Can't Go Back by Marie Meyer

Author:Marie Meyer [Meyer, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, New Adult, Coming of Age, Contemporary Women
ISBN: 9781455590971
Google: Uh_3rQEACAAJ
Amazon: B00X7D8KV8
Goodreads: 24820249
Publisher: Forever Yours
Published: 2015-08-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

For the next week and a half, I dodged calls from my parents and my sister—whom I was sure Mom had recruited into calling on her behalf. I couldn’t take any more talk about what a fuckup I was, and how I was ruining my life by pursuing a music career. If anything, the time I’d spent with Jillian had helped me put things in perspective. It was time I manned up and took control of my life.

I buried myself in music. I lived at the studio. When I wasn’t recording, I was in the booth with Leo, mixing. I loved the production side of things, turning raw, uncut music into something radio-playable.

I found it easy to hide from everyone when I was at the studio. It was even easy to pretend that I wasn’t in a weird place when it came to Jillian. Right now music was the only thing that made sense.

Sitting in the booth, I listened to Nee pound out the rhythm to “Home,” the song slated to be the third track on our album. She’d done a couple of other sessions, but didn’t feel like she’d nailed this piece. She was a musical perfectionist, like me.

When she finished she stood up, twirled her sticks, and slid them into her back pocket before giving me a thumbs-up and a smile.

I held up my thumbs and switched on the comm mic. “You nailed it that time.”

“Yeah, that felt good,” she said, out of breath. Stepping away from the set, she made her way to the booth. Inside she held out her fist to me.

I knocked it back and said, “That’s it for you, girl.”

She plopped into the chair beside mine and exhaled. She listened while I played back her tracks. I adjusted some settings and cleaned up the sound on the toms and the bass drum.

“Wait, wait,” she said, sitting up. “Play that back a sec.”

I backed up the track and trained an ear, trying to catch the “off” sound.

“You hear that?” Nee leaned over me and adjusted a few settings. “The sound coming from the toms isn’t right.” She shook her head, scrunching up her nose. “There, play it back again.”

I backed up the track once more. Neither of us dared to breathe as we listened to the slight adjustments Nee had made. “Bingo,” she said, clapping and sending her office chair spinning. “That’s better.” The chair came to rest and she sat back with a beatific smile.

“Feeling pretty good about yourself, huh?” I laughed.

“Fuck yeah. That song is complicated. Whoever wrote it obviously never sat behind a drum set.” She winked and gave me a sidelong glance.

I flipped her off and grinned back. “I’ll take that as a compliment…I think? And I’ll have you know Adam contributed heavily on that project.”

“I’m sure he did.” She rolled her eyes and leaned closer, nudging my arm with her shoulder. “Anyway,” she sighed. “You spending the night here, or something? All work and no play makes Griffin a dull boy,” she sang.

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