asked, raising one of his eyebrows in curiosity.

Julian found that he couldn't help it as he started blabbing away, "Yes I did! And you were so amazing! You are amazing, I mean. And I really appreciate your music!" With the alcohol settling in, Julian realized he may sound like a major fan boy right now.

"Oh wow! Thank you so much, man! I really appreciate that. I really do!" Dom flashed Julian a giant smile.

Julian couldn't help but admire it. He had the urge to touch Dom's teeth for some reason, but he shook the feeling away. He didn't understand why he got such strange impulses when drinking.

As they were standing there, inches apart, smiling at each other, a guy was standing behind Dom, waiting to enter the bathroom.

"Oh! Sorry, man." Dom apologized, but the smile never left his face. "Well, I got to go anyway, but it was nice to see you again... I'm sorry... what was your name? I'm bad with names." Dom looked embarrassed.

"Julian. No worries, man." Julian felt he probably looked like a fool with the giant smile painted on his face."

As Dom started to walk away, he added, "Maybe we will bump into each other again in the future." He winked and turned his back to walk out of the bar.

Julian practically keeled over. He let his back fall into the wall and he just rested there with a smile plastered on his face. His heart beating a mile a minute and he thought,  Is there such a thing as love at first sight?