Cold Hard Cash by Frankie Love

Author:Frankie Love [Love, Frankie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Frankie Love
Published: 2018-04-09T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Cassius

Fourteen straight days in the studio.

I don’t want to think. I don’t want to do anything besides sink my teeth into the lyrics—even the ones I hate—because that’s better than giving into my thoughts. They are all bitter. Cold. Hard.

Gentle Evangeline isn’t so gentle after all.

That girl played me.

And I’m still mind fucked over what went down in her driveway.

Now, the album is done. Getting remastered. And I’m going on tour with Elle Camino tomorrow.

I’m fucking ready to get out of LA, to disappear on stage night after night.

Elle and I are in the studio together; we just listened to my entire album. It was a dream come true to have this girl from my hometown, who has come farther than anyone I know, sit beside me. She has legit chops, and I want to hear her opinion.

But it was also torture. I see every one of my flaws, and I know she’ll see them too.

“Sweetheart, that was off the charts!” Elle Camino gives me a fist bump, her braided hair swinging as she jumps around the studio. Her overalls, mesh tank, and Reeboks are a throwback, but this girl is so current. I want to learn to ride her creative wave in the music I create.

“I think track eight is the weakest,” I admit, needing to say something. What I want to do is scream that this album is not what I envisioned, and I am not what I envisioned, and at this point I don’t even care how it sounds.

“You’re looking at it all wrong,” Elle says, plopping down on a stool and shaking her head.

I raise an eyebrow, not believing a word she says.

“I mean it, Cash. Track eight was one of my favorites on the entire album. It’s all so subjective. As an artist, you never know which thing is going to take off, which song will be your hit. That’s why you gotta try, take a risk, listen to the advice from KMG. They know what they’re doing. They’ve been doing it a lot longer than either of us.”

“Your latest album, you were sold on every track you laid?”

She snorts, picking up her iced latte. Her hundred bangle bracelets jangle as she moves. “Not even close. But I infused my heart and soul in it, just like you did, and that’s enough. We can’t have it every way; we can’t be given complete creative license by the label. Hell, if they gave that to me, I think my entire record would be me screaming about the girl who broke my heart. No one wants to listen to that shit.”

I laugh. Elle is straight up.

“I can’t imagine anyone breaking your heart,” I tell her.

“Yeah, well, now I have a new girlfriend, Sasha. She’ll be on tour with us, and she’s amazing, but—”

“But what?”

“But going on tour is hard enough. And I don’t want the stress of all of this to fuck up what she and I have.”

I nod.

“You have someone?” Elle asks. We’ve met a

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