Hard Rock Arrangement by Ava Lore

Author:Ava Lore [Lore, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Brittle Divinity Press
Published: 2013-07-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The next week things changed significantly in the Casa de Hudson. Carter spent all his waking hours working on the next album, and Kent actually spent time at home. Sometimes they shut themselves up in Carter's bedroom, talking, plucking out notes on their instruments, jamming. I elected not to bother them, since I thought it was good that they were spending time together, even if it was just because they were both stressed to the eyeballs about churning out another hit album. I liked what I heard, anyway, and I was utterly dying to hear the lyrics to the haunting music filtering through the house. Carter, however, refused to even give me a hint. He just smiled enigmatically at me whenever I asked.

For four straight days, they didn't leave the house. Rehearsal was canceled. We ate take out that I picked up from down the street. I love Chinese food, but after the fourth straight day of cashew chicken I was starting to get a little sick of it and actually missed Carter's antics. At least his antics involved getting out of the house.

I spent the days idly cleaning the house, reading the books scattered around, and learning how to play football on the Playstation.

On the fifth day I woke up and found the house quiet.

It was a weird feeling. I hadn't been alone in a house for years. There had always been someone there, usually the rightful owner of the house. Actually, now that I thought about it, I was willing to bet that most of the people whose couches we were surfing on liked to stay home when I was home just to make sure I didn't steal their shit.

Fuck.

So being left alone in Carter and Kent's house was refreshing. And, strangely, I didn't mind.

I wandered from room to room until I came to the kitchen, where a note was hung on the refrigerator.

In the recording studio. Take a day off. —K.

I had to smile at that. I'd been having a day off for the past four days. With Carter confined to the house as he celebrated his own genius, I was essentially home free. He hadn't even drunk one of those Pabsts, by the way. I'd had them all. It was a true gentleman who got a lady drunk, let her fall asleep in his bed, and did nothing about it.

But now I had a car, money, and a day off.

I had no idea what to do.

When was the last time I'd had a day off? I couldn't even remember. I'd worked myself like a dog to keep Jason afloat. I was such an idiot. And now I'd landed here, somehow. I sure as hell didn't deserve it, but I was going to make the most of it anyway. I was grateful as fuck.

I took a long, leisurely shower, got dressed in a sundress, and left the house.

I drank coffee. I went to the library. I wandered down the boulevards. I looked at shoes in shop windows that I swear I might have been able to afford if I saved my money for a year or so.

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