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The knock on the dressing roo out before a performance didn’t bode well for his abilities out there The first song ell, the single that had come out over the summer and cli, he’d fought tooth and nail to have the studio okay it for the perforht He needed her to hear it He needed her to know

Following the production assistant in the headset through the twists and turns back to the stage, he took a deep breath Singing thehe’d ever written for the first ti in front of an audience full of people and eventhee

He stood up on the stage, ca In her texts, before she stopped sending the the new tour and being in New York that night This was the performance of a lifetime, not only because ht show, but because he needed Keira to see this He needed her to know that she was the one for hi to back down After nearly a notebook of pages shredded and burned, he’d come up hat he needed to say to her What he needed the world to know about her

The crowd chanted for another encore, the second of the evening All the dancers iping the bottles of water, so them over their heads The poor dudes in the shark costu water all over everyone backstage

Standing backstage at Madison Square Garden, in the shadow of one of the biggest pop performers in the world, Keira lifted her caanism that made up Matty’s production tea experience of her life, but everything glowed less, shined less and dulled without Eric by her side

“Come on,” came cries from everyone in the vicinity So rooht, but others would be back on the stage in under a e only to return for another energetic song still h she knew there were, in fact three planned encores, if the fans chanted loud enough, the planned spontaneity was a testay of the entire creho put this thing on

Knohere everyone would be, also ht because she knew exactly where to be Perched on the edge of the stage, practically on top of one of the ale to capture Matty, her dancers and some of the fans in the front fes They’d love that shot Scra off the amplifier and around behind the druet as hts shining, looking out over everyone’s shoulders They’d feel like they had been up on stage with Matty throughout the show

Capturing that ic is what made Eric’s photobook so successful She hoped she’d be able to replicate it here and with other tours Proving to everyone, herself included, that it wasn’t a fluke, just because she was involved with him Because she was in love with hi his tour hadn’t meant that she’d left hio away, he stuck with her every second of the day If that was the only way she could be close to hi with her shots for the night and walking to the dressing roo in her ears

Opening one of theroom doors, there were several dancers who’d finished earlier staring up at one of the flat screen TVs mounted on the wall The man who haunted

her drea his heart out as he always did The door sla the tv turned, her roo her ar her to the TV

“Didn’t you say you were on tour with Eric Newcastle before you ca

“Yes, just a couple of weeks ago”

“Pause it!” she shouted “Sood, I can’t believe it” A flurry of bodies, still in costu for the remote

“Believe what? What is going on?”