Quest For A Popstar by Katie Hamstead

Author:Katie Hamstead [Hamstead, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-01-15T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

The guys Lucas lives with spend the afternoon entertaining me. They’re the perfect distraction as Kent plays guitar—classical to hard rock—Shawn plays every single brass instrument, and Taylor and Lucas mix and compose. The pair clash over arrangements, bickering like boys about things I feel like I should understand about music, but don’t.

Clarissa sits beside me, watching the guys with a wide smile. “They put on a good show, huh?”

I lean closer to her to speak in a low voice. “Yeah. How on earth do the neighbors tolerate this?”

“They don’t have anyone in the adjacent apartments. They all asked to be moved.”

“No wonder they’re kind of out in the far reaches of the complex.”

“Yeah, they asked for that.” She pats my knee. “So, I’m not allowed to crash here. Is it okay if I stay with you tonight?”

“Sure.”

She grins. “Girls’ night! What are we going to do? I’m thinking eighties flicks, hit up the candy aisle, a giant bag of popcorn, then pass out on the floor.”

I chuckle. “Sounds good.”

“Hailey!” Taylor bellows.

I glare across at him for the rude interruption. “What?”

“We’re going out tonight.” He motions between me and him.

“Um…” I glance at Clarissa who has stopped breathing.

“Lucas needs to be brought down a peg,” Taylor says, shoving Lucas’s shoulder. “That show you guys were on has made him a jerk.”

Clarissa lets out her breath.

“Clarissa’s too young for karaoke bars, if that’s what you’re thinking,” I say.

“Ah crap.” He slumps. “All right. We’ll go to the arcade.”

“I’m not five,” Clarissa responds.

“Miniature golfing?” he asks, raising his eyebrows for approval.

Clarissa smiles. “Better.”

Taylor points at Lucas. “You’re going down.”

Within minutes we’re packed in Lucas’s car, after a fight about Taylor not sitting up front and Lucas saying that Taylor needs to learn to be a gentleman.

We arrive at the miniature golf course and the guys pay, at Lucas’s insistence. Clarissa and I hang back as Lucas and Taylor argue over the first few holes. We watch the pair, and as Taylor swings his club around wildly, Clarissa says, “Guys are weird.”

“Yup.” I keep my gaze locked firmly on that club in case it flies out of Taylor’s hands.

“Why are they arguing?”

“No idea.”

“Why are we here while they’re arguing?”

“Again, no idea.”

“Let’s play through.”

“Okay.”

We play right through their argument, and two holes later, they realize we’ve moved on. They stop arguing after that.

While Lucas helps Clarissa line up a difficult shot, Taylor leans against me. “So, you said on the show you have a boyfriend.”

I frown. “I don’t want to talk about it.”

“He wasn’t real?”

“No, he was. I guess.”

“Ohh, is that why they came back while everything is still going? Bad luck, kid.” He gives my shoulder a gentle nudge. “I’m sorry. If it’s any consolation, Lucas knows how that feels.”

“Yeah, he said his girlfriend cheated.”

“Yeah, it was awful. I wanted to deck him for what he did to Lucas. Who does that really?”

Him? Does Lucas know the guy who his girlfriend cheated with? “Who?”

He looks down at me, frowning. “Oh, he didn’t go into details.

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