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Until one day, their song wasn’t a hit, or they offended a fan, or when they got too old, and the next best thing showed up

It didn’t last forever

And if they didn’t have a solid foundation

The fall would be massive—destructive

The words sung by Lucas the other night came into my head in that moment… “When the party’s over…”

The party was still going

But ould happen when it ended?

And he was left cleaning up the mess?

The guys waved again and then slowly got into the van I held the door open for theuy that I’d come to care for crawled into the van

Lucas was last

He slowed and stopped as he came next to me, his head turned

Our eyes locked

No words were said a but the hard slam of my heart as he blinked and then, in a look that would probably scar me forever—deemed me unworthy

It was over

All because I cared too much about him

And he cared too little

I shut the door and walked around security, getting into the driver’s seat, and starting the van

I adjustedhands

“Are you okay, Grace?” Rae was right behind me, his hand on my shoulder

Lucas stared at that hand, then at me in that same mirror, then with a sneer, looked away as if to say, you can have her

“Y-yeah” I sed ain “It’s just a lot of people”

“We’re kind of a big deal,” Jay teased

My laugh fell flat

“Great job today, guys,” Solia said fro day I’ll leave you in Grace’s capable hands”

I wasn’t feeling so capable

“We’ll take good care of her,” Rae whispered in a way that said he wasn’t going to leave my side

I stole another glance at Lucas once we hit the stoplight His eyes were closed like he didn’t have a care in the world

Maybe I rong

Maybe he didn’t

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Looking in the host of us

Grace

By all appearances, Lucas was fine The world was shitting rainbows as he sat next to the rest of his bandain, and I didn’t feel like pretending everything was okay when I kneas all an act