Paparazzi by Andrea Smith

Author:Andrea Smith [Smith, Andrea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Andrea Smith
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Seth

She was here. I’d glimpsed her almost immediately from the sand where we’d been playing volleyball for the past hour and a half. Julia had insisted we play since she’d missed her workout at the gym this morning, but I also figured it was her way of avoiding Neely. Neely wasn’t a welcome topic around our place. She never had been.

Blake had told us the night before he was bringing Neely to Manzone’s party because Jazzy hadn’t been feeling well. I hadn’t been bothered by that fact nearly as much as Julia had. Maybe I had finally come to terms with everything Neely.

Or maybe I hadn’t, I realized bitterly. When had Neely and I ceased to be important to one another I wondered.

Had it been when she’d left early to return to Tennessee that summer, leaving the promise ring I’d given her with a brief note telling me she thought we were both too young to make promises? I’d been devastated, but still determined to fix whatever it was that caused her to want to distance herself from me.

Or had it been when she ignored my letters and phone calls the weeks afterward, and then finally sent me the letter that had torn me to shreds?

Neely had been mine. Right from the start, even as kids before either one of us knew the score, I’d claimed her as mine. I thought she’d felt the same, but obviously, I’d been wrong.

I’d come inside from the beach to check out the party. I looked around and spotted Blake at the bar getting a shot of tequila from the looks of it. “Hey dude,” I greeted, slapping him on the back, “where’s your date?”

Nothing like getting right to the point about Neely and her whereabouts.

Slick. Real Slick, Seth.

He spun around, giving me a shit-eating grin that only meant one thing. He was shit-faced. “Uh…probably getting laid by Jasper Knight would be my guess.”

I frowned. Was he serious? “What the fuck are you talking about, man?”

He tossed down his shot, and asked for another. “He took her to a private showing of the music video in the studio I guess. That was like thirty or forty minutes ago. You do the math.” He waggled his eyebrows at me. I wasn’t fucking amused.

For one thing, I’d had enough of the hype around the video. That’s all Julia could talk about over the past month. Yeah, I got it that chicks had a thing for rock stars, but when she wasn’t going on about Jasper Knight, then she was going on about Alan Manzone.

What the fuck was I?

Chopped fucking liver?

I had a starring role in a prime time drama series, not to mention that TV Guide had nominated me for a best supporting actor award in said series. And no, I hadn’t won, but being nominated was no small thing.

“Do a shot with me, man?” Blake asked, bringing me back to the present. He held out a glass that had a shot of tequila in it.

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