An Everyday Hero by Laura Trentham

Author:Laura Trentham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

Chapter 14

Tuesday afternoon, Greer stifled a yawn as she stepped into the Music Tree Foundation toting a guitar case and beginner guitar lesson books. Saturday had been another late night spent working behind the bar at Becky’s.

Guilt sent her to church on Sunday morning after a few hours of sleep, and she’d desperately needed toothpicks to hold her eyes open during the sermon. Sandwiched between her parents on the pew, she’d felt about nine years old. Except her mind had kept drifting to Emmett and the very adult encounter they’d shared Friday night.

He hadn’t called her, but then again, she hadn’t reached out to him either. As the rejected party, she had her pride to shore up like a house of cards. Still, she wondered. And worried about him despite telling herself he wanted neither from her.

Emmett’s mother and father hadn’t coerced him into rejoining their flock of sinners, and she could only imagine his caustic commentary if they had.

The rest of Sunday was spent cooking with her mom. By Monday, the late nights of her weekend and early Sunday had caught up with her, and she’d slunk out of bed at ten in the morning.

Could she even hold down an eight-to-five job?

With her future as foggy as ever, she focused on her session with Ally. Ally needed her; Emmett did not. He had to figure out how to pry his head out of his own butt. She couldn’t do it for him.

Ally had all kinds of potential. Potential Greer didn’t want to see frittered away. If she nagged Ally, she would come off sounding like a teacher or parent and drive Ally’s frittering level to eleven. Greer had to play it cool.

Ally showed up fifteen minutes late and out of breath. “Sorry. Had some stuff to take care of.”

When a slingshot What kind of stuff? nearly shot out of her mouth, Greer put on a smile she didn’t feel and kept her voice casual. “No worries. I brought you something.”

Ally narrowed her eyes. “What?”

Why did she fall back into a position of suspicion with any offer of help? Greer pushed the guitar with her foot, under the table and still in its case, until it met resistance in the form of Ally’s combat boots.

Ally ducked her head and gasped. A look like a kid coming down the stairs Christmas morning passed over her face before she shut it down with a mask of teenage nonchalance. “That’s for me to use today?”

“Yes, but also for you to take home with you and practice on. It was my very first guitar. I’m pretty sure the spirit of my teenage angst is lurking somewhere in the body. I have the feeling you two would really hit it off.” Greer pulled the canvas bag of instruction books onto the table between them. The worn book she pulled out had pages falling out. It was filled with classic rock songs. “You’ll have to experiment with what learning style suits you best, but this worked for me.

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