Redeem by Rachel Schurig

Author:Rachel Schurig [Schurig, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2014-12-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Cash

Our morning writing session is our best yet. We actually work all the way through lunch, which is basically unheard of. One of us is pretty much always hungry. But we’re clicking right now, bouncing ideas off of each other, adding to the notes and the lyrics of the others, building up on the skeletons of these songs until they feel full and complex. We haven’t done this well in months, not since our second album. I feel a little embarrassed, honestly, as I listen to my brothers attack the chorus of one of Reed’s songs—our initial effort, that demo that we sent to the label, was crap. They were right to demand we redo it. The difference between those songs and what we’re starting to build now is like night and day. As much as I hate to admit it, a lot of what was wrong with that demo was me. Reed had said the songs were shallow and flat and he was right—my songs were shallow and flat.

Blake is even pleased, which freaks me out a little. Blake is never satisfied. But he called our dad and the guys at the label and it was decided that we were making so much progress we should extend our stay. A fact that made me pretty damn happy, if I’m honest about it.

I try not to think about how relieved the news has made me as I say goodbye to my brothers and climb into my car. Since we skipped lunch I’m starving, but I don’t want to take the time to stop and eat. I have somewhere to be and I have no plans to be late.

I pull up to the soccer field just as the kids are running out from the sidelines, a cluster of blue jersey boys opposite their yellow-clad counterparts. I climb out of the car, pulling my sunglasses down, and search for Wyatt. When I see him I bark out a laugh—his hair is heavily gelled in a faux hawk, the way I’d worn mine on our last tour. It can’t be a coincidence. I wonder what Sam thinks of this development.

I find her on the side of the field, sitting cross-legged in the grass. A lot of the other parents are clustered together in camp chairs, talking, not watching the game but for a perfunctory glance or two. Sam’s eyes sweep up and down the field, following Wyatt’s every move. She yells a few words of encouragement and I see a shy little grin cover his face as he runs by.

“What’d I miss?” I ask, joining her in the grass.

She looks over at me in surprise. “When’d you get here?”

“Just now. Sorry I’m late.”

“You’re not. They’re just starting.”

We’re silent for a moment, the rare sunshine beating down on my forearms. Finally she sighs. “I take it you noticed the hair.”

I can’t wipe the grin off my face. “Yeah. Where you think he got that?”

She pushes me. “You know exactly where he got that.”

“You

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