Lost & Found (Pain & Pleasure Book 3) by AJ Nicole

Author:AJ Nicole [Nicole, AJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-03-14T18:30:00+00:00

twenty

THIRTEEN YEARS AGO

“Please mom. Jaxon just bought a new guitar and I kind of want to see him embarrass himself.” Hollis shrugged her shoulders excitedly with a goofy smile plastered on her face as her mom leaned into the oven.

The smell of meats and cheeses filled the air as her mom’s famous lasagna was put to bake.

“Hollis, dinner starts in thirty-five minutes. Can’t you wait until after dinner?” Her mom gave her an unsure look. But Hollis didn’t give up. She knows that Jax had been asking for a guitar for a while now and she really wanted to be the first one to hear him practice something on it.

“Mom, you know Jaxon has different friends now. He’s in high school, remember? He’s probably going to hang out with them tonight and I don’t think he’ll have time for me this weekend.” She didn’t intend to let her sadness show, but it was inevitable. She didn’t like thinking about how Jax might be moving on to a different friend group, or a different life in general. One that might not include her.

But he had been her best friend for so long, she wasn’t ready to give him up.

“Okay, but you need to be back here in thirty minutes to help set the table. Got it?” Her mom turned to wash her hands as Hollis squealed.

“Thanks, mom!” She didn’t waste any more time and bolted out the front door and across the street to Jaxon’s house.

She knocked at the front door and waited for Delanie to answer.

“Hey sweet girl, he’s in his room.” She smiled at her, and Hollis squeezed past to run up the stairs.

Before she even got to his door, she could hear the sounds of the string instrument echoing off the hallway walls, and he sounded…kind of good.

She peeked her head around the corner and watched him for a few minutes. He had a music sheet out in front of him as he sat crisscrossed on his bed. She remembered thinking that he looked way more grown up this way and that thought also made her kind of sad but then she realized she was just being stupid. Everyone needed to grow up eventually. Just because she was twelve and he was sixteen didn’t mean that he was going to leave her behind.

Jax started strumming his fingers across the stings of his guitar again, a pick between them–not noticing that he was being watched. He focused on what was in front of him as he was trying his best to get the song just right.

He’d been trying to learn the same song for weeks now, and he was so close to perfecting it. It kind of meant something to him, and the moment he got the guitar, he knew what song he wanted to learn first.

Hollis walked into his room and got close enough to alert him of her presence without scaring him and the second he saw her, his smile curled beautifully across his face.

“About time,” he said to her as he scooted his music over and patted the space next to him, allowing her to sit.

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