The Boy Next Door: A Standalone Enemies-to-Lovers Romance by Black Natasha L

Author:Black, Natasha L. [Black, Natasha L.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

19

Jayson

I listened to the guitar die away into silence. For a moment, none of us said anything. Then, Mark threw a fist in the air, letting out a little whoop. “That might be perfect,” he said, grinning ear to ear as he turned toward me.

I nodded. “That was pretty good,” I said cautiously. But I couldn’t help grinning as well. “Better than pretty good, I guess,” I corrected. “We might be able to put that one on the album.”

It had been a few weeks, and we were in the studio. To be honest, I hadn’t expected that this would ever happen. And even if it did ever happen, I hadn’t held out any hope that things would actually work out this well.

Something about Leah yelling at Mark in the middle of the bar seemed to have struck a nerve. He still liked to chase after women whenever he had a chance, which was pretty frequently considering that we were only in the studio for a limited amount of time each day. At the same time, he was really putting some effort in, in a way that I hadn’t expected from him for a while now.

It wasn’t just him, either. Once Mark started to put himself back together, Carter had seemed to take a cue. Or maybe it was just the fact that the rest of us sat him down and told him that if he didn’t chill out with the drinking while we were in the studio, then we were going to find someone to replace him with.

Mark had actually led that charge. I still credited it all to Leah’s intervention, though.

Working on new songs, putting together some different tunes, felt amazing. I had forgotten how good it felt to hear something come to life, to be honest. It was creating life; it was furthering our dreams.

Not only that, but the things we were putting together now, these new songs, were our best work yet. By far. I couldn’t wait to show them to the world. The first person I wanted to have hear them outside of us, though, was Leah. It was all because of her.

It wasn’t just that she had gotten my bandmates to shape up and put the work in; it was also that she had inspired me to push myself as well. She really seemed to believe in us. She really seemed to think we could make it. But in order to do that, we were all going to have to work harder, myself included.

The lyrics I had put together for the new songs were way better than anything I had put together before. They felt relevant. They felt like the kind of songs people would resonate with. They felt like the kind of songs we wouldn’t regret if we were still singing them five or ten years from now.

Somehow, when Carter sobered up some, his guitar playing was better than it had ever been before. I didn’t think he had been practicing all that much, but he surprised us, pulling out some new riffs that none of us could possibly have expected.

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