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"Then don’t bother," Ginger said "Find so on Jay," I stated
"I wasn’t planning on it, honest," Marna pro on her sister "Can’t I take one flippin’ night off? We’re on holiday!"
Ginger’s iron resolve seemed to waver as she looked at her sister’s bottom lip puckered out
"Oh, fine Whatever I swear, one day, Marna"
Ginger leaned back against the rail with her elbows up and viewed the band over her shoulder I watched Kaidan acknowledge her with a curt nod, and she signaled back with an unladylike hand gesture He lifted a corner of his mouth in amusement There had to be a story between those two That kind of ani
"Uh-oh," Marna whispered "Cupcake er and I turned to see Jay standing alone at the rail, while his guardian angel went ballistic around him No! He took off his baseball hat and turned it around, pulling the bill low on his forehead Ginger grabbed my arm when I moved toward him
"You can’t interfere!" she hissed I pulled one?" I whispered to the girls
"Yes, he’s beloith the cro," Marna said
I walked over to Jay, hoping the whisperer would not coer cursed behind me
His eyes were dark, partially hidden under the hat He didn’t register my hand when I put it on his forearreen seeped into his e n that the whisperer was gone, and I focused on Jay
"What are you thinking about?" I asked his around hiel and me, we could pull him out of this
"It just sucks that so" Bitterness laced each word "I want to be able to do it myself I’ll never be in a band I’ll always be the short, fat guy behind the scenes"
"Jay!" I gasped "First of all, you are not fat You are healthy and handsouys down there would give anything to be able to createwas incredible, and it’s yours But you can’t have it all If you could sing, but you had no creative iination, you wouldn’t be Jay You would be shallow lead-singer Michael, with no depth at all We can’t all be performers If there were no behind-the-scenes, there would be no music industry How bad would that suck?"
"I hear you," he said, and the vile green slowly began to peel away in thin strips "It’d just be nice to be the guy up front for once"