Childish Dreams by Verdant Malorie

Author:Verdant, Malorie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: novel
Publisher: Malorie Verdant
Published: 2020-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

I grabbed my guitar and car keys from my bedroom and was making my way toward the stairs when I heard my front door unlocking. There was only one other person who had keys to my house, and hearing them in the door had me pausing in the hallway and shaking my head. I forgot I had organized this, too distracted by staring at those damn photos each night.

Maybe I should hide.

“Jax!” my mother screeched from the entrance of my house. I heard the bags hit the floor and didn’t need to see them to know they would be covering the entire entryway. She never traveled light. Only in the city for a few days to watch the taping of our next show and celebrate her birthday, yet she would have brought enough to live here for a few months.

I stared at her from the top of my staircase, wondering how I was going to manage her coming to the rehearsal and seeing Billie and me perform. And there would be no way I could convince her to stay here until I returned. Bambi Bone waited for no one.

She was a boisterous woman. Big hair, sequined tops, tight leather pants, and red lipstick. She was a total diva, even at fifty-five. An old-school LA groupie who refused to age gracefully, like she refused everything else expected of a woman her age. The widow of a starving musician, the mother to an overnight teenage success, she lived life unapologetically. If I asked her to tone it down for a red-carpet event or award ceremony, she would just give me a glare and, in the closest thing she had to a mother-like tone, lecture me that “Life is too short to not be yourself.”

I walked down the stairs and straight into her arms. I was trained to not linger in a room without hugging her or else I’d be subjected to hours of outspoken chastising. Even if it meant my body reeked of her perfume for hours afterward.

“Hey, Mom, we should have rescheduled. I’m on my way to the set to rehearse right now,” I told her when she finally finished hugging me. I hoped if I left fast enough, I might have a small chance of leaving alone.

“I know. Donny let me know I could go with you,” she gushed. “He told me you’re singing duets with three of the contestants. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you sing a duet in person. I can’t wait.” The glint in her eyes revealed her hidden agenda.

“Of course he did.” After you hounding him because you had seen the photos circulating and wanted your own close-up look at the girl.

The woman devoured gossip magazines like a dehydrated person drinking bottled water.

“The television people even sent me the paperwork so they can record me there. Isn’t that exciting?”

I sighed. I knew what Donny wanted—video footage of Billie meeting my mother. Good or bad, he knew it would make good television.

“I don’t suppose I could

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