Lyrics that Burn by Leah Steele

Author:Leah Steele [Steele, Leah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

My fingers fly over the strings, pressing against the frets and strumming out the chords like it’s muscle memory. It should be with how often I’ve played them. I helped write them five years ago, and I picked them back up when the band and I formed. We didn’t even need to practice them for our audition.

Raina stands in front of me, and I’m finding it difficult to keep my eyes from her ass. She’s been sticking to comfortable clothes since I’ve been doing everything in my power to upset her calm. Which means yoga pants and sweatshirts. That’s when she’s actually wearing clothes. If I have to walk into the kitchen one more time and watch her giggling over something Keaton didn’t say or watch Nash drooling over her, I may have to do something drastic to turn them off her.

Glancing to the side, I find Keaton watching her ass. He seems to have his eyes constantly on her, tracking her every move. I hate how it seems like she’s bewitched my friends. They’re supposed to be loyal to me. It’s not like I expected them to join me in making her life miserable, they’re good guys after all, but I didn’t think they’d become friends with her. Not when they know my end goal.

Taking a deep breath, I let it out slowly and do my best to ignore the sound of her voice. I shouldn’t, it could result in me missing one of my cues, but hearing her sing the lyrics we wrote together makes my anger burn brighter. Our young love is woven into each one. The lies embedded make me want to cut off her words, to shake her until she admits she didn’t mean a single one. To make her apologize for what she did. For not being there or following through on her promises.

Instead of letting her voice affect me, I listen to my bandmates and follow their progression, so I stay on beat. It’s been working well for me so far. Two weeks of having Raina back in my life, and we’re now sounding like we’ve always been a group. We practice daily for hours, and every fucking day she tests my resolve. She toes the line of how far she can take things until I report her for a breach of contract. And for some reason, I haven’t done it. Don’t ask me why, but torturing her is more important than hitting her in the bank account. Seems like her label is doing that enough for the both of us anyway.

We finish the song and move onto the next in the set. It’s one of her newer ones. It isn’t as difficult to hear her sing this one since I didn’t help her write it. There aren’t those strong memories attached to it threatening to drown me in thoughts of our past. But it still sounds like she’s mocking me. She goes on about a broken heart, like she’s taken all my pain, everything she did to me, and turned it into a song about her.

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