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Seaside Pictures Chapter 78
ZaneI should let her go.It was my new mantra, the damned sentence kept going on repeat over and over in my head until finally I just tuned it out and watched as she made a little marshmallow tower on my hospital tray."It's going to fall.""Shhh!" She placed a marshmallow on the top of the pyramid and pulled back just as it took a tumble sending the thing crashing down. "Ugh.""My turn." I rubbed my hands together. "You forget," I licked one side of the marshmallow. "It's about the lick."Her face turned bright red."I'd love to know where that little mind of yours went right now."She turned redder."That good huh?" I whispered, wishing like hell we weren't waiting for the stupid results from the surgeon to see if we were moving forward or just waiting for my little bomb to go off. I would have loved nothing more than to lock the door, pull the curtain, and devour those red lips."I can be quiet.""Hell..." I wiped down my face with my hand. "Are you seriously trying to
Seaside Pictures Chapter 79
ZaneAn hour later, we had a rented stretch limo.With two SUV's following.Alec, Demetri, and their wives plus the baby in one, and Jay's crew in the other.Dani and Lincoln decided to ride with Jay, but I knew they were probably regretting it by now. Jay drove like a maniac and still managed to forget to drive on the right side of the road. Often. It was his thing, well that and threatening Lincoln, who was still sleeping with his wife Pricilla's sister, Dani.Fallon read all of the instructions out loud while I tried to get her to underage drink so she wouldn't stress out.She said no to wine, champagne, beer - everything.If you can't have it - I don't want it.That was Fallon though.She even handed me her chapstick for safekeeping. Ugh, I was so far gone if chapstick did it for me like a freaking promise ring or something.Her parents weren't thrilled that she was traveling with me to Portland. Then again, all she did was explain the situation. They were completely si
Seaside Pictures Chapter 80
Fallon"I refuse to be the one who ruins his hair. Isn't it insured for like ten million dollars?" Alec wondered aloud while Demetri silenced everyone with a loud hush.After arguing for a few minutes, Demetri decided he was the most qualified to shave part of Zane's head; he referenced one time when he'd cut Alec's hair in his sleep and said it was practically the same thing, only without scissors.Every time he got close to Zane, he backed up and tried a different angle."Just do it!" Zane clenched his teeth while Demetri paled."I'll do it!" My dad offered."No!" Everyone said in unison while he shrugged, his only experience was skinning animals, I highly doubted that Zane wanted my dad's hands anywhere near his person.Demetri took a deep breath and then muttered a curse. "I can't. His hair's too silky.""Come again?" Lyss, Demetri's wife, rolled her eyes. "Did you just call his hair silky?""Oh please, like you haven't been thinking that this whole damn time!" Demetri f
Seaside Pictures Chapter 81
ZaneA headache that felt a hell of a lot like someone had run me over with a semi-truck set up camp near my temple just above my ear. The pounding was so intense I wanted to take a hammer to my head just so it would end."Hey there, sleepy head!" The woman hovering above me winked as my blurry vision focused in on her. "The surgery went fantastic, no hiccups, though we aren't sure of any side effects until we keep you for the next week, alright?""Alright." I answered."Good!" She blinked or winked. "Your speech sounds good, why don't you tell me your name and what you do?""Zane Andrews," I frowned. "And I'm..." My brain tugged at the information like I was in a fog. "Amazing?"She burst out laughing. "Try again.""I sing." My lips moved ahead before the memory could pull. "Saint." Memories of concerts assaulted me, arriving in Seaside. "Girls throw their bras in my face, and I sign boobs for a living - I'm recording my album." Details were still fuzzy, but they were there,
Seaside Pictures Chapter 82
ZaneWith shaking fingers, I folded the note up and greedily searched around for my phone. My stuff was in the corner, neatly folded, my phone had to be there."Come on Zane, you can do this, just a few steps." My legs slid over the side of the bed while nausea tossed my stomach in circles.Five feet.I could go five feet. Right?I pushed up onto two very wobbly legs. My body felt so weak it was ridiculous. Two steps felt like a freaking marathon, and I wasn't even all the way there yet.Three steps and sweat was pooling in the palms of my hands.Almost there.Two more steps and I leaned against the chair ruffling through my clothes until my hand came into contact with a cold object.Another note was attached to the phone.Good job you bad ass, you took your first steps! No, but seriously, I'm glad you made it. The other side effect is learning how to walk again. Your headphones are in the back left pocket of your jeans. The tracks from the last few recording sessions are
Seaside Pictures Chapter 83
FallonI spent a week by his side in the hospital. We played poker with marshmallows as our cash, and he wrote music - beautiful music about second chances and falling in love twice.His album was finished. Complete.Will stopped by a few times but seemed stressed every single time he was in the room. His phone never stopped ringing, and his eyes had dark circles beneath them.The last time I saw him, Lincoln was huddled with him in the corner apologizing about his sister, I wasn't sure what that meant, but when I brought it up later to Demetri, he cursed for a good five minutes before briefly explaining that Lincoln's sister Angelica was Satan in female form.Lincoln didn't agree, but he didn't deny it either.Slowly, Zane started gaining more and more of his memory back, but only pieces and most of them were only tiny pieces of me.I think the low point was when he remembered my dad's name was Bill and my mom was Stella and then proceeded to ask my dad about hunting.He rem
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FallonMy mom and dad weren't really sure what to do, and since I'd always been a relatively happy kid as long as I didn't have a ton of homework and didn't have to eat my mom's burned food - we were all in foreign territory.They ordered Chinese takeout.We ate at the table as we always did.Only this time, Zane wasn't in his spot.The spot he'd occupied for the past few weeks, teasing me that even muses need to eat, but not my mom's food.My parents showed him love because they knew I loved him. But I think they would have fallen in love with him if they would have had a chance to spend more than a handful of dinners with him.He and dad would have talked about guns and actually taken that hunting trip that Zane swore up and down he was still going to do even if he came back with holes through his skin.I wiped at a few fallen tears.He made my family feel like his friends too. He engaged in conversation because he was genuinely interested in others' lives.And he genuine
Seaside Pictures Chapter 85
ZaneI was leaving in two days.I had two days left at Seaside.I didn't want to leave - but what choice did I have? Everyone here had a life, and now that I was no longer running away from mine, it was stupid to stay.Right?The guys understood.But they weren't happy about it.I'd completely forgotten that I had a hotel room in the Seaside Resort until Will called to remind me to go grab all of my shit before they sold it on eBay.I sent another text to Fallon as I made my way over to the resort.Still nothing.I missed her.It hurt.But the connection I knew I should have with her - wasn't there, unless I was kissing her, talking to her. And she'd shut down. The person she was before surgery no longer existed because the person I'd been to her... was gone.I didn't know how to get us back.I wanted to try, but I was afraid she was right, afraid she'd resent me if we never got back to the place we needed to be.Was that what I was doing? Leaving because I was afraid?
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