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The coreed to meet one last time after the concert to help coordinate clean-up efforts, then they split up to continue working their respective posts Mi of e her hardest to find Zeke Everyone who knew her (and even people who’d never spoken to her before) stopped to congratulate her Allie and Tom, and Kitty and Pilar and the rest of the Babes had been astonished They’d crowded around her, shooting questions right and left, wanting to kno Billy Brenton had come to play at the festival Mimi promised she’d tell them the story later (after she knew herself!)
And then Billy began to sing Weekend Cowboy and it was like he was the Pied Piper, because she auto room only crowd and onto the dance floor She searched the dozens of faces around her until her gaze zeroed in on a tallher froo They weren’t kids anyain She felt young and flirty and was co directly in front of her
“Care to dance?” Zeke asked
He waited for her to anshich wasn’t like him Normally, he’d ask and take her hand at the same time The fact that he didn’t made her pulse jump in time to the music It was like he was the same, yet a different Zeke from the one she’d always known
“I’d love to,” she said
They’d danced less than thirty seconds before Billy switched up songs to Better Me, his nition Couples spilled fro the already-packed dance floor
Zeke pulled her in close as Mimi wrapped her arms around his neck to sway to the slow, seductive tune that literally thousands of newly married couples across the country had selected for their first dance (Miazine!) To think, they weren’t listening to a wedding band doing a cover, or to a DJ spinning a CD They were dancing to Better Me sung by Billy Brenton hi was unbelievable
Allie and To with happiness Just a few feet away, Pilar and her husband Nick and Lauren and Nate were dancing as well
“This is crazy,” Mimi said “How did this happen?”
“I asked you to dance?” he joked They’d never danced before with Zeke in full uniforun safely holstered at his side re a concert; they were Zeke and Mimi, police chief and mayor, and this was their town
“But how did we end up here? Like this? One day ere just a couple of teenagers with a baby living in a tiny rundown rental off the beach, and now look at us We have two kids and we’re in charge of this whole crazy town!”
“We worked our asses off?” This ti
“Did you think eighteen years ago we’d make it?” she asked softly
“Yes”
Do you think we’ll ue, but instead she said, “Zeke, do you have any idea how Billy Brenton and his band got here?”