Keep Me Close by Elizabeth Cole

Author:Elizabeth Cole [Cole, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SkySpark Books
Published: 2017-10-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Vinny had retreated to the library to get her act together. She had to figure out how she was going to get through to Emma, and short of learning how to be a hacker to get Jonas’s digital info, she didn’t have any ideas.

She saw a bunch of old zines on a shelf and started paging through them. They all dated back to the years in New York City, when Vinny first got into the scene as a teenager, and met Jonas and later Emma. Even then, Emma was a writer, and she contributed to a lot of the magazines. She wrote accounts of shows, profiles of her friends’ bands, and album reviews. The writing was raw, but Emma had a voice. Vinny could practically hear the younger Emma narrating the words as she read them. Vin smiled at all the photos, deliberately grainy to echo the look of original, photocopied zines. There was Jonas, in his pre-Mercury Thief days, just another kid with a microphone. Emma, during her brief stint as a very bad guitarist—she had been happy to move into freelance writing. She called it a grown-up move.

At the time, Vinny had been a little hurt by the comment. After all, she was still playing, and would play in one band or another for the next decade. But now, Vin wondered if Emma hadn’t been referring to Jonas. There was no reason to think he’d make it big. He wasn’t more talented or more hardworking than anyone else in the scene. But then he left his old band, started Mercury Thief, and overnight, he’d made it.

Leafing through a later, glossier magazine, Vinny stopped at a page with a photo of her and Jonas at a piano, a photo she didn’t remember seeing before. The caption read: Jonas Belling shows a fan how to play.

“You fucking kidding me?” Vinny hissed. She was no fangirl, and she was approximately a thousand times better than Jonas when it came to playing piano. She checked the date on the magazine. Yep, Mercury Thief had just released their first album, to wild, voracious approval.

Just my luck, she thought. All those years of practice. All the times she had to turn down the chance of friendship or a fun time so she could perform or prepare a new piece. And it turned into Jonas Belling shows a fan how to play.

Vinny frowned when she caught a flicker of something out of the corner of her eye. It was like someone was sneaking up behind her, but when she turned, no one was there.

“Turning paranoid,” she muttered. Too much hanging around Dom and thinking about the supernatural.

Then she heard something, this time in the hallway. Intent on catching whatever it was, she moved stealthily to the doorway. The sound kept coming closer—she imagined the footsteps of some spectral form, and then had flashbacks to Scooby Doo.

Focus.

Vin held her breath as the…whatever it was…approached and paused at the door. As a dark shape passed through the doorway, she lunged forward and grabbed for it.

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