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the savings and travel. It was worth waiting for so long. Finally, he was here and the DaBlazers were going to rock his world and made this night unforgettable.
    He had prepared for this day for weeks. Made sure he rehearsed all their songs on the set list several times to be able to sing from the first chords until the last applause with them. His throat hurt, but for a change, he felt happy, something he couldn’t be bragging about very often.
    It was amazing to share the moment with his best friends Margo and Alison. Though being a single guy at a concert with a lesbian couple who didn’t waste a moment to very publicly and very indiscreetly display their affections for each other could hurt at times. Eric wouldn’t mind them much if they didn’t insist on having him stand between them to make sure he didn’t feel lonely or sad.
    Had it not occurred to them that with their altruistic effort they brought very few chances that he could maybe meet a hot cute metal chick at the concert? Probably not. But, honestly, knowing him for more than a decade they apparently had lost every hope that he was capable to meet any girl. Maybe he had an empty hole where others had a muscle called heart? Possible, but not quite close to reality. After all he had felt his heart crash once a long time ago and it took him years to recover if any recovery was possible after what he’d been through.
    He was functional now at least. He could enjoy some tiny things in life, including the most awesome rock concert of all time by the coolest band in existence. To add more to his best night ever, the girls had somehow managed to get VIP invitations to the after party.
    Eric did make the mistake to ask them how they had managed to get the invitations.
    “Nothing special, just gave mind-blowing BJs to the roadies,” the couple answered in perfect unison flashing their huge glossy pink smiles at him. Eric was not sure whether they were telling the truth or joking with him, but with those two he knew better than to try to find out the truth.
    The after party was something he’d never seen before. His eyes had probably turned round from his surprised looks – had he ever imagined being around so many rock stars while they all drank and partied hard… Eric could only hope that the round eyes were not a permanent damage to his face. Strangely, all of these stars suddenly felt so human, so normal. It was a strange thought. They were not made of metal or rock, even if they played in those music genres.
    Ali and Margo didn’t care how many stars danced around them – as if those two had set their minds on startling all of those great celebrities around them and making them wonder who these two new unknown divas were. Eric enjoyed watching their little show and cheering for them, but truth be told, here at the party he started feeling really lonely. He was never the type of a guy to go and talk to strangers – especially when those strangers were authors of multiplatinum albums and their faces had been decorating his walls for decades.
    That was the moment when she appeared in front of his eyes.
    That was not possible.
    Never ever in this universe!
    If his mind was playing some nasty games with his brain, this was the most painful game it could have chosen. If she were an illusion, a borne of his imagination, she looked too real, too beautiful, too much like her real self.
    I have kissed the skies looking into your eyes, he remembered the lyrics of his all-time favorite song by her band and those were the only words that would have described how he felt when their eyes locked for just a split second. Then she turned away, her flaming hair flying in the air and, as was proper to her status, started talking to the stars of the night – the DaBlazers.
    Eric was still close enough to be able to hear chunks of their conversation. At least he could hear her voice again.
    His insides trembled.
    The voice caressed his mind.
    He watched Drake DaBlazer wrap