"I wish I was Jessie´s girl!"

Damian kept singing like if his life depended on that. He sang every song he knew and he even tried to repeat the new ones for him, like Jessie´s girl. When he was singing it he had tried to fix his mistake of exchanging the "had" to "was" but after the first try he noticed he didn´t felt comfortable with the real version. He preferred his version, that was the cause he hadn´t been eliminated the first week.

After he finished singing he sat on the floor and closed his eyes. He had one hour left before joining the others for the last homework assignment. He had an hour left to metalize himself to act mad at Cameron. He needed to be…

"I´m an awful actor!" he screamed at himself.

"That is not true; you are pretty cool." said voice from behind him. Damian stood up and looked over his shoulder scared. "Don´t worry, I´m not going to hurt you."

Damian groaned by Samuel´s comment but he didn´t added anything. He just stood up and grabbed his jacket from the floor.

"If you want the stage you can use it." Damian needed to act like if he hadn´t heard anything. "I finished here."

"Well, I came here because I wanted to talk you about Cameron. We had a talk last night and…"

"I don´t care." Tried to sound neutral, he appreciated the fact that Samuel wanted to help but…that wasn´t part of his plan.

"If you just listened…"

"Samuel, I don´t want to." This time he heard himself quite believe. Maybe he wasn't a bad actor after all.


"Okay kids, this is your last week and..." started Robert when he abruptly stopped his speech. "Damian, what happened to your face?"

Damian touched involuntarily to his now smaller bruise and looked up to Robert ashamed. Now he regretted not putting any make up on it. Cameron also blinked and bit his lip nervously. He wasn´t sure that Damian would cover him. He didn´t understand why he had covered him from the beginning but now he feared that Damian would burst out the truth. That he was a monster.

"I was in the shower and I felt." he lied again.

"Are you sure that´s what happened?" asked Ryan as he walked over Damian and pulled his chin up so he could see the bruise better. Damian groaned angrily.

"Yes, I´m sure." he tried to sound convincing this time.

Lindsay looked at Damian with an angry and annoyed look. Damian looked over her and gave her an apology smile. It was easy just to tell the truth, but it was painful. And besides, he had other plans to make Cameron to change his attitude.

Ryan nodded bitter sweetly and then stepped back. For an instant Damian´s and Cameron´s eyes connected. Cameron tried to make a smile but Damian jus gave him a plain look. With no anger, sadness or happiness, just a look. Just a numb look.

Meanwhile Lindsay was looking at Cameron with killer eyes and Samuel in the other side was looking at Damian with an interest look.

Damian moved his eyes from Cameron and put them over Samuel. The older one was about to look away ashamed of being caught staring when something in Damian stopped him. It wasn´t something in a physical way, it was more in his aura. Samuel had that special ability of catching what people may be feeling just by the scenes they emanated. What he felt toward Damian wasn´t hurt or rage, it was something like pity mixed with love. Now Samuel understood, Damian was still in love with Cameron. So what had happened before was…acting?

"Okay well let´s start with your performance." exclaimed Robert wanting to make the atmosphere a little bit less tense. The four guys moved to the stage but there weren´t any happy faces around them. Lindsay was standing next to Damian and Samuel was next o Cameron facing the other guys.

The music stared and some green and red lights stated blinking.

Dom, doom, doom...everyone started singing. Damian was the first one to sign and when he stepped in the middle of the stage he couldn´t fake a smile. He tried but his eyes looked empty and his mouth couldn´t move from a grin.

"Just a small town girl. Living in a lonely world." started Damian but Ryan interrupted him.

"Stop, stop, stop." The music went dead and so the lights. Damian stood there not knowing what to do. Ryan had stopped his performance and he seemed really upset. Damian wanted to die of the shame; he had done so badly?

"Did you guys put any choreography?" he asked the guys. The three boys looked over Lindsay that had told them not to put a chorography this time; to make it more natural, she had told them. Now the girl was covering part of his face with her hair and biting her lip ashamed.

"We...we did but..." she stuttered but Ryan interrupted her, he seemed mad.

"Because it looks kind of flat."

Cameron put his hand on a fist and closed his eyes. It was their last week and everything they did had to be perfect. They needed to prove they were the best of the bests. And if Ryan had stopped them before even starting they must have sucked. Well, if you saw it coldly Damian had sucked. But that wasn´t possible, Damian was by far one of the best of them. Or at least better than him.

"I think you need some help." after that Ryan walked toward the door leaving the guys looking at each other worried. Involuntary Damian peeked over Cameron that looked away immediately.

Ryan opened the door and after that the screaming began...8 teenagers entered to the room screaming and running like crazy. The 4 contestants recognized the immediately and they joined them in the screaming. Damian opened his mouth and looked around before running over Hanna. Cameron also ran toward her but when he saw that Damian had won he changed his mind and hugged Marissa instead.

"Hanna, I missed you so much!" said Damian as he kissed the girl on the cheek and keep hugging her. She was crying loudly and it seemed almost impossible for her to let go Damian.

"I missed you too." after some more minutes she let go Damian and Cameron used that opportunity to hug Hanna. After all she was his friend to. "Cameron!"

Damian moved away and looked at his two friends hugging. He wanted to be there but he needed to make a point with Cameron. He wasn´t mad at him and neither he hated him; he just felt hurt. Maybe it wasn´t the best way but he needed you show Cameron how wrong he had acted. He was staring to regret his little plan.

"Damian what happened to your face?"

The one million question, he thought as he turned around to face Emily that as Ryan had made took him by the chin to inspect the bruise.

"I felt on the bathroom." he explained as the other ones gathered around him. Everyone was asking him about and talking between them.

"You know that Damian isn´t clumsy." suddenly said Lindsay with a bittersweet voice.

"Now guys lets start again and this time I promise not to interrupt." said finally Ryan as everyone went to their positions. This time Damian went next to Cameron after Hanna asked them to be next to her. Like old times. Damian had agreed without making a lot out of it but Cameron hadn´t stopped smiling since the proposal. Maybe he had blown out things with Damian before but now...he had a chance to at least steal him a smile.

"Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world." this time Damian was smiling. He was so happy to see Hanna that it was easy for him to smile without forcing it. "She took the midnight train going anywhere." After he sang his part Damian moved next to Cameron and he couldn´t help to wish to hold his hand. He wanted to but the bruise reminded him to stay calm, stay cool.

"Just a city boy; living on south Detroit. He took the midnight train going anywhere." Sang Lindsay with all her heart.

"Some will win. Some will lose. Some will have to sing the blues." Samuel couldn´t help to peek of where Marissa was standing and everyone noticed; just as everyone noticed the real meaning of Cameron´s next action.

"For a smile they can share the night" Cameron walked over the middle of the stage but not alone. He was holding hands with Damian. "It goes on and on and on and on" Cameron made Damian made a turn and then they were forced to back up some steps to give Lindsay and Samuel some space.

"What are you doing?" asked Damian shocker but he didn´t let go Cameron´s hand. It was warm and for a strange reason, he felt safe

"Strangers waiting, open down the boulevard. Their shadows are searching in the nights." Lindsay and Samuel had great chemistry but being honest. Everyone was too surprised about Cameron and Damian´s pairing that they practically gave no attention to the others.

"Street light people." Cameron and Damian moved to the front again and Cameron out his arm around Damian´s waist. The judges and some of the ex-contestants gasped shocked. Even Damian felt his legs weak and his lungs breathless. "Living only by an emotion." Damian pushed Cameron a little bit with his elbow kind of uncomfortable. "Hiding somewhere in the night."

"Don´t stop believing; hold on that feeling, street light people." Cameron took Damian again and pulled his closer. Lindsay was about to interfere but Samuel also grabbed her and hugged her as Cameron was doing with Damian. "DON'T STOP!"

When the music ended Cameron kissed softly in the lips.

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The slap sounded across the room in an empty smack. Cameron touched his cheek aware that Damian hadn´t used a lot of force in the hit. Lindsay and Samuel looked over the two boys trying to figure out what to do. Meanwhile everyone had their mouth opened in shock; even the two judges were looking at each other confused. The two best friends of the whole competition were fighting. Robert wondered if it was the pressure of the competition but Ryan knew that it wasn´t.

"How does it feel?" whispered Damian as he walked over Cameron. His eyes were watering and the hot sensation in his hand from the slap made him sick. "How does it feel to be in the other side?"

Cameron looked up and tried to decode the look on the younger guy´s eyes.

"I am so sorry."

"I know that already. But that is not enough."

Damian looked over the judges and noticed how Ryan made him a sign to follow him out. Damian sighed and followed him with his head low. Okay, maybe the slap wasn´t part of the plan but it had worked. He had put Cameron in his previous position and maybe it would make him open his eyes. Now the problem was that he was in trouble for hitting a partner.

When they were out of the room Ryan closed the door behind him and Robert. The two older men looked at him with accusative looks. Damian took a big breath and tried to find a good excuse for his previous behavior. Nothing was good enough or it had something to do with telling the judges about Cameron´s previous behavior.

"So what was that?" asked finally Robert. Damian raised his shoulders and started playing with his feet. He didn´t want to look at Ryan´s eyes. They were too deep and mysterious. They seemed able to read souls and minds.

"Don´t give us that "I don´t know" look." Robert took Damian by the shoulders and made him look up. When the irish guy look over him he had some tears falling from his blue eyes.

"I think it was something more of self defense than only violence itself."

Damian looked over Ryan and begged with his eyes to keep shut. The producer read the pledge on Damian´s eyes but he didn´t pay attention to it.

"Those bruise wasn´t made by accident, right Damian?" Damian knew what that meant. If Ryan knew about Cameron´s recent actions he would be kicked out of the program. "Someone punched you."

Ryan kept teasing, Damian let some tears fall ashamed. He felt weak and lost again. He didn´t want Cameron to lose… He didn´t knew what he wanted anymore! He had loved the kiss and slapping Cameron had felt so wrong.

"Please, don´t kick him out!" Damian finally burst out; Ryan blinked shocked. He was protecting the one that had hurt him in the first place? "Let him finish the competition."

"Why do you want that?" Robert tried to decode Damian´s eyes but it seemed that the only one capable of doing that was Ryan.

"Because he did what he did because he was scared and it wouldn´t be fair to take away his chance." Damian cleaned his tears and looked at Ryan with a confident look. He needed to convince Ryan on any cost.

"What he did to you was fair?"

"No but it´s like Glee." Ryan approached Damian intrigued by the relation.

"What do you mean?" Damian smiled noticing that he had caught the writer's attention.

"Everyone deserves a second chance. Like, all the times Santana does something wrong everyone forgives her and she keeps on the Glee club."

"But that is only T.V."

"And why this would be any different. We are surrounded by cameras."

Ryan laughed and looker over Robert that was trying to hide his smile. Damian also smiled, the battle was almost won. But he needed to make sure Cameron was safe.

"So Cameron is staying?"

"Yes but the condition is that he you two can´t be alone any minute and if anything happens to you he is out." Ryan couldn´t believe an eighteen year old had won him.

Suddenly a girl´s scream and the sound of another slap made the three of them turn to see the door.

"You are so dead Cameron." screamed a girl Damian recognized as Emily and then some chairs falling.

"Emily let go off him!" this time it was Hanna´s voice that everyone heard.

Damian could imagine the scene. Emily being hold by Bryce or maybe Samuel and Cameron on the floor with his other cheek red. All the girls surrounding them screaming shocked and maybe some guys helping Cameron get up.

"I think we also need to get that kid some protection too." joked Ryan as him and Robert ran into the room. Now, alone in the hall Damian wondered what was next.

"What is happening here!" shouted Ryan angry over the other teenagers. Damian smiled, he needed to go back inside in the first place.


So my newest chapter and there will be more of drama in the next one. Hope you enjoy reading it and please Review !