Sumario

42. ON THE STAGE

When Nina's fans saw her appear on stage in the same wardrobe as in the promotion poster, they welcomed her with loud applause, and the entertainer finished the presentation.

“Dear friends, with you ... Nina and ... Nano, protagonists of a beautiful love story, which ends today on this stage!”

Nina was the first to address her enthusiastic fans.

“Hello, hello everybody, I'm already here! I have an excellent reason for this delay: Nano! Without him, I would not have been able to sing here tonight, because what I am going to sing are our songs ...”

“That is not completely true, Nina,” Nano interrupted, “they are your songs ...”

“But you inspired them,” he interrupted again.

“No, Nina, it wasn't me, it was the illusion and the innocence of two teenage musicians ...”

“Nano, you're a philosopher!”

“And you are an artist, and when philosophy meets art, beauty arises.”

Nano's reflection was greeted with new applause. When the ovation still resounded.

Nina and Nano started the concert with the songs from Nina's album, which were received with great enthusiasm, until it decisive moments of our lives, that's why w was time for the most expected song of the concert. Nano proposed a special interpretation.

“This song is to Nina and to be the one that would mark our fates, each one of its three stanzas has been the three we will sing them as they happened. Nina will sing the first stanza, and I will accompany her as she sang it the first time, five years ago, in a small piano-bar in a beautiful coastal town; she will sing the second stanza by Nina alone, our separation, and the third and last one, we will all sing it because it is that of our joyful reunion...”

Nano started the first stanza with his arrangements for two guitars changing a nostalgic look with Nina, who replied with an emotional smile. Hearing those popular arpeggios, the audience gave him warm applause. Nina felt transported to the piano bar's small stage, where she sang it for the first time. She was immensely happy with how fate had done her strange job and sang transmitting the same happiness to the audience:


«I have dreamed that your arms embraced me, as a storm embraces a boat.

That your lips kissed me, as the full moon kisses the sea.

That your smile captivated me, as it captivates the northern lights.


Your eyes are the color of the sea,
your caresses like the waves that come and go. »

She sang the following verse a cappella, without guitars, which produced an emotional sensation of solitude.

“I have dreamed that you were sinking in the sea, and you made me cry.
That you had vanished, as evaporates the water of the sea.
That we were two strangers, like the mountains and the sea.
That I only had this song, where before I had a heart.

Your eyes are the color of the sea,
your caresses like the waves that come and go."

The audience reacted by lighting lighters and singing the refrain along with Nina. At the end of a loud drum roll, the audience was overwhelmed, followed by incorporating the guitars, keyboards, and the choir of jazz singers, in an apotheosis of sound to repeat the chorus several times until a euphoric Nina sang the last verse:

“I have dreamed that the sea was returning to you, and you made me remember.
that yesterday we loved each other, as the sea loves the rain,
that we met today, so as not to separate ourselves again.
That I had a heart again, where before I only had a song.

Your eyes are the color of the sea,
your caresses like the waves that come and go.

Your eyes are the color of the sea,
Your caresses like the waves that come and go."

They had to make several encores because the audience did not stop applauding, asking for a new encore. Finally, Nina said goodbye to the public, with news that surprised everyone:

“Dear friends, I was not born to be acclaimed, nor am I attracted by fame or popularity. I was born to be like many of you are simple people who lead a simple life. I only wish I had a place to call home, where I am surrounded by everything I like and is dear to me, and, if it could be, with two or three scandalous little devils to take care of and ensure the right to happiness. So this will be the first and last of my concerts .” an intense rumor of complaint spread throughout the stadium. “Yes, friends, I'm retiring from the stage… ”

“Then,” Nano interrupted, “perhaps you will accept this engagement ring. I bought it at the airport, and I don't know if it will suit you. I had relied on the memory of when, hand in hand, we walked along the beach, in silence, each one delivered with our own dreams of adolescents.”

Nina reacted, surprising her audience once again with an unexpected response:

“Of course, I do! But what do you think,” she asked the audience, “should I accept?”

A clamorous “yes” echoed throughout the stadium.

“Then, I have no choice but to accept that ring!”

Nano hugged an excited Nina and confirmed her wishes:

“Yes, my dear friends, this is the end of a wonderful story of friendship between two teenage musicians and the beginning of a love story of two young musicians. A huge kiss for all of you, and thanks for being here... But don't be sad, because we leave you a magnificent substitute: Lali Boon!” Nano said, also hugging the excited Lali. Then the three of them, holding hands, left the stage with a standing ovation that seemed endless.



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