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PROLOGUE
Let Her Go
Xander, 18 Years Old
A black Jetta with heavily tinted erves around the corner and colot Therolls down and the thu the song immediately
Logan Taylor pokes his head out to meet my stare “Hey, dude, where you been?”
“Hey, man Good to see you I’ve been here and there You?”
He hangs his ar with you every day”
“I know Talk to your aunt”
“Do I look suicidal?” he says, then blows the hair out of his eyes
I just shaketo discuss Mrs Taylor, I check out the curves he’s sitting in “New car?” I ask as my eyes sweep the sleek, shiny body in front of me
He shakes his head “I wish It’s my dad’s, and anyway you know I’d never pick a yuppie-mobile if I had my choice I’d much rather have a car like yours any day, but no chance of that”
I laugh I do loveto randparents and he kept it all these years When I was little I always ade My dad never drove it anyave me his shiny red Corvette for my own sixteenth birthday, I couldn’t have been more excited
“You here to see my cousin?”
“You know it,” I say with a grin
“She’ll be glad to see you,out on auditions almost every day”
I roll et her out of this town I take a deep breath before responding “She told o Thanks for looking out for irl”
“Hey, she’s fa for my cousinYou know that Listen, I have to jet, but call ether,” he says, then speeds off
I shuffle onith a slight set to see her I take the short walk over to our s just as I arrive The doors open and she walks le fro off the star-shaped sapphire stones that are the exact sa the way she elooks, personality, brains, and a rocking body There’s a mysterious allure about her that I can never explain—she has an innocence that I’d do anything to protect She’s confident yet shy, strong but not, a rebel and a confor love her
A huge s near the basketball court and oes crazy Her s, platinum blond hair blows in the wind She lifts her hand to her mouth and forms a perfect O as she blows aze quickly drifts to her chest and then down to her narrow hips She’s wearing a white button-down that’s a tad too tight and a navy skirt that’s a little too short Don’t get lance That’s how ht of all the other guys seeing what’s mine, especially when I’m not around to put them in their place
Pulling offit on the bench behind me, I slidefor et closer I keepall the other students around ive me crooked looks, but that’s as far as they take it any for herAt first they didn’t like hts they learned to leave et the shit kicked out of them Just because I dress like a preppy ass doesn’t mean I am one
Today I skipped out of school early—leaving my brother at the pristine private school we attend so I could see net school in the heart of LA She lives nearby in a rent-controlled aparter sisters Their father took off on the if not resentful about it In fact, her spiteful attitude is sometiether She says she got a new job with later hours, so now Ivy has to go hoer allowed over when she’s not there Coincidental? I doubt it I can see through her—she views olden ticket
There’s no one to bla ainstour rehearsal schedule She hter was a born actress and she should be spending her ti for auditions, not playing in a band She even went so far as to ask ree, Xander, that with Ivy’s looks she should be an actress, not a singer?”
ROLOGUE
Let Her Go
Xander, 18 Years Old
A black Jetta with heavily tinted erves around the corner and colot Therolls down and the thu the song immediately
Logan Taylor pokes his head out to meet my stare “Hey, dude, where you been?”
“Hey, man Good to see you I’ve been here and there You?”
He hangs his ar with you every day”
“I know Talk to your aunt”
“Do I look suicidal?” he says, then blows the hair out of his eyes
I just shaketo discuss Mrs Taylor, I check out the curves he’s sitting in “New car?” I ask as my eyes sweep the sleek, shiny body in front of me
He shakes his head “I wish It’s my dad’s, and anyway you know I’d never pick a yuppie-mobile if I had my choice I’d much rather have a car like yours any day, but no chance of that”
I laugh I do loveto randparents and he kept it all these years When I was little I always ade My dad never drove it anyave me his shiny red Corvette for my own sixteenth birthday, I couldn’t have been more excited