Girl vs. Boy Band by Harmony Jones

Author:Harmony Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

ELEVEN

Lark woke up on Monday morning feeling relaxed and with just the tiniest sunburn across the bridge of her nose. Checking her reflection in the mirror, she smiled. The extra color made her green eyes “pop,” as the beauty magazines would say. She wondered if Teddy Reese would notice when they met after school to rehearse.

She hurried down to the kitchen, where she found her mother in a terrible mood.

“Now what?” asked Lark, not really wanting to know the answer. Today was going to be a great day and she didn’t want anything to mess it up. She couldn’t wait to get to school. It was the day of the school’s International Fair. There were tables set up all around the gym with parents and grandparents offering foods and displaying examples of their cultures of origin. Since most kids in LA thought of the Deep South as practically a foreign country, Lark had considered asking her mom to whip up a batch of homemade biscuits and Southern fried chicken. But Donna hadn’t fried anything since they’d arrived in California. Lark suspected this was only partly due to the new image her mother was cultivating; the other reason was that a person probably couldn’t even find chicken with the skin still on it anywhere within the city limits of Los Angeles . . . let alone a tub of Crisco!

“Some music blogger was at that club where Holly appeared on Saturday night,” Donna reported. “He wrote a great piece about Holly, but he also recognized Aidan from the footage of Holly that Mimi posted online. There’s a whole paragraph about a member of a band called Abbey Road acting obnoxious and trying to get into the club.”

Lark stuffed a water bottle into her backpack. “Oh, no.”

“‘Oh, no’ is an understatement. The boys are supposed to be behaving themselves. That’s the marketing angle I’m aiming for. Wholesome. Clean-cut. I want them to be the sort of boys a mother wouldn’t be afraid to let her daughter date.”

“They’re normal teenagers, Mom. They have personalities, not PR agendas. Aidan just made a mistake.” She was surprised to hear herself sticking up for Aidan, but Max’s story about Jade had caused her to see the group’s “bad boy” in a different light. He had feelings, just like anyone else. His broken heart didn’t excuse his actions or make him any less of a jerk for sneaking out, but she couldn’t help defending him. “Besides, what are the chances anyone’s going to read that blog anyway?”

“High, given that it includes a link to Mimi’s footage of Holly Rose. I need to do some damage limitation to improve their image. But that’ll take time. And I didn’t budget for it.”

“Well, how about you dress them in white robes and angel wings and let them hand out signed photos of themselves on the corner of Hollywood and Vine?” She knew her tone was snippy, but what difference did it make? Her mother never listened to her anyway. “Maybe

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