Sit a Spell by Stacey Alabaster

Author:Stacey Alabaster [Alabaster, Stacey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2020-04-06T16:00:00+00:00

It had been three days since Ribeye Bandits’ tour bus had left the Swift Valley station. And yet I had heard nothing from Vicky. I did not believe that the text on Shu’s phone was actually from Vicky. I was scouring through the TV schedule to see when the festival was being televised and wondering if Ribeye Bandits’ set would be shown. My plan was to try and spot Vicky on stage, even though she was one of the backup guitarists.

Then I would know if Shu was lying to me.

It would have been easy for her to get anyone she knew to text her from their phone, saying that they were having a great time in Dubbo, and then for Shu to change the name to “Vicky” on her phone. I didn’t know what her motive would be for doing that, exactly. But something was way off. I knew that much.

“Darn it,” I said, trying to watch the broadcast on my phone while I waited out in front of the Italian diner. My reception was choppy, and the screen kept on freezing. And the coverage was mainly focusing on the lead singer. A guitarist came on screen, a guy with blonde spiky hair, and I yelped a little, but he was the only one I saw before the video froze.

Maybe I was being stupid waiting in front of the diner. Was I being stood up? I could smell garlic bread wafting out the windows. A car pulled up, and I put my phone away. Ribeye Bandits’s set had finished anyway.

This is a mistake, I thought. I felt as frozen as the festival footage had been.

But maybe the man standing in front of me was the only person who could help me figure any of this out.

Bruce was wearing a button-up white shirt paired with blue jeans that looked more casual. Perfect lunch date material.

“Should we go inside?”

I nodded and ducked my head down as he opened the door for me, wondering if I was underdressed in my large jacket and brown leather pants. Should I have worn a dress? I’d never spent much time in Mayfield, even though it was only fifteen minutes from my town. It was small and had never held much attraction for me. The only selling point it had over Swift Valley was that it had a cinema, but I’d never been a big film watcher.

“They have good coffee here,” Bruce said with a grin as we studied the menus.

“I’ll just have a peppermint tea,” I said to the waitress. “Trying to cut back on the coffee,” I told Bruce.

“Well, you picked a good time to do that.”

I went back to looking at the menu.

“Did you get a chance to look into what I told you about Candace?” Bruce asked. The question caught me off guard because it didn’t seem like a first-date question. Maybe this wasn’t a date after all. I wasn’t sure if that made me feel relieved or disappointed.

“I was actually hoping to ask you a few more questions about that,” I said as my peppermint tea arrived, and I took a sip.

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