Everything We Are by Janci Patterson

Author:Janci Patterson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Garden Ninja Books
Published: 2019-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

Felix

Ty, Gabby, and I join Jenna down in the studio, where Jenna is splayed out on the couch looking done with the world.

“Ahhh,” I say. “You clearly need a hug. Gabby, hug her for me, please?”

“I’ll hug her,” Ty says, and catapults himself on top of his mom.

“Oof,” Jenna says.

Gabby stands at the foot of the couch while I collapse into my chair next to June.

“Do you need another hug?” Gabby asks.

Jenna sighs. “Yeah, I think I could use one.”

I was mostly joking, but it actually does help to watch Jenna and Gabby embrace on the couch, and then settle back next to each other like old friends. Almost like Jenna’s allowed to be part of my life.

“I am so sorry about that,” Jenna says to Gabby. “Alec isn’t usually that bad.”

“No, I’m sorry,” Gabby says.

“You both need to stop apologizing,” I say. “Knowing the two of you, you’re going to get caught in some endless apology loop and we’ll all be here until the end of time.”

“Alec should apologize,” Ty says, settling onto the floor next to the couch with Angry Birds.

“He should,” Jenna says, and looks over at me. “He wants to make a rule against flirting between members of the band.”

“I heard,” I say. “I also heard he wants to be the cello manager.”

“Just what you want, I’m sure.”

I raise an eyebrow at her. “I am the first chair cello. I have always been the first chair cello. Whether there is one cello or twenty cellos, if there is a cello manager, it is me.”

“And he’s humble about it, too,” Gabby says.

Jenna smiles. “Yes. Always underplaying his own skill.”

They laugh, and I figure I should be bothered, but it’s actually awesome to watch them bond over mocking me. Then I remember what Gabby heard last night, and my cheeks flush.

Hopefully Gabby herself is too embarrassed to bring that up, even in the name of humiliating me.

“It really is good to meet you,” Jenna says. “Felix speaks highly of you. And of your ability to keep secrets.”

“Oh, yeah,” Gabby says. “I won’t tell anyone. The last thing I want is to make trouble for you guys.”

Jenna looks up the stairs, and I know what she’s thinking. Trouble doesn’t need to come at us from without. It’s already brewing from within.

“Do you want me to talk to him?” I ask.

Jenna looks surprised. “You don’t have to. I’m fully capable of yelling at Alec on my own. I do it often enough.”

“She does,” Ty says, not even looking up from his game.

“I don’t mean yell at him,” I say. “Maybe I could just tell him we’re trying here, and ask him to cut us some slack.”

Jenna considers this. “You would do that?”

“Of course. If you think it would help.”

“Well,” she says. “It can’t hurt.”

Gabby nods her agreement, and Jenna turns to her. “So, tell me all the embarrassing stories about Felix.”

Gabby’s eyes widen, and she looks at me. Her cheeks turn pink.

Jenna gives her a curious look, and I know I have to get ahead of this.

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