CHAPTER ELEVEN: REAL

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So she dragged me to the rehearsal for the concert. They were even better than they were when they performed for my home town. Like, way better. I wonder why? For the actual concert, I opted to sit and watch side-stage, where I wouldn't be a distraction or in the way. Cam wanted me in the audience so she could pull me up on stage, but I told her to pick another girl or guy to live their dream. She smiled, but looked faintly disappointed. I gave her a hug before she went below the stage, and waited for the concert to begin. I heard the screaming girls, and knew it'd begun. The song was just as good as last time. Actually, it was better, even though I knew what was going on, and I wasn't a part of it.

When Cam came up, I watched her interact with the guy at her microphone, and I realised something. She hadn't handed him a guitar or anything, but she did act just like she had with me. And this guy, he was better looking than me. At least I thought so. It made me think about our relationship. Was it all an act? Did she act like this towards all guys? Was what we had even real? Somewhere in the back of my mind, a small voice knew the answer, but my insecurities got the better of me, and I was thinking irrationally. In that moment, I realised she hadn't looked at me once this whole concert, and she always seemed to be looking at him. She wouldn't even notice if I left. I didn't notice that the other girls were all doing the same, or that she was looking at me, way more than regularly. I just left

*P.O.V Change - 3rd person Camila*
She noticed, all right. But it wasn't like she could run off stage in the middle of a song and stop him. She had a commitment. At their break, she went looking for him. She asked all over, but none of the stagehands had seen him since the second song. She checked the bathrooms, the dressing rooms, she ran out to the tour bus quickly, she couldn't find him anywhere. In a hallway very similar to the one he'd been in when she found him after her mistake, she collapsed, sobbing. She'd lost him. She'd lost him, and it was all her fault.
It was all real. She loved him. Those were the last things she thought before she blacked out.

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