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The first headline made me smirk

GONE GIRL

WHERE DID THE TRAGIC PRINCESS OF ROCK GO?

"Cute," I’d said dryly

For the first six months, there were sporadic articles aboutin Micah’s na to the newspapers he’d checked himself in three months after I took off He’d apparently been sober ever since The only article about hie scholarship fund he’d set up in Montana for kids in foster care

That al well in his personal life I didn’t know if there was a new girl and it felt strange to now hope that there was I was happy with someone new and I wanted hi so well

DID TELLURIAN’S MOJO FLEE WITH FINCH?

MACY PROVES SHE AIN’T NO TELLURIAN

TELLURIAN’S FIFTH ALBUM FAILS TO CHART THE TOP TWENTY

It uys fail To knoas ht months prior:

BAND PLEADS FOR THE SAFE RETURN OF SKYLAR FINCH

My breath caught and I clicked on the article I was somewhat relieved to discover that it was a case of a headline twisting the truth to get clicks It led me to a YouTube video of an intervieith MTV the band had done eightin the middle of my boys, where I used to sit Whether it was her idea or not, she still wore her hair like I used to--dyed a h, whereas I alore ht

She was traditionallyblue eyes, round cheekbones, and full lips She did backing vocals on a couple of tracks for us That’s how they’d found her She was nice I was glad they’d chosen someone nice

"So," the MTV presenter finished up a line of questioning about the direction of the new album, "of course we have to address the elephant in the roo disappearance from the public eye We all understand why she had to leave the band and you guys have spoken openly about your support of that decisionbut where is she? Her fans want to know I enuinely worried, and if she’s okay, maybe she should let her fans know she’s okay Do you knohere she is?"

Austin and Brandon shared a look while Micah stared stonily at the floor Finally, Brandon sighed He looked exhausted and couldn’t hide his worry "Honestly, we don’t know exactly where Skylar is right now All we know is that she’s taking some time off"

"So, you don’t know if she’s okay?" the presenter said draht noould you want to say to her?"

"That we hope she’s safe That if she’s okay, she should call us We miss and love her" Brandon’s voice tre to compose himself He seeot up and walked off ca that broke me

Autumn wrapped her arm around me and I leaned into her as I cried softly

They deserved better

The relared at Lois the publicity annoyance "We get it, you think social ht But Tellurian’s sales haven’t pluic love story for the press" I looked at Killian "I listened to soreat And I’ood voice The music, it’s tired"