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JANE'S POV:
Walker and I rushed to the backstage where Gia had told him to meet, the music competition was going to start in a few moments as I could notice the jury gathering at the table which was facing the big stage. I gulped at the sight, they seemed to be harsh people to impress, I've never been to a competition before (and I will never be) so I couldn't know truly how that's like but I could imagine and it scared me to the bone.

"Something wrong, jeans?" I head Walker ask me while we were making our way through the many people towards the backstage, as we took the left where it was still very crowded I noticed, from a quite far distance, Gia and Lucy standing by the door and talking with Kyle, Ben and Noah, the boys from Walker's lacrosse team and friend group. I didn't answer him anything so he stopped a few feet away from the entrance of the backstage, the others were too focused on their talking and didn't notice us from the distance.

"Jane?" Walker asked again more sternly looking down at me, I wanted to tell him why we had stopped but all I did was to peek up at him and swallow again.

"You're trembling, baby, what's going on?!" Walker seemed so worried, his blue eyes searching me for anything he could have noticed it must be bad. I knew what was happening to me and I couldn't believe it was happening right then, truth be told I couldn't command my panic attacks when to take over me.

Those panic attacks started a few years ago when I was around 13 after my childhood friends, Mike and Amanda, broke up with me. My parents were very worried when the first panic attack had hit me: I was feeling dizzy and my head felt as it was going to explode making me feel so sick that my face turned pale. And so that was how I found out, from the hospital my parents took me to, I had a high level of anxiety. It was difficult for both me and my parents to help me with it, after few months I started to control it, yet in this moment seemed like it returned.

I tried to inhale and exhale in order to calm my heavy breathing and trembling body, this panic attack must have been caused by the image the music competition had offered me, an harsh jury and hungry public. "I'm fine" I mumbled between my heavy breathing, yet Walker didn't seem to believe me so he pulled me into a thight loving hug.

"Jane, talk to me, I'm here. I'm not leaving you. Please tell me what happened" Walker told me with a soothing voice, while rubbing my back tenderly. I had both my face and hands leaned on his chest trying myself to not burst out in tears because of the anxiety crisis, yet something from Walker helped me, I felt safe and blithe into his arms as I breathed out my anxiety away feeling my body relaxing.

"I'm okay... I promise..." I whispered and he seemed to heard me as he placed a soft kiss on the top of my head. Unfortunately I couldn't tell him the reason I was acting weird, I couldn't bore him or burden him with my own problems which only freaks sort of had, what would Walker think of me if I told him I have huge anxiety disorders? That I'm a weirdo.

Walker slightly pulled away to look down at me with his sweet smile, his thumb caressing my cheek as he pressed a kiss on my forehead muttering an "I love you" , I smiled to myself knowing that I had the best boyfriend in this entire world.

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"Here you are! It's bad, really really bad!" Lucy exclaimed from the door as me and Walker finally arrived at the backstage, the worry and excitement before the competition could be highly seen on her face. I noticed that she was wearing a purple sparkling dress long enough to reach her knees and her blonde hair was a bit curly on her shoulders while Gia was wearing the same dress but her dark hair was straightened on her shoulders.

"Vivienne can't sing" Gia added with a sigh, my heart dropped and so did my jaw. "What—what do you mean she can't?" I asked emphasizing the last word, truth be told I had never heard Vivienne sing since we have only known each other for only a few couple of hours if I stay and count.

The girls brought me inside to Vivienne's dressing room, she was sitting at the makeup desk with her palms covering her face while she sobbed.
"Vivienne?" my voice low and calm trying not to startle her, she looked up at him, her makeup ruined and eyes swollen from crying.

"Jane! Oh my god, no! You shouldn't see my like this. Our band will be messed up because of me, guys" she said looking at me then at Gia and Lucy, her voice hoarse and merely similar to a whisper. My expression softened as I watched her worry for their group, I had only met those girls for half a day and I just couldn't let them have a downfall like that.

"I can help if you'd like me to" Vivienne seemed like her heart stopped for a moment after I told her that, then she got up from her chair and ran straight into my arms hugging me tightly as tears of happiness started to fill her eyes. My heart melted as I hugged her back, even if I had just had a panic attack five minutes ago I couldn't just leave them be because that is my type of person: mother always told me I'm way too kind for this world.

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"So to recap: the song is Genie in the bottle by Dove Cameron and only Lucy and Gia will do the dancing" I told Vivienne again while she was applying the new makeup on my face that slightly fitter perfectly with the purple sparkling dress which Vivienne made me wear while she was wearing my polka dots black dress, still kept my sneakers on.

"The dress looks better on you then me" she said after clearing her throat from the hoarseness, I shook my head as a sign of not agreeing with her while giggling.

"Thanks, Jane. I mean it" Vivienne whispered again, I smiled at her before embracing her tightly, besides Emma who was and forever will be my soulmate, I believed I had found new friends on whom I can rely on and I felt content about it, even if they were from a different state.

"Guys, we will have to be up on stage in few minutes" Lucy told us from the door, I nodded as I walked out of Vivienne's dressing room.
"I'm going to be on the same stage as Jane Riordan! Lucy, help me I'm mostly likely going to faint" Gia mumbled to her blonde friend.
"She's so fine bro" Lucy muttered not really listening to what the dark-haired girl was talking about, making me chuckle as I was hearing them going on 'fan mood' again.

As we got out I noticed how the boys were talking and how my boyfriend was chatting AND looking through his phone though he doesn't really post anything. Passing by me, Gia and Lucy ran towards the boys leaving me behind, I felt like I needed to breath a bit before going on stage again.

I was staring at the big stage when suddenly I felt a hand hugging me by the waist from behind and I knew it was Walker.
"Damn, that dress looks good on you, miss" he whispered before giving me a peck on the cheek, I chuckled turning around to look up at him.

"You're singing in Viv's place, aren't you?" Walker asked already knowing the answer.
"I want to help them" I replied, Walker's eyes scanned mine for a moment before he scoffed looking away, I could notice something was bothering him.

"You sure?" he asked again with worry while rubbing my arms , I raised my eyebrows not understanding why he implied.
"I'm fine, Walker. I told you—" I began to speak but he cut me off slightly angry "No, you weren't. You were shaking Jane, and your breath was too heavy!" snapping his words right into my face, I've never seen him so worried and upset before.

"I should go... the girls must be waiting for me..." I mumbled after pulling away and ignoring his gaze, he sighed probably feeling sorry for how he talked to me but I didn't turn back to continue our conversation. I knew it was all my fault for both my behavior and his, Walker wanted to know what was wrong with me and my fear for being judge as a weird person was standing in the way of confessing to him.

(NOW YOU CAN PRESS PLAY)
The Genies, the band was called, Walker had a tiny idea of the girls forming some kind of band but he had never really put very much interest in it. In that moment, he was watching his girlfriend from the left side of the stage (lucky some curtains stopped the public from seeing him there), literally after they had gone into a small fight.
He kept thinking to himself that maybe it was his fault for asking too much, wanting to know too much, they were together for only a week and he should take it slow for now, yet Jane shouldn't act like that and keep her problems secret from him, her best friend (he knows Emma will kill him if he says that out loud), her dumb bumbler, her pookie bear, her first young love.

"Isn't she amazing?" Vivienne's sudden voice woke Walker up from his dreams of Jane, he shook his head and turned to the right of look at her.

"How are you Viv?" Walker asked with a small friendly smile, Vivienne cleared her throat again after lightly coughing.

"Wonderful can't you see? Tho I was the one who asked a question first" Vivienne added with a smirk creeping on the corner of her lips.
Walker's cheeks formed a shade of pink, gulping as he awkwardly smile at the brown haired girl.

"You two are perfect together, Walks. Your secret is safe with me" Vivienne said reassuring him of any kind of her intentions, of course she wasn't telling anybody, Vivienne was a good person, gentle and kind-hearted similar to Jane but more confident, and plus she was a very close friend to Walker since they've known each other since kindergarten and she wouldn't betray him for anything.

"Thanks" Walker muttered with a small nod, he was pleased the secret will still remain that way, yet he couldn't understand what made it so obvious about him and Jane. He was trying his hardest to keep it low profile but how could he stand still and pretend it was nothing when jeans, his jeans, his Jane was breathing in the same room as him.

"Think I'm catching a cold" Vivienne mumbled while blowing her nose after a powerful sneeze, but it was only herself to blame because she shouldn't have eaten that ice cream from yesterday so fast.

They thought nobody heard their conversation, yet down the stairs, near the stage, Kyle was calmly listening to everything the two were talking about, his grin and confidence growing when Vivienne mentioned the relationship between Walker and Jane, and Walker confirming it. Sure it wasn't fair in Kyle's eyes that Walker got everything he wanted, the friends, the career, the fame and now maybe the best girl around, for once in Kyle's life he needed to win and he will because his plan was already made...

JANE'S OUTFITS

HOW SHE LOOKS ON STAGE

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