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He grinned as Bella approached. Some of the girls in the group raised their eyebrows at his reaction to her. He laughed at her comment. "Thanks! I forgot how good it feels to be on stage in front of an actual crowd," he remarked. "Dude, you would have thought you did it every night by the way you performed up there," one of the guys remarked. "How long's it been since you played live?"

Jamie had to think about that, glancing at Bella. "God, a few months. The summer was ridiculously quiet when it came to gigs," he said. "Well, fuck me. I thought you were going to say a week or something," the same guy replied. "Anyway, we'll leave you guys alone now. But well done!"

Jamie thanked the group, before turning back to Bella. He noticed the lack of people with her and raised an eyebrow. "Where's Nate and Ellie?" He asked. "And what happened in there? Everything seemed to be happening pretty fast, I barely had time to make sense of one thing before something else happened. Ellie looked mad as hell, anyway, that much I do know," he remarked. Then again, he'd heard that it didn't take much to set her off. At least some of the rumours about her had to be true- he just didn't know which.

It didn't take Ellie long to find the merch table. She didn't even as much as look around for Nate. If he was around, so be it- if not, she didn't care. She worked her way up to the table itself, catching the attention of one of them. Not the singer, but he was just as, if not better looking, so she didn't particularly care. She had a feeling he was the guitarist.

"Hey, you were awesome up there!" She said as she got up to him. He grinned, ruffling his hair a little. "Thanks! Yeah, we felt like it was a good show. There was a great atmosphere off of the crowd, which definitely helps," he said. She nodded, starting to play with her hair. "Well, it's easy to give off good vibes when a bunch of talented people are playing great music," she said, grinning at him. He laughed a little in response. "I'm Ellie," she said, holding out a hand. He took it. "Alex," he replied.

"So, are you going to buy anything? We've still got to earn our gas money to the next gig," he joked. She nodded, looking over the table. "What are your favourite things?" She asked. "Well, of course I've got to offer you our CD. And I actually helped design this sweatshirt!" He said, holding up the sweatshirt. It was definitely her favourite thing of everything she saw, and she grinned. "Oh, wow! You're so talented," she said, forgetting to be flirtatious. But that seemed to work better, and he beamed at her. "Thanks. And can I give you my number as well?" He asked, blurting it out. Ellie nodded in response, holding out her phone.