Rock Me (Jaded Ivory Book 1) by Rebecca Brooke

Author:Rebecca Brooke [Brooke, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Toshiba
Published: 2017-09-20T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Mari

The guitar.

I’d been so pissed when I found out Heath and Jackson had helped Cole, I never bothered to really look at it. With shaking fingers I reached for the zipper, slowly pulling it around to open the case. Inside happened to be one of the most beautiful guitars ever made, the finish still as shiny as I remembered.

A Fender acoustic.

The Fender I’d lost to the bullshit in high school was nowhere near the level of the guitar that sat in front of me. As I stared my eyes began to water, but I was afraid that if I blinked it would disappear.

“I still can’t believe you spent this kind of money on a guitar for me.”

Cole placed a finger under my chin and lifted my gaze. “To see your smile, it was worth every penny.”

My heart took off like a racehorse. It was a wonder he hadn’t heard it from across the table. I took deep, even breaths to get myself under control. I ran my hands over the strings reverently. “I’d need to have it tuned.”

Cole shook his head. “Already made sure the guy tuned it before I left the store. Said it might need a small adjustment from travel, but that’s it.”

“You did?”

Now, on top of his sweet words sending my mind into a frenzy, my stomach churned with the idea of playing and singing alone. Since the first moment I’d stepped on stage with Jaded Ivory, it had always been all of us. I’d never been up there alone.

“Mari?”

I looked up into the softest, ocean-blue eyes ever. “I was a jackass in the past and missed all my chances to hear your voice back then. But I’ve heard you now and you’re amazing. Please sing for me.”

Something about the way he asked, combined with the irrational need to prove myself, had my legs moving of their own volition until I found myself putting my name on the sign-up sheet.

Can I do this alone?

Realistically, I knew I shouldn’t feel that way. Cole had given me no reason up until then to think that I needed to prove my abilities, but that didn’t stop me from needing the validation for myself.

“I can’t do this,” I whispered to my friend Jennifer. “What if I sound terrible?”

It was our in-school performance for the choir concert. Every year we’d put it all out there on the line, praying that the popular kids either skipped school that day or would be on their best behavior, which wasn’t likely. This year it was my turn to sing the solo, and as I waited in the wings of the stage I wondered what they had planned.

Jennifer narrowed her eyes. “You have to be kidding me. You have one of the best voices in the entire choir. You are not going to mess up. When you get out there, you’re going to show all the assholes in the audience how good you really are.”

She meant well, but with my luck, whatever happened it would be worse than normal.

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