Stuck with You by Carla Burgess

Author:Carla Burgess
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2017-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

‘Daniel’s in the paper!’ Mum sang as she opened the door to me the following evening. I had my key ready to unlock it and nearly fell in.

‘What do you mean?’

‘His band!’ Mum flapped the paper in my face impatiently. ‘Didn’t he tell you he was going to be in the papers?’

‘No.’ I shut the door behind me and followed her inside. The vacuum cleaner was in the middle of the lounge and the air smelt of furniture polish. ‘Are we expecting visitors?’

‘You cheeky devil! I’m always cleaning.’

‘Yeah, but you don’t normally do it at this time of day,’ I protested as she frogmarched me through the lounge to the kitchen table. She spread out the paper and tapped Daniel’s face with her index finger. ‘Wow!’ I gazed at the full-page article in amazement.

‘Doesn’t he look handsome!’ she said, proudly.

I kept quiet, even though I was in complete agreement with her. He looked very serious. Brooding, in fact, like some big, famous rock star or something. My heart beat faster just looking at him and I could feel heat in my cheeks.

‘Who’s this chap here? He’s got a funny haircut, hasn’t he?’

‘That’s Zach. He’s lovely.’

‘Get you, hanging out with bands. They’re practically famous now.’

‘Because they’ve been in the local free paper?’ I laughed.

‘We’ve all got to start somewhere.’ Mum nudged me with her elbow. ‘I can’t believe we’ve got a famous rock star coming to prune our apple tree on Wednesday!’

I laughed. ‘You should tell him that. He’ll be chuffed.’

Mum chuckled and I bent my head over the article, absorbing each and every word. They had started as a cover band, but were now performing more and more of their own songs and their audiences were loving them. Zach was the main songwriter, but the article mentioned that Daniel wrote too. He’d kept that quiet. Although it didn’t really surprise me.

‘I’m going to see them play on Friday,’ I said.

‘Really? Whereabouts?’

‘Trafford’s. Although I’m currently going on my own because Rachel can’t come.’

‘Well, that’s all right. It’s not like you don’t know them.’

‘Yeah, I know. I said I’d be there. It’s just, you know, the whole thing of standing in a pub on my own. I feel like a groupie or something. Why don’t you come with me?’

‘I’m too old for all that nonsense. Besides, you’re just getting it on with Daniel. I don’t want to cramp your style.’

‘What do you mean? Getting it on? We’re just friends.’

‘Yeah, right!’ Mum gave me a knowing look and then nodded at the article. ‘You can cut that out and put it in that box under your bed!’

‘What box?’ My cheeks turned scarlet and Mum cackled.

‘The box with all those drawings and poems in. Well, if you didn’t want me to see it, you shouldn’t have left it under your bed. I knocked it over with the vacuum. I must say, it’s quite romantic you getting together with him after all this time. How sweet. Does he know you had a crush on him back then?’

‘Yes.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.