With the Band by Jean Haus

Author:Jean Haus [Haus, Jean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Coming of Age, United States, Romance, Contemporary, New Adult & College, Teen & Young Adult
ISBN: 147784709X
Google: kUWBngEACAAJ
Amazon: B00GP0GWJW
Barnesnoble: B00GP0GWJW
Goodreads: 19153884
Publisher: Skyscape
Published: 2014-05-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

The swipe of a card sliding in the lock has me hitting the power button on the TV remote, which engulfs the hotel room in darkness. And for a quick instant, I consider jumping across the room into my rollaway. But I’d never make it in time. I slip into the dark bathroom instead.

After Seth had refused to get on a bus, Sam reluctantly agreed to let him come to the concert. Seth had hounded me all day with questions. He’d been by my side while I ran the booth, before and after I took pictures of Luminescent Juliet onstage, while I packed up the booth, and then backstage. No matter how many times I’d refuted the notion, Seth had come up with more ways to insinuate that Sam and I are together. He’s obsessed with proving it. The harassment got so bad that I snuck away, paid for a cab myself, and came back to the hotel alone. As the door starts to open, I’m practically praying Justin is on the other side of it because I can’t deal with Seth anymore.

Unfortunately for me, it’s not Justin. I hear Sam’s voice blare angrily, “No, no, no. Gabe doesn’t give a shit about you.”

“Wrong!” Seth’s voice sounds wild. “He’s after me. Wants to take me down! Of course he’d slip something in my drink! He tried to poison me!”

What? Seth has to be wasted or something. I stand quietly in the bathroom, debating whether to turn on a light or say something to make them aware of my presence.

“Enough of this bullshit! No more of your bullshit!” Sam yells angrily. I freeze at the tone and volume of his voice.

“It’s the truth,” Seth says in a tone that borders on a whimper. I can sense that he’s cowering and refusing to back down at the same time. “It’s the truth,” he repeats.

Someone hits or kicks the bathroom door, then Sam says, “Okay. Okay. Why is he after you?”

“I don’t know. Ask him.” Someone, most likely Seth, stomps on the floor. “But I could tell he was planning something.”

I hear the frown in Sam’s voice as he says, “He was making out with a groupie. How or why the fuck would he be worried about you?”

Seth’s voice drops to a conspiratorial tone. “He wants to get rid of me,” he says. “Do me in. He might be one of the bad guys or even an alien for all we know. “

At those words, I want desperately to disappear, melt down the drain or something, and avoid hearing all this craziness. But there’s only one way out, and it involves leaving the bathroom and passing the brothers. So I stay put.

“Alien? Do you in? Do you in?” Sam repeats incredulously. “A drummer for an up-and-coming band has plans to murder the bassist’s twin brother because . . . ?”

“He’s evil,” Seth says in a wild tone. “You refuse to see it. Like always, you refuse to listen.”

Sam groans. “How long have you been off your fucking meds?”

I hold a gasp in.

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