Epilogue…. Sorta

MAX

"Excited?" Jacob was asking me as he tuned Iggy's bass for him.

I try to force a smile onto my face as I nod.

An arm coils around my waist.

"Don't worry."Fang is murmuring in my ear. "You look amazing. You are amazing. You're going to be great. Remember what we practiced?"

I nod again, my mind drifting to the long hours that we'd spent in that dance studio practicing moves and rehearsing. We'd done it so many times it would be impossible to forget them.

"We're opening with Something I Need, right?" Nudge is calling as she comes pacing into the offstage area, having to shout slightly over the sound of the band that's opening for us.

Gazzy nods.

I take a huge breath and wrung my hands together.

Fang and I were singing that song.

I was singing the opening song of the concert in my debut performance.

Holy crap.

I whirl around, ignoring everybody in my sudden panic, and start walking down the hallway, trying to steady my breathing. Fang is following silently, taking my hands in his and turning me to face him.

"Max." He's laughing quietly, his breath blowing on my face. "Calm down. You're going to be fine."

"But… I…. You…. Don't know…. Gahhhhh" I'm stuttering, clutching his hands with everything I had.

"Breath, Max." Fang's making exaggerated breathing sounds. "In, out. In, out."

I nod, doing as he says and feeling a little better.

"We're going to be great." He states surely, throwing an arm around my shoulders and walking me back to the band. "The crowd will love you as much as I do."

"Thanks." I mumble, kissing his cheek and wrapping my arm around his back.

"Any time." He smiles crookedly at me before taking his arm off of my shoulders and stepping away from me to tune his guitar.

Nudge is at my side that instant. "Oh my goodness are you excited? I'm excited. Are you nervous? It's okay so am I. You look pretty. We're going to sound great. Right? Right. Oh jesum this is so insane. Did you ever think that we'd actually be standing here, getting ready to go out and preform in front of millions of people? I didn't. This is so amazing and I don't' even know what's going on because we're going to be heading out on stage in like, how long? Ten minutes? Twenty? Thirty, forty, fifty? I have no idea. This is totally crazy…."

I let her rant, lost in my own thoughts as I try to prepare myself for what's ahead.

"Ten minutes guys." A man in a headset says, holding up ten fingers as he rushed past us. "Get your mics set."

All of a sudden we're standing in a line, somebody's strapping a receiver to the belt of my black skinny jeans and is dropping a chord down the back of my tank top. A clear microphone is hooked around my ear and runs to my mouth.

I glance around at everybody, nervously twiddling my thumbs. My hands are smoothing down the flowy white tank top I'm wearing and my jeans begin to feel constricting.

I take another breath and close my eyes.

This is happening. I think to myself. You can do this.

Fangs fingers lace into mine as the music of the opening band stops and the lights go dark.

"I believe in you." He whispered in my ear, flipping his guitar over his shoulder. "I love you."

"I love you too." I whisper shakily, clutching his hand like a lifeline.

"Close your eyes." He breathes. "You hear that?"

I close my eyes and hear the muffled, excited screams of the crowd. I nod.

"That's all for you. For us." I feel him kiss my forehead. "Now let's do this, come on."

He lead me forward through the darkness of the stage and dropped my hand to get into position. Fans in the front row see us walk out and started screaming, which erupted through the whole stadium.

Gazzy started tapping the base drum into the darkness and the crowd goes quiet. Fang strums his guitar quiet and I see one girl in the front row faint. Iggy starts harmonizing with the bass, playing softly.

I take a breath and start counting the beats.

And here we go.

HELLO FRIENDS!

Okay so... I'm incredibly sorry for the late update but i have been sooooooo extremely busy that I have had literally ZERO time to get onto the computer to post this.

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