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"Aww...." Both me and Prerna rushed towards him as we enveloped him in a group hug. He was like a brother to me and I was the sister he never had. So, it made me feel a bit guilty to give him a bit of a hard time after all the hard work he had done.
"You both are always special to me," Prerna reassured him but still didn't forget about me.
"But I'm a bit more special than her," look at the guts of this guy. I gave him a stinky eye as I retorted, "yeah, because you are an ogre who needs more love."
He pulled back with a protest, "hey! I am not an ogre!"
"Definitely are one, with that nasty attitude," Prerna chimed in, starting a new argument with him which continued between them.
"If I am an ogre, then you are my Fiona!" He used Shrek’s reference... What a brain he has got there... Of the size of the pea. He just dug his own grave.
"Hahaha... I amsonot green and we are definitelysonot living happily ever after," Prerna snorted, then she suddenly turned towards me asking, "do I look all green to you?"
I just shrugged innocently not wanting to get dragged into it again.
"Then, that's it! We are breaking up," announced Prerna turning back to Mayank making his mouth drop open but didn't surprise me greatly. This was the scene I was greatly accustomed to, and I also knew what was going to come next.
"I am sorry, baby! I said it as a joke, promise!" Mayank apologized with pleading eyes.
Prerna just raised her nose in the air in mock anger making Mayank give a short laugh, "okay, let's see if you can still be so angry at me even after this."
The lights dimmed when he clapped his hands twice and the center stage cleared off the people, who now stood on the side watching just as excited as us. I and Prerna shared a confused look. He hadn't told me anything about this part. It was a surprise for me too. What had Mayank arranged now?
The DJ started the music and I immediately recognized the all so familiar music of the song.Mi Gente.
The smoke cleared a bit and we could see silhouette of five guys on the center stage. The laser lights flashed around before the spotlight illuminated the five guys who started to dance. Their faces finally illuminated. And that was it, both I and Prerna screamed! It was not just us but everyone around cheered, shrieked or catcalled and what not. We were excited because it was a famous dance group called ‘Ikonista’ after all!
These guys were insanely amazing! One of my favorites too. And Prerna was completely crazy about them. And that was how I learned about them, through Prerna. It had broken my heart when I heard that they broke apart as a group. I don't know how Mayank pulled it out, getting all the boys together again, for this one party.
The song had only started and the first four verses of the song played through.
The crowd cheered as the performers did their famous contemporary fusion of dance styles. I honestly didn't know even the ‘D’ in the dancing styles and their performance made my already limited knowledge even more limited.
I recognized middle lines of the first verse of the song playing in the background. When there was shuffling and sliding and robot dance fusion and all that stuff that I couldn't possibly explain without being unjust.
By the end of the first verse, the dancers separated from their team formation and ran in different directions before occupying a higher location and resumed their dancing. It was difficult to choose whom to watch among the five, they were all brilliant!
I watched dancer Pratik for a while before shifting my eyes to Shrayas. We couldn't help but bob our heads and dance right where we were stationed. Anshuman was up with the DJ, both of their actions looked well choreographed. As if they had rehearsed it earlier.
‘Me Gusta’That was the one of the very few lines of the song that I could sing along, cons for not knowing Spanish language…
"Freeze!" Everyone shouted as we threw our hands up! Rohan did a little somersault over the table. While Ishant froze in the middle like a statue.
‘J Balvin, Willy William
Te Gusta’My confidence was as good as I was a native Spanish speaker just for these two lines. Cheap thrills of a dumb girl…
"Freeze!" I shouted louder than the last time, enjoying the thrill coursing through my veins.
The second verse was ending butit wasn't the DJ just playing the track, someone was singing the song over the mic. And surprisingly, it was sung well, like how a professional native Spanish singer would sing.
Everyone’s eyes now searched for the singer, including the Ikonista members who had stopped to look at who was singing. From the top of the stairs that led to the mezzanine, someone walked down wearing a black fedora rock star hat with a charcoal strip, red silk dress shirt under a black vest and midnight blue jeans.
The style of him holding the mic was enough to swoon, no wonder everyone cheered for him. I couldn't see his face properly, yet I couldn't help but admit how hot he looked. He elegantly removed his hat and threw it at the shrieking crowd who went hysteric with hooting and hollers upon seeing his face! Even Prerna was screaming her throat out beside me while all I could do was close my ears and give her a funny look.
I looked back at the new singer and gosh, he sure was a heartthrob! And the way he carried himself made him a rock star. From the corner of my eyes, Prerna jumped over Mayank to envelop him in a bear tight hug and bombarding him with kisses all over his face.
The Ikonista members chuckled in surprise as each of them gave the new guy a high five or a side hug while he continued to sing. I must say his Spanish was flawless! Even the accent! I wish I could someday speak that well, let alone sing.
