I stand before the mirror and admire Jessica's handiwork.

"Wow. I didn't know I could look that good," I say surprised at my appearance. While I always tried to look decent and put on light makeup, this was something I had never even thought of doing. I stare at the mirror trying to come to terms that the girl staring me back was indeed Evelyn Jones. I had opted for a navy blue off-shoulder shirt with jeans and my hair was styled into two dutch braids while Jessica was dressed in a maroon jumpsuit. way to make a statement Jessica...

It was the night of the concert and despite the fact that I had gotten a truckload of assignments in only the first week of college I had not been able to convince Jessica that I didn't want to go to the concert. She had simply ignored my protests and had talked so much about how excited she was about going that I had dropped the topic of not going. Basically I had been guilt tripped into agreeing.

Jessica had spent the afternoon doing my and her's make up despite my objections that I was not attending a formal dinner and could do well with light makeup but my protests had fallen on deaf ears.

And here I was looking in the mirror, at the girl who looked as if she had dropped straight out of a fashion magazine, with Jessica hovering over me with a triumphant look in her eyes.

"Loverboy is in for a treat tonight," Jessica smirks at me.

"Come on Jessica. Not again. Just drop it already," I say exasperated.

Just as I had predicted Jessica had grilled me for the details of whatever had happened with Cade the moment I came to my room. Our exchange had gone something like this:

I close the door of the room and fall face down on the bed, exhausted.

"Hi. You look dead tired," Jessica laughs at my action.

"No kidding," I retort.

"Okay. All things aside. Tell me what the hell was Cade talking about at lunch today," she doesn't waste time beating around the bush.

"What are you talking about ?" I ask innocently knowing full well what she was talking about.

"No No NO. Don't even go there you know what I am talking about. First impressions? I thought you guys were meeting for the first time," she doesn't buy whatever I am saying.

"We were," I say but the look she gives me scares me so much that I surrender.

"Fine. I might have embarrassed myself a little bit in front him"

"DETAILS,'' Jessica screams like the crazy person she is.

and ten minutes later Jessica was rolling on the floor laughing her ass off while I just sat there not amused even a bit.

Ever since then she has been going on about how Cade liked me and it was annoying the hell out of me.

Just as I am about to reprimand her again there is a knock on the door and I give her a stern look mentally telling her not to say anything stupid in front of Cade. She moves her hand in front of her lips in a gesture that her lips are sealed. 

Satisfied with her answer I move towards the door while Jessica picks up her shoes that she hasn't worn yet.

I open the door to see Cade leaning against the wall in front of our room.H e is dressed in jeans and a black T-shirt that hugs his figure, making his muscles even more prominent.   

"Hi," I greet him quickly not wanting him to notice that I was checking him out. 

"Hello," he replies pushing himself off the wall.

"You look beautiful," he says as he looks me up and down. 

"Thanks. you don't look bad yourself," I answer sheepishly and turn around signaling him to come inside as the familiar smirks make its way on his face.

"Are you ready Jessica? Cade's here."

"Yeah. let's go," she answers and we pile out of the room.

Jessica locks the door and I stand there feeling flustered, trying not to look at Cade who is still staring at me. It's going to be a long night for sure.

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I sigh in relief as we finally find our seats and I flop down in the nearest one. Cade sits down next to me while Jessica takes the seat next to him.

Despite being a little lat,  we got good seats, just a little way from the stage.

"Man, I can't believe I am going to see Jackson perform live. Ever since I heard one of his songs last year, I fell in love," Jessica says excitedly.

''Same here'', Cade's voice matches her enthusiasm. I just stay quiet and listen to them.

"He is so hot now but I saw his pictures from when he was younger and he was so cute. He must have had girls falling at his feet even then,'' Jessica gushes.

"I never noticed,'' I snort at her comment. Cade and Jessica both turn around to look at me and just then  I realize my mistake.

''What do you mean?" Jessica asks, confused.

''I mean I didn't notice that you were a fangirl until Cade mentioned Jackson Miller,'' I say quickly, trying to cover my slip up.

"Oh okay," Jessica says, and thankfully, turns her attention towards the stage as the host welcomes Jackson Miller on stage.

My heart beats rapidly as I see him come up on stage, his electric guitar hung around his shoulder and his ash-blond hair ruffled in the light breeze. While the crowd stands on their feet to welcome him I remain seated.

I look at him trying to see the boy whom I grew up with, who held my hand on our first day of school despite the fact that he was just as scared himself, who sneaked out of his house to get me ice cream when I had my first breakup but instead I see a boy putting up a facade. He smiles but the smile doesn't reach his eyes. This is not the Jackson Miller I grew up with. I find him nowhere in the guy standing on stage waving at his fans as he prepares to sing the first song of the evening.

Its been two years since I last saw him but I never knew people can change so much in two years.

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The crowd goes wild as jack finishes his last song. Everyone claps and hoots and shouts but I shut out all the noise as I quickly get up from my seat and push through the crowd trying to get backstage. I know I should have informed Cade and Jessica but too much is going in my brain right now for me to do the sensible thing.

This is the very reason I didn't want to come tonight. I have a lot of pride and when I had realized that there was no getting out of coming to this concert, I had told myself that I would go the concert and back straight to my room but even then,  deep down I knew that the moment I see him I would want to meet him.

There are a lot of crew people standing in my way but I get lucky and they don't notice me as I walk past them quickly, making my way to the largest cabin that I can spot.

But my luck runs out the moment I sign in relief.

"Mam, you can't be here. I am sorry but I have to ask you to turn around.", a security guard stops me as I reach Jack's cabin.

" Please, can I just meet him for five minutes.", I plead.

"I am sorry but Mr. Miller is tired. I hope you can understand.'', he tells me in a soft voice like this is not his first time disappointing a fan.

"Please, I know him. Just tell him Evelyn Jones is here to meet him. If he doesn't want to meet me I will go back", I tell him confidently but my heart clenches at the possibility that Jack might not want to see me. I know I am being foolish. Despite my claim that I am a realist, I am clinging to the hope that he wants to see me although the fact that we haven't talked for one and half year points in a very directions.

the guard looks at me for a minute and then signals me to follow him. He approaches a good looking man in his early twenties and they talk about something as I stand a little way behind. the guard gestures towards me and the man looks at me with curious eyes. He approaches and says.

"Hello! I am Wade. Jackson Miller's manager slash best friend. Kevin tells me you claim to know Jackson. ", he says in a cheerful voice.

"I do know him.", I say sounding rude even to my own ears. I don't why but the moment he said best friend I wanted to strangle him. Calm down, Evy. You are too young to go to jail.

'' No need to be angry', He says taken back by my outburst.

" I am sorry. I didn't mean it like that", I say feeling embarrassed.

"It's okay. Come on I will ask Jackson and if he wants to meet you though I highly doubt that, no offense to you, I will let you in" he tells me as he starts walking towards the cabin and I follow him silently.

"You are not the only one doubting that, Wade."I mouth to myself.

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

this is the longest chapter I have written so far. hope you enjoyed it.

Jessica's comment that she fell in love after hearing Jack's one song is actually based on one of my best friend cause she heard one song of Shawn Mendes and she was whipped :))))))))

I am curious to know which singers you guys listen to.

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