Present, 2021
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COLIN
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IT’S REALLY HAPPENING.
“Tonight is going to be a hell of a night,” I heard these words booming from the speakers as I let the dimmed lights surround me and I was forced to tune out the noise into silence. I pushed off the muttering voices of the crowd in front of me while I stood my ground on the stage with my electric guitar dangling across my body. There’s a heavy feeling weighing in the pit of my stomach and it’s making me feel nauseous. Some last-minute jittering nervousness has been gradually poisoning my whole body for a while now, and I tried to brush it away as I took a deep breath.
Eventually, I heard Sam muttering words beside me.
“Get a grip, Cole,” she softly told me under h
