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“I look up to you too!” Sweets says, “Wait here today, and let’s go together to the after party!”
“It’s a deal!” I say.
After another hug, she moves towards the stage to start her own set. Brody is already waiting by my side, back in uniform and the stiff body stance he always sports while working.
I grab a towel to pat dry my sweat, then get on the tip of my toes to kiss him on the corner of his mouth. “I’ll stay around here, Sweets asked me to. Is that okay?”
“Absolutely,” he says, smirking. “As long as I’m with you, you’re safe.”
I smile again, feeling protected and safe. Finding a free plastic chair, I take a bottle of fizzy water from the cooler and take a seat to rest.
My dress has a front pocket, where I stashed my phone just for the occasion. I enter my profile in the streaming app, and start up a live video feed, a thing I’ve been neglecting lately.
“Hello, everybody! Any guesses where I am?” the first users hop in, sending cheers and good vibes.
“That’s right! I’m at the Sweets Tyler concert in New Orleans, Louisiana, and she is just getting started!”
How was your show?lenina_trois asks in the chat.
“My show was great, I think it was the best one of the tour so far! Anyone here already seen the shows, or is waiting to see one?”
I saw u in NY!
I’mma see you in California.
I’m going to see you tonight…
Bartleby Jones has joined the chat. Paralyzed, I’m not sure what do, or even what to say.
“Bartleby, you’re not welcome here! I thought I blocked you!” I complain. The chat is full of confusion.
Don’t be afraid, Lily. I love you.Bartleby posts.
“You stabbed my bodyguard! That’s how you show love?”
You will love me too someday.
I bite down on my lip, getting terrified at a quick pace. “Alright, let me kick you out of here!”
I block Bartleby from the chat. “Now folks, I’m sorry. This is a guy who’s been bothering me and my crew for quite some time right now. We don’t know what else to do to get rid of him. Let me just talk to Brody here, and… Brody?”
I look over my shoulder, but Brody is nowhere to be found. Something must have caught his attention while I was distracted. There’s another security officer posted in his place, but he’s not the man I want.
“Guess Brody had to make an exit,” I say with an awkward smile, “But how about we watch a couple moments of Sweets show, huh?”
I flip the camera to face the stage, and start narrating what I see “Have any of you guys ever seen this view? From backstage?”
BatlebyJones_3 enters the chat. I kick him out immediately. All he does is just alter the number on his handle and try again and again. In the end I give up and just close the chat.
“I’m not looking at the chat anymore, Bartleby!” I shout, “let the other people talk!”
I keep on conducting the live stream, when I sense somebody approach me from the back, someone I assume to be Brody at first, but they are wearing a staff uniform.
I keep on talking and that person keeps on standing by me; I’m thinking nothing of it, but then they get closer and closer.
“Alright, folks, has anyone seen my bodyguard?” I ask live, nervously, looking over my shoulder and alerting the officer standing nearby to come to my aide.
I’m standing, ready to leave, when the anonymous person comes even closer to hug me, “I missed you, Lily!”
