Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake

Author:Ashley Herring Blake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Come with me outside,

you don’t have to hide,

our masks are crumbling to the ground.

Crushing smiles beneath our feet,

words curled with smoke and heat,

a million girls who can’t make a sound.

Beauty and strength,

it’s a mask, it’s a maze,

it’s a wonder we’re standing up straight.

Beauty and strength,

it’s a fight, it’s a phase,

don’t tell me I don’t know my place.

Charlie doesn’t look at me again, but I can’t take my eyes off her. The room is a lot more hushed than with the previous two performers, everyone transfixed. Her voice is husky, but also smooth like river water over rocks. The song . . . god, this song. It almost hurts, it’s so raw. So . . . Charlie. I can’t even think straight as I listen, trying to memorize the words so I can roll them over and over in my head later.

“Damn, that’s good stuff. She’s fucking amazing,” some guy next to me says. I don’t know if he’s talking to me or his friends or the universe itself, but it doesn’t matter. My smile comes easily, hearing some stranger with no loyalty to me or Charlie praising her. Really seeing her.

“Yeah. She’s magical, isn’t she?” I say.

No one answers, but I don’t need them to. I just need this. Charlie.

I spiral through the crowd, needing to get even closer to the stage, Charlie totally electric above me. The song rises, fevered as she repeats the chorus again.

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