Marriages and Murder by Stacey Alabaster

Author:Stacey Alabaster [Alabaster, Stacey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2019-02-23T05:00:00+00:00

15

Claire

I was up early, at 6:30, when I slipped the CD into the stereo and made a brew of extra strong coffee. I was curious to see what all the fuss was about.

Some lyrics about blonde hair came blasting out at me when track two started to spin. “She’s got that cool blonde hair, she’s in the long blonde hair club, the kind they all want to join,” came blaring over the speakers as I looked at my own hair in the mirror. The song was called Long Blonde Hair Club. “All the girls want to look like her.” Well, I supposed it was true. Though my hair was not as long as the lady he was singing about on this track. But maybe he didn’t even write it himself—most of those manufactured pop acts didn’t, right?

The Joey Hedge album was incredibly cheesy, but it was catchy. I leaned back and wondered what it would be like to record my own album one day. I mean, I did have an incredible voice. You should see the crowds at karaoke whenever I got up. Of course, then I would I get the crazy fans hovering about. Stalking me. I mean, I already had crazy fans if Lilly was any example. I still thought that having an in-store book signing was a good idea, but at the same time, I might start attracting real life stalkers.

Oh well, the shop was still a total mess anyway. Leaving it in the hands of Bianca had done nothing to help that matter. She’d been in charge of the shop most days while I was busy, and you’d think that she would take some of that time to tidy up just a little. But, no. She was always worried that one of her nails was going to chip at the corner if she so much as read a book, let alone lift one. That was why she was always playing audiobooks over the speakers. She claimed that it actually helped sales because customers asked what she was listening to and then she pointed them to the physical book. If we actually stocked it, that was. And half the time, they went home and actually bought the audio version because Bianca had been advertising it for free. So, zero profits for us.

Plus, she was still living with me while she was ‘getting back on her feet.’ She had lost her apartment in Sydney and was in Eden Bay full-time for a while. Her bedroom was right next to mine, and I knew that she liked to sleep in. She enjoyed her beauty sleep. But that didn’t make me turn my music down. In fact, I turned up the final track on the Joey Hedge album even louder and danced around to it while I got dressed. I could hear a creaking of the floorboards in the room next door that told me she had been woken up. Oh well. It wasn’t like she was paying rent or anything, so she didn’t get a say in how I ran my household.

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