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Author: Jasmine
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The D-day had finally arrived and I felt so nervous I could puke my guts out. Lily was somewhere backstage waiting for Hannah. I lost her when a crew of people had carted me off to make sure I was miked up and ready.

I paced backstage wringing my hands together. “Candy?” A stage hand offerred, extending a bowl to me. “For your breath.” I grabbed one.

“I think I’m just gonna find my sister, is she still backstage, or has she joined the others?”

The others being, Jace, Bianca and Jeremy. Jace had gotten all of them tickets, how he did it? I didn’t have time to ask.

“I think she’s still here. I could go on find her for you if you’d like.”

I shook my head frantically. “I need to move around a bit, anyway, thank you.”

“Alright. Just take deep breaths alright?”

Why did this show have to be live? And where the hell was Hannah. I walked around, getting stopped very few times by Destan’s backstage crew. A particular burly man who I heard being called Jelly or JB, lingered around me, I knew
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