Face the Music by Marianne Levy

Author:Marianne Levy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK

Oh, yes. That. The Karamel concert. It might be nice to bring a bit of moral support. Even if the support thought that I was without morals.

I glanced over to Lace and opened my mouth. Only, Jaz spoke first.

‘So, when’s it out?’

‘The single? It’s out now.’

‘I might get it later,’ said Jaz.

Now, Jaz isn’t one of the world’s greatest shoppers. By which I mean, she’s great at choosing stuff, but she seems to have a bit of a block on the paying part of the process. So the idea of her parting with proper cash was really quite exciting.

‘If you buy it on CD then I’ll sign it,’ I said. ‘Vox Vinyl’s got loads. What about you, Lace?’

‘Join the dark side,’ said Jaz.

‘So,’ said Lacey, in what was the most obvious change of subject in the whole history of changing subjects. ‘Are you going to ask Dominic Preston out, then?’

‘Why would I do that?’

‘Because of being in love with him.’

‘I am not in love with him,’ I said, making our private motion for shutting up at her, because my love life (or lack of it) wasn’t something I much fancied getting into around the madness that was Jaz.

‘You said you really liked him,’ said Lacey. ‘And he seems to like you, and the disco is next week. So, ask him out!’

‘Only if you ask someone out too.’

‘Like who?’

‘Um . . . Devi Lester?’ I suggested.

‘Katie, I don’t have to go out with someone just because you are. We are different people.’

‘But I’m not going out with anyone,’ I said, trying to picture asking Dominic Preston out, and finding it very, very easy to imagine him saying a big fat no. ‘I’m . . . I’m too busy with my music right now. You know. Writing my album. Also, it’s not like I need a man to give my life meaning.’ It occurred to me that it would be good if Lace had a boyfriend; if nothing else it would take the heat off me. ‘But you should totally get together with Devi.’

‘So I should go out with someone because my life is so very empty and meaningless,’ said Lacey. ‘Thanks, Katie.’

Which was not what I meant at all, and she knew it. And I knew she knew it. And she knew that I knew she knew it.

‘I’d better go,’ I said. ‘Need to get my stuff sorted out so I can make a quick getaway after school.’

‘Why?’

‘Because,’ I said, as pointedly as I could, ‘I’ve got to go all the way to the O2 for a Karamel concert, just to do a stupid annoying interview. Total waste of an evening. Laters.’

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