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response.
     
    “Great! Okay. Rose, would you please come up
here?”
     
    Rose froze. Oh my god. This was not
happening. Liam expected her to sing in front of this sold out
crowd? She hadn't done that since high school. And suddenly,
flashbacks started rushing through her mind. An angry crowd
throwing trash at her from stage. Peers yelling expletives at her
as she tried to get through a song. Freezing up on stage and
running off mid-song to the nearest bathroom to empty the contents
of her stomach.
     
    But she was brought out of her flashbacks by
the sound of Liam's voice, calling out to her once again.
     
    “Rose?”
     
    She could do this.
     
    She remembered her thoughts on the first
night of tour. She had hoped this tour would change her for the
better. That Liam would somehow inspire her. Well, here was her
chance. If this crowd was different from her past, she could
finally confront her demons. She could finally have a music career
of her own. She could stop hiding her voice with the exception of
the shower and vocal exams in her music classes.
     
    She could do this.
     
    With slight hesitance, Rose reached up and
took hold of Liam's outstretched hand, climbing up onto the stage.
She grabbed the microphone that was being handed to her from a
stage hand, and slowly turned to face the crowd, mentally reminding
herself to keep breathing.
     
    “Everybody, this is my friend Rose. Please
give her a warm welcome!”
     
    Liam paused, allowing the crowd to cheer for
his friend for a minute before quietly asking her, “You know all of
my songs, right, Rose?”
     
    Rose nodded, still unable to speak due to her
stage fright.
     
    Liam smiled at her, then leaned over and
whispered in her ear, “You'll be great! Don't worry!”
     
    And with that, he began to play the opening
notes of Rose's favorite song of his. She smiled. This had to be a
sign. She could totally do this.
     
    Liam started off singing the opening verses
of the song, but Rose joined in on the chorus, and the crowd went
wild. Liam and Rose were both in shock, but for different
reasons.
     
    Liam was in shock because Rose had the most
beautiful voice he had ever heard. Like, woah. It took all he had
to continue playing the guitar while Rose sang. It was the most
magnificent, pure, angelic voice he had ever heard in his life. It
was even better than he had expected. He was barely able to focus
long enough to come in on the next part of the song. He almost
didn't want to, for fear of missing hearing Rose's voice.Rose, on the other hand, was in shock because the crowd
seemed to love her. What was going on?! The crowd loved her? It was
like nothing she had ever experienced before. People were clapping
along and cheering and shouting out her name and just wow. This is
what she had been missing out on by not singing in public? Because
this was great. She had never felt so wonderful in her life. So she
finished the song with even more vigor than before.
     
    As the song came to a close, Rose and Liam
received a standing ovation, but neither of them even noticed. They
were both staring at one another, completely enthralled in one
another. The world around them might as well have disappeared. For
all they knew, it was just them in that moment.
     
    “Meet me backstage in five minutes,” Liam
whispered into Rose's ear after the song while giving her a brief
hug. “I'll tell security to let you back.”
     
    Rose almost didn't register what Liam had
said to her, still in shock over the moment they had just shared,
not to mention that the beautiful song Liam had sung to her earlier
that night was still replaying in her head. Oh boy. Rose was
practically swooning. But she managed to nod her head and climb off
the stage, receiving pats on the back from people in the audience
surrounding her, congratulating her on a job well done. She had
never been so happy in her entire life.
     
    After five minutes had passed, Rose made her
way backstage, security nodding at her as