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“Okay, thanks,” he said closing the door Wandering around he found the door he was looking for Standing in the hallway, he could barely breathe as he thought about what he would say Shit! He’d been working on the song for so long he hadn’t come up hat he would say to her when he saw her next

“Hi,” he said, sweat pouring off him

“Hi,” she said, shyly The dressing room door behind her renched open and she could feel everyone’s eyes glued to the at him, unable to break the connection between them

“I had to get it out I had to get it out in the world and let everyone kno I felt”

“Felt, do you not still feel that way,” she said, feeling really shy around him

“I wouldn’t have run ten of the longest city blocks in existence if I didn’t still feel that way, Keira,” he said, stepping forward and running his knuckles along her jaw “The question is, do you still feel the same way about me?”

“I wouldn’t have been running out of here to co, happy tears springing to her eyes

“It seee,” he said, hat looked suspiciously like tears in his eyes They stood there frozen for a long ti one another in

“Kiss her already,” cahed as she glanced behind her to see the doorway packed with ht possible They were all nuts, but they were pretty awesome

“I’ve never been one to let an audience down,” he said, threading his fingers into her hair and laying a kiss on her that curled her toes and made her knees weak He wrapped his arainst hi Solanced over her shoulder and it was Matty

“You two can have

“Thanks, Matty, but I think we’re going to stick to Eric’s bus tonight,” she said, handing back her card “We need to hit the road and we’ve got a lot of catching up to do”

“We sure do,” Eric said, swaying her back and forth to a rhythers pl

ayed along her back Matty broke out in her new hit ballad and the backup singers chi her in front of pretty much everyone tour as they crammed into the hall to watch the impromptu show

Epilogue