You all should know by now that I'm no one and own nothing and that this all fake. If not let me repeat just to be clear—NONE OF THIS IS REAL AND I'M JUST BEING A WEIRDO AND I OWN RIGHTS TO NOTHING MENTIONED HERE WHATSOEVER.
Now that we have that out of the way... thanks for still reading! This is the exciting chapter.
Written in Tommy's POV.
Holy shit, I'm so excited. We've been planning this surprise for almost a month (well Sauli's been planning this surprise for almost a month, I should say) and it's only minutes away from happening. And the best part is that Adam's completely clueless.
I tried to hide the obnoxiously huge grin that was slapped across my face as we started playing the intro to Good Old Fashioned Loverboy, but I don't know how well I did. We had gone over exactly how we were going to do this a hundred times, so I wasn't nervous, I'm sure Sauli's a wreck right about now, though. Casually, I walked back towards me and Ashley's amps once we were a few seconds into the song. We had everything planned out almost to the second, I knew which line was my cue to start heading back there: "Be your Valentino just for you." As Adam was doing his thing up at the front of the stage and not paying any attention to us, I grabbed the signs I had made earlier and held up the first one. We told the people working the cameras that there was going to be a surprise and to zoom in on the signs that I was going to hold up so that everyone in the audience could see them on the huge-ass screens on the sides of the stage.
The first one was a warning so that the fans didn't give anything away: "DO NOT SCREAM, we're surprising Adam!" Once they had all had a second to read that I held up the second one. "Get your goddamn video cameras out though!" Yeah, I like to think they had my personal flair to them. I dumped the signs back onto the amps and caught Sauli's eye from where he was standing off to the side of the stage and nodded at him, grinning like an idiot. Neil and Sutan were standing next to him, clearly ecstatic, and I saw Neil kiss the top of his head right before he started to walk on stage. The rest of this was all him now.
As part of our plan, Sauli was wearing an outfit that was really similar to my tour one and had a guitar in front of him. He wasn't actually going to be playing, I was going to be doing that near the back of the stage—we just needed him to look vaguely like me. It wasn't all that difficult of a feat; we were both kind of built the same, were around the same height, and had dirty blonde hair (I had gotten rid of my purple 'do, sadly).
The fans were fairly good at listening and didn't scream too much, at least not enough that Adam suspected anything was up. I wasn't even attempting to control my body language anymore—I was flipping euphoric. Sauli was being his goofy self in the few lines before the next cue and making faces at the fans and silently laughing about how he had no clue how to play guitar. He didn't seem nervous at all, but I knew he could just be putting on a front.
"That's because I'm a good old-fashioned loverboy..." when he sang the theatrical line he went to kiss me like we planned—except it wasn't me anymore. I giggled as our plan went off without a hitch. The moment Adam's lips met Sauli's he made a startled face, it was obvious that he could tell right away who it was. The crowd burst into cheers and Sauli held Adam there so that the kiss went on for a bit longer than it would have if this was a normal performance. But the real show was just about to happen.
When he finally pulled out of the kiss, dazed, Adam turned to the crowd. "That's not Tommy." he said, pointing sideways at Sauli. I chuckled. "Yeah, Tommy doesn't kiss me like that," he added. "You all know who he is, right?" the crowd cheered in response. I sneaked up in what I hoped was an inconspicuous manner to take the guitar back. It'd kind of get in the way if I didn't. I flashed Sauli a grin in the split second that I saw him. "This is my love, this is my Sauli, who I thought was halfway across the world tonight. And I'm babbling to fill time now, because I have no clue what's going on and the band stopped playing and that's a really weird feeling when you're on stage in front of 2000 people. Hey, baby, what's up?" He said, facing his boyfriend, making an hilariously awkward attempt at being calm.
"Hi," Sauli said, grinning. Okay, I admit I was getting a small amount of second-hand nerves here waiting for him to spit out the words. "So I wanted to ask you something kind of important. And I was talking with Neil and he said the only way to do it properly was on stage and I knew he was right."
It was at that point that Adam turned his slightly confused and apprehensive eyes away from his boyfriend to spot Neil, me, and Sutan near the back of the stage. Neil waved enthusiastically and Adam shook his head in shock. He really hadn't had even a slight suspicion. Damn, we're good.
When Adam turned his gaze back, Sauli wordlessly took the small box out of his pockets and got down on one knee, just like a good old-fashioned loverboy like the song said.
"Holy shit," Adam swore into the mic unconsciously, looking even more shocked than he had earlier. "Seriously?" he asked.
Sauli grinned. "Shut up, I haven't even asked you anything yet," he said playfully. I could hear Sutan dying from laughter next to me.
Adam laughed, relaxing a little bit at the very Sauli-like quip.
"Adam, I love you. A lot."
"I love you, too." I was smiling like a fucking lunatic but biting my lip and nervously flipping my fringe back at the same time.
"Will you marry me?" The squeal definitely must have come from one of the fangirls (or fanboys) in the audience. Or Sutan. Yep, it definitely wasn't me...
"Are you serious?" Adam asked again, clearly still in shock.
Sauli rolled his eyes. "No, Adam, I'm kidding."
I let out a muffled, "Ow!" as Sutan thwacked my arm. "Oh my god, if Adam doesn't marry that boy, I will." the drag queen said to me.
"I can hear you back there, you know. And you can't have him, he's taken." Adam said over his shoulder to us, grinning like a madman.
"Pay no attention to us, we're just here for the show!" Sutan replied. I could practically see all the cogs going a thousand miles an hour in Adam's head. He was just stalling by pointing out that he could hear us. He needed a second to put his thoughts together. But wait, did he say...?
"Adam? Was that a yes?" Sauli asked. I could finally see the nerves plain on his face. I had no clue how he had the guts to do this.
Adam pulled Sauli up from where he was still on one knee, his smile turning into that genuine, sappy one he always has when Sauli's around.
"Yes." They both just looked at each other for a second with that goofy in-love face, then Sauli took the ring out of the box and slid it onto Adam's finger. Adam leaned in and kissed him, one hand resting on Sauli's cheek and the other on his waist.
Adam turned to the audience, still holding onto Sauli, and held out his left hand, showing it off. "We're getting married!" he shouted, sounding like he was still slightly in shock. Fucking ecstatic, but still a little shocked.
Neil ran out onto the stage and hugged them both, shortly followed by Sutan. I hung back awkwardly, unsure as always of what to do with myself. The rest of the band kept a close but respectful distance.
"You all knew about this." Adam accused, looking around at all of us. "Every single one of you." We all nodded and I knew Sauli was laughing even though he was hidden from my view at the moment by Sutan. "I hate you all, you bastards!" The effect was ruined by the fact that he looked so insanely happy.
Neil eventually dragged me into what seemed like the mass of bodies and everything after that seemed was a hazy blur of hugging and smiling so much our faces hurt. I remember finally finding my way over to Adam to bear-hug him and mutter, "Congratu-fucking-lations" into his shoulder through the stupid grin I had on my face.
