[center [font "times roman new" Thea stared at the tv as the picture came across the screen for the fifth time today. It was on a different news outlet but it was the same picture. The very picture that would define her life from here on out. [#DC143C "Did last night really happen?"] She asked out loud to her two roommates, not taking her eyes off of the tv screen. "It did," she heard April say from her spot in the kitchen where she was cooking dinner. April was done sitting on the couch after the third time the picture had popped up. Thea still couldn't believe that what happened last night actually happen, no matter how many times the photo aired.]]
[center [font "times roman new" "Have you decided if you're really going to do this or not?" She paused the screen and finally looked away to look at Jensen, her other roommate. He was curled up on the couch next to her, where he's been since the first airing. He was just as amazed and as stressed as she was that he had picked all of his nail polish off from his nails. "Think about how amazing it would be to be engaged, fake or not, to a rockstar!?"]]
[center [font "times roman new" The looked back at the paused screen, reading the head line. "Lead singer of Bat Boys is officially engage." With it was a photo of Thea and that very lead singer, fingers intertwined with their hands over their heads. Thea had a face of shock and he had a face of being very pleased with himself. In the corner was another photo of their hands, zoomed in to show the ring of Thea's finger which was actually one of the ones he was wearing that night that he put onto her in front of the sold out crowd. She looked down at the ring that was still on her thumb. Was she ready for this?]]
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[center [font "times roman new" [b The Day Before]]]
[center [font "times roman new" Athena James grew up in a small town. The type of town where nothing happens and no one leaves. Everyone knows everyone and her dad, who was the one to start calling her Thea, was one of the most known people in town. He's the sheriff of town, as clique as that sounds but it's true. But growing up, she felt like belle from Beauty and the Beast, wanting adventure in the great wide somewhere. And the somewhere was not the hoe down town that she grew up in. After graduating high school, she took on two jobs to save up enough money to move away as well to pay for a place to live until she could make the money at a new job in whatever city or town she moved to.]]
[center [font "times roman new" It took her a few years but she finally saved up enough and two weeks ago she had finally moved to New York City. She was able to find a nice apartment with two other people who she ended up bonding with rather quickly. Both of them were fans of rock and roll bands, chains, dark nail polish, and coffee. So much coffee. April is small pixie girl who cooks amazing food and is constantly dying her hair. The current color being purple. She actually helped Thea dye her hair when she moved it. Thea used to have caramel brown hair and now she has a fire-like color.]]
[center [font "times roman new" Jensen, their other roommate, has shoulder length brown hair. He always has his nails painted, wears move jewelry than her, and currently obsessed with some band called the Bat Boys. Which brings us to this moment now, the three roommates were slowly making their way to their spots at one of their concerts. Jensen had scored some tickets from a co-worker at his bar that came down with covid, along with the other people that co-worker had planned to take to the concert. April was ecstatic to go, while Thea would have been fine staying home but she has never been to a concert so she decided to tag along.]]
[center [font "times roman new" Thea was at the front of their group, making slow progress to their seating with such a long line in front of her but she finally made it to their spot. It was a pretty decent spot, it wasn't right at the stage but they were decently close enough. She turned to go down their aisle when a pair of hands grabbed her arm. "Nope, we're not actually sitting here, we're going right up front," Jensen said as he started leading her through the large crowd to get them to the front. [#DC143C "Won't we get in trouble if security catches us?"] She complained, though she wasn't really fighting him. The idea of being right up front sounded exciting.]]
[center [font "times roman new" "Hell no, they are more worried about girls getting topless and the guys doing coke in the bathroom." Thea quickly looked back at him, shock on her face. Before she could say anything, she bumped into the fence that separated the crowd from the stage. She still didn't have time to say anything because as soon as opened her mouth, band members started to come out onto the stage and the crowd drowned out any words she even thought to say.]]