"When the stars shot down sooner or later, you will also come"

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The first song ended and with it the wave of applause seized the group of people. Kotoko stood in the center and raised her arms open to the public receiving applause with appreciation, grinning broadly from ear to ear.

She came down with the hand that held the microphone, saying:

"Thank you!" She exclaimed giggling. "Next one goes for you"

The song of "La sirena Varada" by Héroes del Silencio.

When she was on the bridge of the song, she leaned down on her knees at the edge of the stage, smiling as she sang with that sparkle in her eyes that was so unique from where he watched her with such longing guarded in his mind.

The spectators put their hands in apparent admiration, trying to reach it from where they were; She, of course, accepted the gesture, shaking hands automatically.

For a moment he felt envious, that uncomfortable feeling he first experienced when Kotoko won the basketball game that summer day, where Ryo touched her face and that palpable feeling gave him a bad experience. A bad run. He hated when men touched her. Sure, men other than him.

She winked at them before she stood up and continued walking aggressively against the floor with her feet rumbling on the stage, shaking her hair.

She set her presence on stage, completely dominated by the cries of the audience and the pressure she had to exert to keep up with the speed of the guitars and the textures of the sound that required a lot of control at the time of singing.

At the end of the song, she let the wave of applause sound again, waiting with a bright smile for the calm of the spectators. She waved a hand to the musicians who were waiting for her with the instruments at the point of being played. She seemed to indicate something, first an expression of pause.

"We'll take it easy" She assured from the microphone, trying to calm the students. "We will play a song in English a little different from the previous ones" They pouted pessimistic about the matter, to which she responded. "If you don't like it, you can retire, if not you can stay" The second signal she made to the musicians, prior to the beginning of the song of "Cold as ice" by Foreigner, the keyboard welcomed a classic that sometimes she put on the stereo when she said that she had done badly with one of her classmates at school and had been grimacing in disgust.

His heart rumbled loudly as soon as he saw her coming down the stage by the side of the stairs in his direction in a mischievous manner, and the audience began to shout louder; he, on the other hand, felt his cheeks redden to the point of burning in his face, being so he wanted to retreat from the place, but the fact of seeing her go to him for whatever reason, it caused him a curious sensation.

She practically told him that he was cold as ice.

She approached him, moving her eyebrows and hands in a dancing gesture, his heart was beating dangerous ravages because of her fault, since the sensations increased as his static face lost the sanity of which he was so used to.

The moment the instruments seized the sounds, in that brief moment, their eyes met with the entrance of her voice as she said several times 'cold as ice' as a bad omen.

He colored like a tomato, wishing with all his might not to be so notorious with his feelings that they were on the verge of exploding overboard in a wave of sensations cast with his feelings at lotus flower.

He wanted to believe that the perspective she had regarding him had changed, but it wasn't like that, no, she told him that he was cold as ice in front of all the spectators; The funny thing was not feeling humiliated, because inside he knew that she was telling the truth.

He was a person as cold as ice, because of the circumstances that would have triggered such behaviors in relation to his past, but that intervened with his main objective that was to conquer Kotoko as it would give rise.

If he didn't have her love, of nothing it wouldn't help him to have changed.

He saw how she returned to the stage and finished the presentation with another couple of songs, which after all were not as well known as the previous ones, but that still caused the students to notice her as a participant of the contest, that is, to take her seriously.

Obviously he didn't think so, but he had to admit that she looked attractive (more than usual), he even wanted to tell her she looked beautiful, but he wouldn't do it because it didn't match his personality.

That was a difficult inconvenience to overcome, because sooner or later, someone besides him will have her in the spotlight in case of being someone daring, spontaneous, who would like to have her. Another who noticed her and was a dangerous rival. Just thinking about it, his blood boiled as a breeding ground about to explode in the pot; he wouldn't allow another man to take her off when there was a possibility that this individual had other options besides Kotoko. Instead, he only had one option and was the only one he wanted for him.

He made it clear that he didn't like her because she was pretty, or because she was attractive, but because she made him feel special, something he never considered one of her outstanding qualities. She saw something in him that nobody was interested in seeing, and that made the difference between the other girls who only noticed him because of his appearance and his intelligence, not in the other attributes of his attractive physique.

Instead, her love made him a better person.

Although she was not in love with him, it showed that she appreciated him, he felt her love of friendship that was a very sincere one.

Of course he loved her, and he loved her very much.

That is why he will not stop to have her for him; At least that was what he expected to believe.

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P.S. (Mention to the song "La sirena Varada" by Héroes del Silencio)

NOTE: We see that Kotoko has taken herself very seriously with the contest and has thrown an indirect to Naoki.