Stuff We All Get by K. L. Denman

Author:K. L. Denman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV031040, book
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2011-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Jolene walks straight toward me but stops before she gets too close. “Hey.”

“Hey,” I echo. Nothing else comes out of my mouth. My brain has gone blank.

“So,” she says. “Zack, right?”

I manage a nod.

She takes a tiny step closer. “You wanted to tell me something about my music?”

“Yeah!” I wave my hands around as I struggle to speak. “It’s freakin’… whoa. Amazing!”

She smiles. “Thanks. I’m wondering who…I mean, I don’t think I’ve seen you before, have I?”

I keep nodding until I’m finally able to form a sentence. “I moved to town about a month ago.”

Her smile fades as she asks, “So you live here?”

“Yeah,” I say. For some reason I feel like apologizing. When she doesn’t say anything else, I add, “Uh, is that a problem?”

She shrugs. “No. I was hoping you were from someplace else.” She eyes me and says, “I did think you were a little young.”

I ignore the part about me being young. She looks close to my age, maybe a bit older—not enough to matter. “Well, I was from someplace else but—”

She cuts me off. “Where exactly did you hear my music?”

“There was this guy who…but never mind him.” I jam my hand into my jacket pocket and fish out the cd. I hold it up and say, “It was this. I heard you singing on this.”

She snatches the cd out of my hand and stares at it as if she can’t believe what she’s seeing. Then her eyes flick up, and she nails me with a furious glare. “Where did you get this?”

“By the lake,” I stammer. “On the hill. It was in this, uh, thing.”

“A thing?” she asks.

“A geocache. It was part of the swag.”

She shakes her head. “I have no clue what you’re talking about.”

“You mean you didn’t put it there?” I ask.

“Why would I do that? It was the only copy. Someone took it. A long time ago, like, last fall.”

“Really? That’s terrible. Your only copy, huh?”

She nods. “Yeah.” She tucks the cd into her purse and turns away.

“Wait!” I yelp.

She turns and raises her eyebrows. “My break’s almost over. I have to go.”

“But. Um. Maybe I could help you.”

The eyebrows go higher. “You could help me?” she asks.

“Yeah. I love your music, you know. I could make you extra copies. I mean, I can’t believe you’re not already famous.”

Her smile is back. “Yeah?” She hesitates for a moment, then pulls the cd out of her purse. “You’d make some copies for me? You can do that?”

“Absolutely. No problem. I’ll burn them on my computer—as many as you want. You can send them out to radio stations. And maybe you could put it online, like other indie musicians. As soon as people hear this, they’re going to want more.”

I stop talking when she grabs my hand. “Wow, Zack. You think so?”

“Oh, yeah,” I say. “I do.”

She’s still holding my hand, but her gaze is far away. “That’s my dream. To do all that. But after the cd was taken, I gave up for a while.

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