Music and Lies (George and Finn Book 1) by Gill-Marie Stewart

Author:Gill-Marie Stewart [Stewart, Gill-Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Published: 2015-02-19T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

FINN

I was lying in my tent. Not sleeping. I was still too hyped after seeing Jay walking on to the stage. I should have checked out if The Kings Of Billy were playing here, but I hadn’t been that interested in Marcus’s stupid line up. So I lay there, just thinking over the evening. Apart from Jay, it had been okay. Beck had been quite up. She was coping better than I’d hoped. And, I had to admit I quite liked spending time with George Wray. I enjoyed the way she enjoyed things. Even if she had taken a shine to The Kings, the last band I wanted to hang out near. Watching her kind of reminded me you could be happy like that – without the drugs or the alcohol that everyone else resorted to.

I wasn’t listening for Beck, or for anything really, but suddenly I knew something wasn’t right. There were people moving around all the time, even in the early hours of the morning, but this was different. The way the person sniffed, fidgeted, hesitated and then went on.

I unzipped the tent slowly, and was just in time to see Beck moving off around the back of the campsite.

Shit! I jumped so high I hit my head on the pole at the top of the tent, which fortunately wasn’t that hard. I fumbled around to get my boots on, find a jacket, check the tablet was still in my pocket. I had to stop her. This was the dangerous time, the really dangerous time. No one knew that better than I did. I was an idiot, a moron. I’d got complacent and left her with George who didn’t have a clue.

I headed straight for Dex’s van. That was the worst place, the one she’d most likely go to. I needed to get there as soon as possible, even head her off if I could.

I wasn’t quick enough for that but for once in my life I was lucky. Dex wasn’t in.

I found Beck banging on the door, trying to speak through the crack at the side. ‘Please, Dex, I need some. I really need some. De-ex!’

‘Hiya Beck,’ I said, as though I hadn’t heard her words. ‘Don’t think Dex is in just now.’

‘He must be. He has to be.’

‘Look, why don’t we go for a walk? We don’t want to disturb everyone.’

She looked around and seemed to notice for the first time that faces were peering through windows of a couple of nearby vans. She didn’t like that, thank God.

‘Oh, I didn’t realise …’

I took her arm and led her away, not sure where we were going except that I didn’t want her anywhere near the van when Dex came back.

I headed up the slope towards the trees. It was quieter here, people were less likely to overhear us if she did start shouting. But the fight seemed to have gone out of her. She followed me docilely, and, when I tripped over a tree trunk lying on the ground, we sank down onto it.

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