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Nia shifted her eyes suddenly feeling uncomfortable, she was sure Saint was staring at her but another part of her, a larger part, felt it was just hallucinations.
"Here's your drink bestie," Janice said behind her, she turned around and Janice handed her a bottle of her hennessy. Nia smiled politely and took it before she cocked it open with her teeth.
"That's a bad habit Nia," Janice said tsking.
"He's about to speak!" Janice squealed, forgetting her previous argument. "Here, feel my goosebumps," she said, placing her right arm on Nia's face. Nia laughed when she indeed felt the hair on Janice's arm rising, she also had goosebumps but didn't have the time to say so as Saint was already up on stage and looked like he wanted to say a speech first.
Nia swooned, he was dressed in a low waist Jean trouser which did justice to his hips. His muscular body was on display through his white simple polo and apart from a chain which showed the name of his record label - JL. He didn't have any other ice on.
"Men, no other superstar simple like this man in front of us." Nia said voicing out her thoughts, Janice nodded in response and then told her to keep quiet by holding her finger to her lips.
The whole place was already filled up with more than two thousand students already in attendance and it was just 10pm.
"What's up people of Atlanta City?" Saint hollered into the mic before pointing it at the crowd.
Everyone screamed and cheered in response and Nia was surely not excluded.
"First of all I wanna say how grateful I am for all of your love and support. I wouldn't be up on this stage if y'all hadn't streamed my songs and vibed to it." He continued in a very sincere voice joining his hands together with the microphone.
"That being said-" He said with a smile and then paused. Everyone went quiet waiting for his response.
"I'm going to be picking one person," he said holding up a finger. "From this crowd," He pointed at everyone standing in front of him. "To vibe with me up on stage." He ended and the crowd went wild.
He dropped the microphone back in it's place, gave a peace sign and ventured back to the back room.
The incessant chattering amongst the people around then became so deafening Nia wasn't sure she wanted to be there anymore.
"Would you like to get some glow in the dark wristbands before he starts," Janice asked Nia, concern written on her face.
Nia nodded firmly, she actually just wanted to get out of the crowd of fangirls and probably have a smoke or two.
They pushed their way through the crowd hand in hand and walked to the store just a few feet from the crowd.
"Two glow in the dark wristbands ma'am," Janice said to the woman who worked at the shop, everything in the shop was glowing and it was hurting Nia's eyes.
She squinted and then turned around, searching her purse for the stuff she put in her pocket before they left her house. She lit it with the handy lighter she always kept in her bra and took a drag feeling herself relax.
Janice turned around swiftly and scowled. "You know you can't be caught smoking on school property like this Nia," she scolded.
Nia looked at her with hooded eyes but nodded, she dropped the weed on the floor and stepped on it with her feet.
Janice gave the woman some money and took the bands from her outstretched hand.
"I just needed to relax." Nis whined when she saw Janice still scowling at her.
Janice sighed and took her hand in hers walking them back to the massive crowd which had doubled up in size.
They couldn't get their spot at the front back and so they pushed their way into the middle.
Janice passed Nia her wrist band and they put it on at the same time.
"Girl, I can't wait for this to be over." Janice said whining.
"I knew you didn't like Saint this much." Nia said laughing. "It just literally began," she added, nudging her with her shoulder.
"Chale, I Just want a private concert or something like that." Janice said, shifting her weight to her left leg.
"That's the same thing as listening to his music in your room Jany," Nia said laughing.
Saint walked up on stage with a different dress, he had black low waist jeans on now and a bulletproof vest, it was supposed to look hilarious but Saint killed the outfit. He also wrapped a bandana around his dreads and the label chain was still around his neck.
"Shit looks like a dog leash," Nia commented.
"Girl you have to stop saying what's on your mind all the time," Janice said laughing. "Saint's still in Atlanta because of that fucking label." She added agreeing with Nia.
"I wonder why nobody's don tell him ye-" she started but Saint tapped on the microphone shutting her up.
He sang his first song ever and Nia screamed the lyrics until her throat became sore, the night dragged on with Saint rapping out hit after hit. And then he surprised them all by announcing he would sing a special song from his yet to be released debut album.
Nia made a megaphone with her hands around her mouth and screamed 'yes' into the open crowd.
Janice laughed beside her and followed suit.
No one expected it, but when Saint began trapping, it wasn't fast or violent like his other songs, this was low, mellow and slow, he looked around the room and locked eyes with someone behind Nia.
"Come up here hun," he said pointing at whoever was behind her.
Nia felt a sinking feeling in her stomach, she knew it was impossible that she wouldn't be the one he would pick but that didn't make the feeling less awful.
She held her breath as she waited for the girl to go up on stage, the lights moved around the room and then settled on her by mistake, she shifted forward a bit so she wouldn't take the spotlight from whoever was behind her.
Suddenly, Saint laughed heartily on stage. "The girl in a black off shoulder body con dress, I mean you. Come up on stage."
It took awhile for the words he said to sink in and Nia still didn't believe it until the crowd began cheering and Janice nudged her forward beaming.
She held her beating heart with both her palms and smiled as she walked through the crowd of people who created a path for her. She walked up the stage and let Saint take her hand.
He hugged her warmly and Nia believed she was on cloud nine at that moment and not because of the weed she had inhaled some minutes before.
"I hope I can make all your greatest fantasies come through." He whispered in her ears so that only her could hear before taking her hand and leading her to the center of the stage.
Nia walked behind him as she looked up to the man she had silently idolized for the past three years.
I actually prefer writing about Nia, bad habits and all.
