Mayhem by Jamie Shaw

Author:Jamie Shaw
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

TWO HOURS LATER I slap the book closed, and Adam raises his eyebrow at me. “That’s all she wrote,” I say.

“We’re done?

I nod. “Yep. Except for practicing the written stuff.”

“We’ll have some time before the show.”

“Sounds good.” I smile over at him. “Congrats.”

Adam reaches over and squeezes my shoulder. “Couldn’t have done it without you, you know.”

“Oh, believe me,” I chuckle, “I know.”

A smile stays on his lips as he asks, “Are you going to help me study for the rest of the semester?”

Are we seriously making plans for the future?! My feet twitch in anticipation of the nerdy dance I’d be doing if Adam wasn’t sitting right next to me to see it. My lips are just as twitchy, threatening to beam a giddy full-­faced smile at him. “Sure, if you want me to.”

“I want you to.” He flashes me that smooth white grin, his eyes happy and sincere.

“You need me to.”

He laughs. “That too.” In truth, Adam doesn’t need me at all. He just needs to apply himself, but he doesn’t seem capable of doing that without someone breathing down his neck.

When I finally toss our textbook into the back and sit up straight, the sun glints off a road sign saying we’re ten miles outside of Fairview. I raise my eyebrow. “Where is this next concert, exactly?” We’re less than twenty miles outside of my hometown, and Adam told me our locations in distance, not by name.

“Fairview. Why?”

I tell Adam about growing up near here and that my parents still live two towns over. He jokes about me taking him home to meet Mom and Dad, and I laugh. My dad would have a heart attack and my mom . . . well, she’d probably bake chocolate-­chip cookies and smile as she gifted Adam with fingernail polish remover as a two-­months-­early Christmas gift.

When we pull up to the venue, we have an hour and a half until showtime. On the bus, I sit Adam down with the textbook and a notepad from my backpack and he dives into written exercises, determined to finish before the show so he doesn’t have to do any studying afterward. I grab a Red Bull from the kitchen and sit nearby. The roadies are all inside the venue setting up, but most of the band is still on the bus, with the exception of Joel. After a while, I realize they’ve all been giving me super-­weird looks.

I stare hard at Cody, who has been by far the least subtle. “What?”

He sniggers. “So much for all that stuff about self-­respect, huh?”

“Uh, what?”

Mike snaps at Cody to shut the hell up, but Cody just chuckles some more. Mike casts me an apologetic glance, and from the way he looks at me and then quickly breaks eye contact, like he’s embarrassed for me, it finally dawns on me.

They think I slept with Adam.

“WHOA, whoa, whoa!” I say, animating my words with my hands. “NOTHING happened last night! I slept in the back room because I didn’t want to be held responsible for strangling Joel in his sleep.

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