Just One Week (Just One Song) by Lynn Stacey

Author:Lynn, Stacey [Lynn, Stacey]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Contemporary
Published: 2013-10-21T21:00:00+00:00

The reception has been absolutely incredible. There are only about thirty people, milling around and dancing to the live band. It’s a band called “Flayed Alive” and they’re also the opening band for their upcoming tour. Zack is convinced they’re the ‘next big thing.’ I think it’s funny watching them play for Zack Walters.

For a moment I have to fight my own sadness and jealousy when I watch them. I don’t even know them, but the excitement in their eyes says everything. They all look a little bit star struck and you can tell that their most unfathomable dreams are coming true right before their eyes.

Mine, however, are slipping through my fingers with every breath I take and as I watch everything going on around me, I can’t help but wonder if I’ll ever feel that sense of excitement and accomplishment again.

Zack and Nicole haven’t been more than six inches apart for the entire night except for the dances where Zack danced with his mom, sister, and new mother-in-law. Nicole used the time to dance with all the band members. It almost made me wish my brother, Elijah, was here. He is as much of a brother to Nicole as he is to me, but he’s finishing up prosecuting a case in Minneapolis and couldn’t make it.

Garrett and Chloe are just as inseparable as Nic and Zack, and even Sammy and Jake have danced a few times. Apparently they’re working out whatever issues they’ve had, even though Sammy looks much more guarded than normal. I can’t say I blame her.

There’s so much love in the air and it’s choking me. I drain my glass of champagne and quietly make my way inside, saying hello and excuse me, as I weave through the small crowd and wait staff that is walking around with champagne.

Once inside, I quickly make my way to my private bathroom and sit down on the toilet, my head dropping into the palm of my hands.

What is wrong with me? I have no idea what’s going on in my head as my blood races through my veins. It was only a week ago where I felt like I had everything I needed, but being here around Nicole and spending more time with Chase has me questioning everything.

My mind is flooded with reminders of Chase over the last week and our date to the Riverwalk in Napa. And yet, as much as I keep trying to see a happily ever after with him, my mind always returns to my father, passed out on a living room couch with an empty glass next to him. Or visions of my mother, bone thin in the hospital bed in her master bedroom, with silent tears falling down her cheeks as she realized she was going to die and leave her children with a man who had disappeared so far into himself there was no help for his own healing.

I see Nicole, when for months after Mark’s death she wore his old t-shirts

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