“Rainier,” he interrupted. "I’m not asking for you to give up your college dreams. I’m not even asking you to stop going to school. Maybe you can do online classes this semester. Stay in River Valley. Just give me one semester.Please.”
“Idon’tknow.”
“Then don’t decide tonight. Give Rainier and the Go-Aways one more week. Let’s just see what happens after ournextshow.”
I sat there next to my best friend in silence for several minutes. He knew better than to say anything else, and I needed the quiet to work through what he was asking me. Today it was one week. Next Thursday, it would be back to one semester. If we didn’t get the same break as our predecessors, would he ask for just one year? I couldn’t live my life with that much uncertainty. I opened my mouth to tell him no, but yes came outinstead.
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Michelle
My phone wason my dresser playing the same song over and over again while I looked at the two outfits I’d laid across my bed. Well, one and a half outfits, if you wanted to get technical. There was the leather skirt I picked up at the mall the day before. It was the same one I had asked Avery to buy when we went shopping. Then there was my favorite pair of skinny jeans next to it. I couldn’t decide which looked better with the shirt I waswearing.
“Tell me you’re not watching that again,” Avery said, barging into my room, catching me off guard. I hadn't heard the alarm system beep, but that wasn't surprising considering the volume on my phone was as high as itwouldgo.
I quickly grabbed my phone and turned the screen off before turning to face her. “You’reearly.”
“Barely.”
I looked at the time. “No, you’re an entire hourearly.”
She sat down on my bed looking completely unapologetic. So comfortable, in fact, that she was leaning on the clothing I had thrown on top of it. “If I knew you were going to sit and watch that video of Rainier like a crazy stalker, I never would have shown ittoyou.”
I lifted my brow. “You don’t think I would have seen it without your help? It’s literally everywhereIlook.”
“It’s been a week since that show, and most people havemovedon.”
“Well, Ihaven’t.”
“Obviously.”
“Aves, that song is about me. He brought me flowers the day we stopped things between us. Of course, I haven’tmovedon.”
The two of us started at each other for a few moments before Avery changed thesubject.
“Are you sure abouttonight?”
I took a deep breath. No, I wasn’t sure, but it was too late to back out. I nodded. “I just need to decide on what to wear. If you get your big butt off my bed, you can help medecide.”
Avery hopped up and looked down at the bed. “Wait,isn’tthat–”
“Yes,” I interrupted. “It looks better on meanyway.”
She smiled. "Then do the skirt. You can wear jeansanyday."
I put my jeans away while Avery sat back down on my bed. “Wait, is that what I think it is,” she asked, looking at the case in the corner ofmyroom.
I nodded again, my smileforced.
“Then we need to start getting you ready. I’ll start on your hair, and then let you get to work on yourmakeup."
Within no time we were dressed up and readytogo.
Before I realized it,Avery and I were pulling up to TheImperial.
Chasing Sunsets was off in California doing who knew what with their new label. That meant Rainier and the Go-Aways were headlining that evening. I thought fewer people might show up considering their golden boys weren’t in town, but the college night crowd was as big as it was the last time I’d watchedRainierplay.
Maybebigger?
