The Next Verse by Emma Tharp

Author:Emma Tharp [Tharp, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-27T06:00:00+00:00

Eleven

Cam

“Eek. I can’t believe we actually did it,” Penny says as the plane’s wheels touch down in Seattle.

“Me either. They’re going to be so surprised.” We did it. Penny and I bought plane tickets to visit Kingston and Davies and see their show tonight. Since I couldn’t get a weekday off, we chose to fly out early Saturday morning and leave on the last flight out, a red eye back home Sunday night. It’ll be a short trip, but it’s something.

Spending every waking minute with Kingston before he left to go on tour still wasn’t enough time. Our first night together sealed the deal for me. I’m all in with him. And he’s been gone for almost two weeks. He’s making good on all of his promises: he’s texting and calling constantly, and we FaceTime every day. My apartment smells like a garden. My heart hurts when I can’t touch him.

Penny and Davies have also been in almost constant communication. Before he left, they met up a couple of times, once for lunch and he came over to watch a movie at her place. She said they only kissed, but by the way she acts whenever she talks about him, I have to wonder if she’s being honest with me. I do know that she is quite smitten, so when I half-jokingly asked her if she thought we should surprise the guys and go to one of their shows, she said yes immediately and went online to start pricing airline tickets.

Dragging our carry-ons behind us, we make our way to the rental car area and pick up the car we reserved. All of this would’ve been cheaper and easier if I would’ve told Kingston we were coming. He would’ve paid for our flights, and I don’t doubt he would’ve flown us first class. And I know he would’ve sent a car for us, too, but it’s going to be fun to surprise him and see the look on his face when we show up.

We’re given a compact car, a little red box, but it’ll do the trick. It’s about two and a half hours to get from the airport to The Gorge where the guys are playing. If we don’t get lost, we should be able to meet up with the guys for dinner before the show.

“What do you think Kingston is going to say when we show up?” Penny asks.

“He’s going to lose it. He’s been begging me to come and see him play just about every day. I stuck with the story and told him there would be no way to make it work.”

“It’s hard being sneaky, isn’t it?” Penny says as she pulls out into traffic, scaring me half to death. A huge black SUV’s horn blasts as it veers off out of the lane Penny just pulled into, barely missing our car.

Gripping the handle above my head, I say, “Can you please be careful? I’d like to be alive to see Kingston today.”

More cars around us honk and swerve away from us as we take a turn at the last second.

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