Note: Dear All, you've been so great to read this.sorry it took so long to get up.I've been having a serious case of a lot of homework, and it's just subsiding.

What I Want, Chapter Fifteen.

Her heart was beating faster than a tribal drum. Stage fright and nerves were not something that was supposed to be in place the night of her first ever gig. She closed her eyes, and pushed them out of her mind. Car wasn't nervous, especially since Mitch had been a lot more attentive to her lately. Mitch wasn't nervous.he couldn't be. Dan was nervous, but that was how he was, not to mention that a certain teacher was in the audience. And she was nervous-not because she didn't know what she was doing, and not because she was afraid she'd screw up, the pressure had always motivated her, not scared her-but because she thought, maybe, just maybe, he would be there, waiting for her after she got off of the stage.

That would be the way it always happened in the movies: Heroine does something she's been wanting to do, something fantastic, and the hero shows up.

Heroine is going about normal daily life when the hero shows up.

Heroine is coming home after a long day, and the hero shows up.

Anyhow, she couldn't think about that, when she should be thinking about the performance. It could be their first ever break, and that would be gorgeous for all of them.

By the time Jocelyn had kissed her cheek, and wished her good luck, she was shaking, and they weren't even on the stage yet.

She had to get this under control.

Then, they were out on stage, and they were warming up, and all of her nerves fled in the face of all the joy. She was finally going to do something substantial, something real. Something she'd always wanted to do. Finally.

Jocelyn came out on stage. "Hey everybody, and welcome to Aqua, tonight we've got The Bringers, a smashing band from Ireland, and opening for them, a group that in their own right deserves the spotlight, Sleeping Starlight." She clapped, and everyone else clapped, and then the lights on the stage grew. They were starting off with "Eyes." Or Scott's song.

The spotlight was on Dan, just at first. And he played, and as Kitty sang, the spotlight grew on her, and as Mitch played, his spotlight grew, and Carmine played, and she got the spotlight on her, and then, they were all spotlighted, and playing.

And the song went off flawlessly, and so did the next song, and the next. And at the end of the set, the audience applauded vigorously. And one man in the back, his eyes shaded with red sunglasses, began to cry.

Kitty walked off stage, and she was happy. And Mitch was happy, and Car' was happy, and Dan was happy. Suddenly Mitch and Car' were kissing, and Professor Jopelain came back to congratulate them, but he only talked to Dan.

Kitty fell off the edge of the earth.

She walked out, letting the others fall into their romantically happy abyss, and made her way to her apartment.

Where the man in the red sunglasses followed her.