He could hear the music starting up on stage, and the roar of the crowd calling them in. Rob had been pacing around as he usually did directly before shows, getting himself in the right state of mind for his performance. He heard the drums being pounded, his cue to storm on stage and grab the mic. He stared down the crowd intensely before jumping right into the first lyrics of the song, his eyes squeezed shut as he belted into the microphone.
About halfway through the song, he opened his eyes and looked over the crowd, eyes flickering over the concert-goers at the barriers as he stalked across the stage. Then, he stopped. The music kept going around him, but he stopped singing, eyes locking onto a boy in front of him. Luckily, the crowd was singing along, and his guitarist had picked up the words to keep them going, but he just couldn’t shake the... the spark he’d felt. It was like the world had stopped and everything was just muffled noise in the background. However, suddenly he felt their bassist bump him, reminding him that he had to start singing again at some point. Swallowing down nervously, Rob shakily returned to the song, turning his back on the man and forced himself not to look in his direction. The show had to go on.
A few songs later, and Robert was quite the mess. He’d kept messing up lyrics, trailing off, and stumbling around. Eventually, he was fed up, and had to do something about this boy who kept drawing him in. At the end of their fifth song, he gave their bassist a quick explanation of what was happening and then crawled over towards the front of the stage. He grabbed the attention of a security guard and pointed the boy out, telling them to bring that person side stage. He smiled sweetly at them, and then patted the guard on the shoulder before resuming the show, beginning to talk to the crowd as he usually would at this point in the show. He made up some story about being sick and on cough medicine to explain his little mess ups.