Crazy on You by Crystal B. Bright

Author:Crystal B. Bright
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2018-09-11T15:08:19+00:00

Chapter 12

For all his bravado, Hyde didn’t realize how hard it would be to write songs. Strange. He remembered being a kid and banging out a song every hour it seemed like. Then again, he had been inspired. Working alongside Tassia so many years ago provided him some great inspiration for several songs. To prove her wrong, he had almost wanted to break out those old songs to show her he could bring something to this arrangement.

Despite Tassia’s songs not having any duet parts for him, Hyde had been impressed by the fact that in a day, she had written three songs. He suspected that her songs would classify as “club bangers,” as she had once described them. He couldn’t say Tassia didn’t prove herself. She did. He had fallen on the job.

Hyde walked by Tassia’s closed bedroom door to head to the backyard. Maybe if he sat by the pool like she had he could write. The last couple of days had him curious as to what occupied her time. Maybe she plotted on how to kill him. He would deserve it if he hadn’t apologized. How long could she not talk to him?

Instead of thinking about that, Hyde needed to do what he had come here for. Or at least what he told Tassia he had come here for—he needed to get to work.

Hyde sat on the edge of the pool with his feet and lower legs in the water while he held a pad and pen in his hands. He pressed the pen on the paper and—nothing.

“Damn.” Hyde shook his head. “Come on, man. You’ve done this before. You aren’t that far removed from the process.”

Hyde closed his eyes and did what he told Tassia he’d done when he had written songs in the past. He thought about the melody. In his head, the melody matched Tassia. It sounded full bodied and smooth with a hard-hitting beat. What he heard in his head seduced him…just like Tassia had.

He glanced back at the house halfway hoping she would be looking at him. What the hell was wrong with him? Why couldn’t he open up more? Tassia didn’t deserve his suspicion. She didn’t need to get him at less than his best. For that reason, whenever he made food, he would leave a plate out for Tassia. Before coming out to the pool, he had made a salad and a bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sandwich.

Hyde refused to leave his spot until he wrote a completed song. Sitting on the concrete around the pool caused his butt to tingle as it went to sleep, and the backs of his legs started to sting. Even the cool water he had his lower legs submerged in didn’t soothe him.

“Get it together. Think.” Instead of squeezing his eyes shut and not looking at the blank page staring back at him, he confronted his nemesis head on.

This time he put the pen to paper and started writing, slowly at first. He struggled with the words until he thought about Tassia, what he put her through, and his crush.

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