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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
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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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ZaneMy world of grays and fuzzy black turned into full color the minute I walked into that room. I had no idea why.Maybe because that room signified a moment in my life when I finally let go and allowed someone else to help.My moment wasn't just giving up my virginity to Fallon - it was about allowing her in.That room was the room I had bled all over. I'd cut my soul into pieces in that room, and she had managed not to step on the ones that were still hurting. Fallon helped heal me without even realizing that was what she was doing.That room represented everything I'd always wanted to have with another human being - but been too afraid to hope for.I collapsed against her and then rolled off.Her chest rose and fell with effort, and then her hand reached out for mine, fingers locked together, I closed my eyes as tears threatened to pour down my face."I'm sorry," I whispered."You were just lost... for a while.""It was a horrible feeling," I admitted, leaning up on my
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FallonEventually, I would get over the fear that it wasn't real - I was probably driving Zane completely insane.I kept staring at him.Wanting to pinch myself.I felt so giddy I almost skipped into the resort office. Instead, I ran, tossed my keys onto the table, and left.My boss yelled.I didn't care.Zane was waiting for me outside the resort. The moon shone over the clear water; the storm had passed through.I grabbed his hand and stared up at the stars. "It was a good night.""The best," he whispered, wrapping an arm around me.While I'd been busy quitting my job, he had been busy texting everyone about a late night bonfire in celebration of getting most of his short-term memory back.He even invited my parents.I was already bracing myself for the crying from my mom and the celebratory slaps on the back from dad."Wait!" Zane stopped and then winked. "As much as I'd love to go down to that beach with you, we have a problem."I frowned while my stomach dropped. "
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WillHe was back. Thank God.His memory. His snarky weird-ass attitude and love for all things sugary and sticky.At least that problem had solved itself.I twirled the stick between my hands over the fire. I was exhausted.I love my job.I love my job.I love my job.I freaking hated my job.I was thirty, and I wanted to retire.I was an agent, partially because I was good at it, partially because when my boy band broke up, I didn't really have a choice. I needed a purpose, and it was easy to go into the business side of things.I had an ear for talent.I loved managing musicians.I loathed actors.I wanted to strangle them with my bare hands, give them a little shake, then take them for a long drowning swim in the ocean."You look like hell." Lincoln sat down next to me and sighed. "And you're burning your marshmallow."Zane shot me an evil stare from across the fire, I held up my hands in surrender. "I wasn't paying attention.""She coming?" Linc whispered."Hell
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BOOK THREE: STEALWillZane was back. Thank God.His memory. His snarky weird-ass attitude and love for all things sugary and sticky.At least that problem had solved itself.And now I was back in Seaside, where Hollywood single rockstars and actors go to die-also known as the place where every single one of my clients end up in love, married, or with kids.My gut twisted.I twirled the stick between my hands over the fire. I was exhausted.I love my job.I love my job.I love my job.I freaking hated my job.I was thirty, and I wanted to retire.I was an agent, partially because I was good at it, partially because when my boy band broke up, I didn't really have a choice. I needed a purpose, and it was easy to go into the business side of things.I had an ear for talent.I loved managing musicians.I loathed actors.I wanted to strangle them with my bare hands, give them a little shake, then take them for a long drowning swim in the ocean."You look like hell." Linc
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