Hard As Rock by Olivia Thorne

Author:Olivia Thorne [Thorne, Olivia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781940989082
Publisher: Perihelion Publishing
Published: 2014-11-19T07:00:00+00:00

59

One evening during dinner, Ryan surprised me.

“Could I ask you a favor?”

I looked up from my dessert. “What?”

“Would you mind if I read what you’re writing?”

Part of me was flattered; Ryan was the first guy I’d ever dated who’d ever shown interest. Derek had never asked. Neither had my second college boyfriend. And with Kevin, it had been a quid pro quo kind of thing where we swapped out pieces to get feedback.

But part of me panicked, thinking, He only wants to read what I’ve written about Derek!

Only thing was, I hadn’t written anything about Derek.

Yet.

“Why do you want to read my stuff?” I asked.

“If you want to get to know me, you can’t really do it without listening to the music I create. It’s a huge part of me. You’ve already listened to everything I’ve done, so you know me pretty well. I want to get to know you better, so I figure the best way to do that is through your writing.”

“I’ve only finished a few pages,” I protested lamely.

“I don’t care.”

“It’s not very good.”

“I’m sure it’s a lot better than you’re giving yourself credit for.”

“I’m… it’s not…”

“If you don’t want me to read it, that’s cool, too,” he said gently.

“No, I just… no, it’s fine.”

“Okay.” He smiled at me expectantly.

“What, now?!”

He shrugged. “Why not?”

After a second, I sighed in acceptance. “Okay, let me go get my laptop.”

He spent a good ten minutes reading what I’d written, then raised his head. “It’s really good.”

“Really?” I asked hopefully.

“Yeah. You have a real flair for making the band members’ personalities come alive on paper. Plus I can tell you’ve really improved.”

I frowned. “What do you mean?”

Suddenly he looked sheepish.

“Uh… well… when I found out you were coming, I Googled you and read everything you’d written that I could find on the web.” He winced. “Is that creepy?”

It wasn’t creepy it all.

It just floored me that he’d cared enough to do that.

I laughed, stunned. “No… I… I’m flattered…” Then my insecurities kicked in. “How have I improved?”

“Well, you were always good, even in your simplest stuff, but let’s just say… you didn’t quite have the right subject matter to really shine.”

“Yeah. Interviews with city councilmen and reviews of craft fairs don’t give you the best opportunity to blow people out of the water.”

“Well… now you have the subject matter, an exclusive scoop on a topic tens of millions of people want to read about. So from here on out, it’s all up to you.”

That last statement scared the hell out of me. I looked down at my dinner plate.

“Did I say something wrong?” he asked, puzzled.

“No, I just…” I looked back up at him. “I’m scared.”

“Why?”

“Because…” I said, then trailed off into silence.

Again, he displayed that uncanny knack of just getting me. “Because you suffered a huge emotional trauma and don’t want to relive it yet? Kaitlyn, you went through the equivalent of a 10-car pile-up. Fires and ambulances and the whole deal. It’s absolutely normal that you don’t want to return to the scene of the accident yet.

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