Famous People by Justin Kuritzkes

Author:Justin Kuritzkes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.

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We actually did end up getting together again once, but it wasn’t after my dad died. It was a few months later, when that terrorist attack happened in Berlin.

I’m sure pretty much everyone reading this already knows about it, but just in case someone’s picking this book up sometime way in the future—like, if you found this in a used bookstore or something on Mars—there was a big terrorist attack at one of Mandy’s concerts two years ago, and a lot of people died.

Mandy was fine, but immediately when I heard about it on the news, my heart just sank, and I was like: I’ve gotta go get her. I just got this feeling like: Mandy’s in trouble—I’ve got to go be with her. And so before I even texted Mandy to see if she was okay—they reported it on the news that she wasn’t hurt, so I knew that like, at the very least, she was alive—I made a call to my pilot, and I was just like: How soon do you think we could take off and get to Berlin? And he started making all the arrangements.

I was in London at the time for the opening of this musical my boy Bryan Rogers did, so it didn’t take long at all to get there. I called Mandy from the plane, and she was really shaken up—I mean, I’d never heard her like that before—and I was just like: Yo, hang tight, I’m coming to get you. And immediately when we landed, I just booked it right for her hotel.

Her people had sort of rushed her away from the scene and gotten her in a car away from the venue as quickly as they could—they weren’t sure whether more shit was about to go down, you know, or if like, the whole thing was about to explode, so they were just like, in full war zone mode, putting all their training to use. Thank God Mandy had such a good security team, because as soon as they realized that shots were happening, her team basically rushed onto the stage and tackled her. Mandy didn’t even really know what was happening, you know, because the music was so loud, and she was in the middle of singing “Ray of Sunshine,” so she was just about to hit that high note at the end of the bridge when her security people jumped onstage and rushed her off to the side. One of her guys even got hit in the process. He didn’t realize it until they had already gotten her off into the backstage area and somebody was like, “Mandy, there’s blood all over you!” and everyone was in a real panic for a second until they realized that it was actually Terry who was bleeding from his arm. He hadn’t even looked, and then, like, he saw it and he fainted and they rushed him to the hospital. He ended up being fine.

Anyway, when I got there, Mandy

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