Almost as if his feet had frozen Aidan couldn´t move in any direction. Mylene walking a little unsteady towards him, when she is about ten steps away from him it seems she trips and starts falling. Without thinking Aidan takes those steps forward and catches her before she hits the ground, when he looks at her face it looks like she has fainted. Placing his arms around her as he lifts her up he looks in the direction of the manager
“Hey, where can I let her rest? She seems to have fainted”
“We have a quiet room behind the stage, I´ll show you where it is”

Following the manager Aidan carries Mylene into a room behind the stage. When the manager opens the door Aidan can see a bed right in front of him. Placing Mylene on the bed he turns around
“Thanks, this is great. She can relax here”

The manager walks out of the room and as Aidan rises and is about to start walking he can feel something grabbing his hand
“Aidan, please stay a bit longer. I don´t want to be left alone”
“Ok Mylene. I will.”

Fetching a chair Aidan sits down beside the bed. He grabs hold of Mylene´s hand and just sits there. After some time he asks her
“Why did you trip? I didn´t see anything lying on the stage you could have triped on”
“I don´t know myself, all of a sudden I was falling. That´s all I remember. But somehow I knew you would catch me Aidan”
“I guess you´ve been drinking some before the performance?”
“Yeah, some atleast, it was free for us so I might have overdone it”
“Then I think we have a winner for why you almost fell down, you´re drunk, now I also understand why you did that stunt out there on the stage. I don´t think you would do this if you were sober”
“So, you don´t believe in love at first sight?”
“Don´t know, as I am now I can´t feel love so I really can´t say”

“Mylene!!” a voice comes from behind Aidan and he is suddenly pushed away from the bed where Mylene is resting.
“How are you?”
“I´m fine Max, I just tripped, that´s all”
“That´s good, the audience wants to hear the final song since they don´t think it was over just yetm are you able to play?”
“Yeah, let´s go”

Unsteadily standing up with Kain supporting her Mylene walks trough the door past Aidan. Aidan on the other hand is more worried about Mylene than the show. But he goes back to his seat anyway, when he sits down he can feel a pain striking his left shoulder with renewed force, even though he had a broken collarbone he carried Mylene as if it was nothing and now he is getting his rewards. “Damn, this hurts like hell. But better this than Mylene being hurt from the fall”

Once again standing on stage Mylene walks towards the microphone
“Well, what a mistake I made there. Sorry to worry everyone. But here we are atlast, the final song for tonight, which I dedicate to Aidan for helping me out once again: Human Touch”

“Can I find the words to tell you?
How I live between the walls of steel and stone
How I close my eyes to find some kind of rapture
In a world where you can feel so all alone

When you find love in your heart
Nothing can tear it apart
Not man of steel
Nothing is real except for love
If you believe in
Human Touch”

The last tones are echoing away, something strikes Aidan in his heart, as if Mylene was shining like an angel standing before him. Words are coming out into his mind, ”A song? But I’ve never heard this one before? Is it even a song?”

After the song finished everyone gives Mylene and her band standing ovations and then they head for the hot springs. Aidan who has already been to the hot springs once goes back to the massage parlour for another round, but this time he asks them to only work with his muscles around his hurt shoulder, this is done pretty quick so he also goes into the hot springs.
“Yo captain, what took you so long?” Steve asks when Aidan appears with just a towel around his waist”
“I had to take another round at the massage parlour to fix my shoulder, or atleast try to fix it. I´m hurt you know”
“Didn´t seem like that when you liften Mylene up, hell you were even faster than I would have been. To bad you didn´t get your reward tough”
“Let´s not talk about that anymore, and besides, she dedicated the last song to me, we´re even”
“I wouldn´t be to sure about that if I were you captain, she seems to have a strong mind”
“Let´s just enjoy the hot springs ok?”

After relaxing for about an hour the whole team gets up, dries themselves and changes back into their ordinary clothes and heads for the exit. When they have gotten about ten feet away from the hotel a voice can be heard
“Aidan, wait just a darn minute”
Turning around Aidan can see Mylene running towards him. Waiting for her to catch up, when does catch up she throws herself into Aidans arms, holding him steady around his neck with her arms
“You didn´t get your reward earlier, so here it is”

Before Aidan can say anything to Mylene she has her lips over his, Aidan can feel himself blushing red like a tomato, but Mylene doesn´t seem to stop.
After what feels like an eternity she finally removes her lips from his. Having a little blush she shows him her brilliant smile
“There, all finished. See you around Aidan”

Unable to say anything Aidan just stands there, Mylene raises her hand up and winks at him and then turns around and goes back into the hotel.

End chapter 8