Pop Star by Eden Finley

Author:Eden Finley [Finley, Eden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

“We should totally come up with something like the infamous conscious uncoupling wording so everyone’s talking about us,” Evah says. She walks across our living room and sits next to me on the couch, still in the silk nightgown she always wears to bed.

I take a deep breath. “If I haven’t thanked you enough for this, I’m gonna keep saying it. Thank you.”

After the concert last night where we went into fix it mode, my team came to the conclusion that I need to make the song about Evah—a goodbye.

We went straight to the airport and came home as soon as we were allowed to take-off. We arrived an hour ago at the crack of dawn.

“This was always the plan.” Evah takes my hand. “We’re just … moving it up. If we can paint it like we’re both too busy right now and it’s a reluctant breakup, the song makes more sense. And we could probably stay friends without too much speculation.”

“I know it’s not what we originally were going to do.” We were supposed to plan this properly, but now we’re half-assing it at the last minute to cover the fact I’m a dumbass.

“This will still work without too much backlash on either of us,” Evah says.

“People are going to think you broke my heart and I’m all emo over you.”

“People were always going to think that. You’re the perfect guy, remember?”

Yeah. Perfect.

My gaze slowly goes to Brix, who’s sitting in the armchair across the room. He’s pretending not to listen, but I know he is.

Obviously, we haven’t had time to digest what happened last night. Again. After we said it wasn’t going to happen.

I love getting myself into messes.

We said it would be different this time. No regrets.

I’m not regretting it at all, and if it were up to me, I’d go over there right now and ask him to hold me because I know he’d make me feel better.

But I don’t know if that’s what he wants. Maybe what he said last night was in the heat of the moment, and today he’s back to worrying about his job.

I’ll have to talk to him about it, but the next few days are going to be crazy busy. Paparazzi are going to be a heavy presence on both Evah and me. And I’m due to start recording in the studio next week.

“Okay, so what can we use that’s like conscious uncoupling without fully plagiarizing that?” Evah asks.

“Purposefully … breaking up.” I shrug. “I don’t know. Can’t we just say we’re both moving on and focusing on our careers right now?”

Gideon and Jamie come through the front door with takeout food for breakfast.

“How bad is it out there?” I ask.

“The street’s full of paparazzi,” Jamie says.

The publicist for the label put out the official statement last night that Evah and I are done. We just have to work out what to say directly to our fans.

Evah’s tapping away on her phone, and I assume she’s writing up a draft, but then she says, “Cognizant disentanglement.

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