Hi, I'm Jesse and I'm the lead singer in a rock band. I can't say my life is not great because I'm living my dream. But not everything is great when you're famous, and I guess that I should have thought about it in the beginning. Most of what happens in my life is awesome: I have to travel a lot, so I discover new places, I spend a lot of time with the band that are also my best friends. And, incredibly, I'm making money doing my favorite thing, singing.

But when it is about my very personal life, things change. And for personal life I mean my romantic relationship with my girlfriend Anna. She is great, sometimes I even think that I don't deserve her. Sadly, as I said before I have to travel a lot and spend a lot of time with the band. So, recently, our relationship has been affected by that, because I don't have enough time to be with her, and sometimes I'm not even in the same state that she is.

In the beginning, we used to argue about that, but with just three words everything was good again. "I love you" I used to say, and she replied "me too" Then we hugged and stayed like that as long as necessary. But as time passed by, our argues started to go worse and every time more often. So the usual "I love you" started to be not enough to keep our flame alive.

I was with the band, in another state playing our music and becoming more knowing and famous. In the past, when we weren't famous, I used to call Anna before every show she couldn't attend. She motivated me to do it great, to accomplish my dreams. But now it is different, I don't want to call her because I miss her too much, and sometimes I don't even want to play because I feel that I am out of luck far away from where she is. 

Besides our distance and time problems, we also had a problem related to what people said. Now that more people know me, or know who I am, I have been surrounded by comments, stories, and that sort of things. For example, the other day, I was waiting for the guys outside a coffee shop, and suddenly a girl started to talk to me and I was like "who are you?" and she just said that she was a great fan and asked me if she could take a photo of me hugging her, to what I agree without a doubt. But what I didn't know was what she was going to do after that. Finally, the guys got out of the coffee shop and we went to the hotel. That day we didn't have much free time, because we had to play at the night. So we just changed our clothes, ate something and then went to the venue. As I was in a hurry, I didn't notice that I forgot my cell phone in the hotel room.

After having prepared everything for the concert, we went to the backstage to wait for our turn, and we had some water and some snacks. That was when Will (the guitarist) showed me a picture on Instagram. At first, I didn't notice anything strange, it was the coffee shop girl's picture. So I couldn't understand what was going on, then I read the hashtag: #jessenewgirlfriend. I couldn't understand why that girl did that, but my mind immediately thought of Anna. What if she had seen the picture with THAT hashtag? What would she think of? I knew that it wasn't the truth, but how could she know it too? At that moment, I started to look for my cell phone to call Anna, but I couldn't find it anywhere. And, it was show time, we had to go to the stage immediately, but I couldn't let Anna think the worst, so I asked Justin for his phone to message Anna, telling her that it wasn't true, that she didn't have to believe everything she reads or sees about me, that I would call her later and, most important; that I still loved her and wanted her to be my girlfriend. I texted that and went to the stage.

When the concert finished, I just wanted to go to the hotel and call Anna. Fortunately, the show wasn't affected by my mind's distraction and it was perfect. But what happened with Anna was totally the opposite. When we arrived at the hotel, I ran into my room and looked for my phone. When I found it, I saw that Anna had called me several times, and she texted me: "WHAT'S GOING ON?" I didn't know what to do, so I just called her. At first, she didn't answer, but after some attempts she did it. I could notice in her voice that she had been crying and that she was mad at me. So I immediately started to explain what really happened. Obviously, she wasn't sure about trusting me or not, but at least I tried. 

 That was the moment when I realized that I was losing her for living my dream, and I decided to make a change. I knew that three words wouldn't fix us anymore, and distance and rumors were making our relationship go to an end. In my mind, I couldn't help thinking that everything was my fault, but I also knew that I could make things go better.

By that time, the band wouldn't have any shows for a week, so I decided to go home immediately. I remembered that she worked from nine to five and her break was at one o'clock. So, I did everything to be there before one. When the clock marked one, I was outside her office waiting for her. Then she went out and when I saw her I just ran to her. She was confused and asked me "What are you doing here?" and I replied "fixing us, I love you and I would never let you go" She hugged me and we stayed like that for a while.

After a while, she asked me what my plan was, how I would fix our relationship without giving up my dream. I have to recognize that I wasn't sure about what to say. I spent the whole way there thinking about that, but I didn't have an answer yet. The band had scheduled three more months of the tour, starting next week, so I couldn't just quit it, and the other solution was a bit crazy too. But as I had nothing more, I just said it. "What about... you going on the tour with me and the band? That way we wouldn't have to be apart anymore..." She didn't expect that, but her answer surprised me, she said "Well... I will have to quit my job then" And from that moment on, our relationship started to get better and we started to use the three words as a lucky phrase before every concert. Whenever I make my way to the stage, she would always say: "I love you".