Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills

Author:Emma Mills
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

twenty-nine

I get a text in the middle of the night a few days later.

I grope for my phone through the darkness and see the notification. It’s from Iris.

SDFJKEFLEWFDKNJ is all it says.

Iris? I reply.

The texts begin appearing in rapid succession.

NWEW SDINGEL DROPESD

NEWW SINGLEW

KENJI

KENJISS VERRSE

IM DYIGN

IM DEADD

FEJKGGKJGREKJG

AWSWOPEFWJKLFSNVFKLEW

I call her, and she picks up on the first ring.

“Are you okay? What’s happening right now?”

“New single just dropped! A new single! From the new album! It’s the best thing I’ve ever heard! You have to listen to it!”

“Okay, I—”

“Right now!” Iris says, and before I can say another word the opening chords of what can only be the brand-new TION single are playing over the phone.

It has a great hook. Catchy and upbeat but with a little edge to it. A slightly more grown-up sound, maybe, than the singles from their last album. Kenji’s verse is a thing of beauty—he hits this falsetto on I want to start a scandal, baby and then drops back down on I do, I do, just say that you do, too, ripping out a giant note on the last word leading into the chorus.

When it’s done, Iris tells me it’s called “Scandal Season” and is the first single from TION’s still as of now untitled fourth album. We listen to it again, and then talk about it more, and then listen again twice more for good measure, not counting all the times that Iris replays Kenji’s verse. By the end we’re singing along: I do, I do, just say that you do, too.

Eventually, I burrow further under the covers, the phone still pressed to my ear, sleepiness settling in again.

Iris, too, sounds quieter, silences extending between comments about the song.

“I wonder what Paige thinks,” she says eventually. “I wonder if she knows it’s out.” A beat. “Maybe you could ask her.”

“I can’t call Paige at one in the morning.”

“Obviously I don’t mean right now, geez.”

I pause. “You know, just because you broke up doesn’t mean you can never speak to her again.”

She doesn’t reply.

“You there?”

“Yeah,” she says, and then it’s quiet again.

“I’ll ask her,” I say.

“See if she thinks it’s better than ‘Without You.’”

“I will.” I shut my eyes. “I should sleep soon, I think.”

“Can we listen one more time?”

I smile. “Yeah, okay.”

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