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He laughed "I’el" He leaned over and kissed ainst , "And lead singer and guitarist, Jake Slater!"

Jerking away froo" He then proceeded to se with er than I’d seen him use before

Lily wrapped her aruys, huh?"

I couldn’t keep the goofy grin offto talk tos true love when I see it, and you and Jake are the real deal"

My heart fluttered at her assessment We then fell silent to watch our ht Jake a headset and took his microphone, my brows furrowed in confusion I didn’t know that they had added a different part to the show

After he adjusted the headset, he turned to me and winked "So as some of you may know, this is usually the part of the shohere I have a fan brought up on stage to sing to But tonight I want to change things up a bit" Jake paused for a ht words "Three weeks ago a girl fell into my life Well, actually she accidentally fell into asped as the audience whistled and catcalled "Before her, Iwith that special soh her physical and inner beauty, she taughtyour heart to soed breath, andhis emotions "In soto the wings, he el"

Frozen, I couldn’t blink, least of all e me forward, or I would have res, I strode across the stage to where Jake stood beckoningrin curved on Jake’s lips as he took allantly kissed ers, which caused the audience screael"

In a weird, out-of-body experience, ave a lame iththat would have captured everything you are toover his shoulder, Jake said, "All right boys, let’s hit it"

AJ started in with a druuitar intro Alasped It was Aerosel, and it was all for ht…" Jake sang into the azed into his eyes and saw the euitar or microphone to hold, his hands were free to roa, his eyes never left houtthe lyrics At the second verse, he spunhis ar while he crooned into my ear Well, even with thejust to me when actually he held a crowd of fifty thousand in rapt attention I barely realized when Brayden har in the world but Jake perforot to the part where he repeated "Cohis lips to mine I could’ve cared less that ere in front of thousands and thousands of people It felt like it was just the two of us, and I couldn’t get enough of hiainst hi around his as AJ chimed in with Brayden to finish the lyrics for Jake We didn’t break apart until the music ended, and the screams and whistles interrupted our aze to the crowd Jake chuckled into the microphone at my reaction "So what do you think, Atlanta? Can you see nohy this a, I waited for a round of boos and hisses to co fe but cheers andelse? She has a kickass voice, and not only did we just record our first duet, but rote the song together too Would you like to hear it?"

Although the fans ild, I couldn’t help grabbing his shirt and protesting, "No, Jake!"

He leaned over to whisper in h you don’t want to believe it, you’re ready for this moment All you have to do is tune everyone else out and just look intoto each other just like always"

A ripple of pleasure ran throughood thing because a technician appeared out of nowhere with an exact replica of an as other technicians raced around placing stools on the stage and adjusting the rin, Jake’s only reply was a wink He handed off his headset and then turned back to the crowd We both eased down onto the stools and adjusted our guitars on our laps Ihalf of Atlanta

"All right, this is a very special song, and it’s called I’ll Take You with Me"

Jake began struing to the audience, he swiveled on his stool to where he could look at ain, his performance was so heartfelt and strained with e the chorus together, and then it was time for my solo I didn’t take my eyes off of Jake the entire time A shadow of a suitar

When we finished, I leaned over to kiss hiainst his lips