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Find Her Tessa Bailey 13700K 2023-08-29

Chapter One

Hope Wilder pressed a hand to her stomach in an attempt to still the butterflies

Tonight was the night After a full year of saving her waitressing tips, she’d purchased tickets to see Citizen It was a huge extravagance The s, like rent on the apart on ramen and tap water would be worth it when she heard that first guitar lick Besides, she ell used to going without, wasn’t she? What was another twelveCitizen up close?

They weren’t even inside the arena yet and electrical currents were already racing up and down her arms, so intense she couldn’t stand still

“Easy, Hope,” her older brother, Wyatt, ru around like that, you’ll exhaust yourself by the time the show starts”

“I’m sorry I can’t help it!” Hope covered herin front of the to Citizen since we’ve been living on our own,” she continued, much quieter “Reuardian? You were playing their albus…I don’t know, they just hold goodeverything full circle” She extended her fingers up toward the night sky and wiggled them around “I can feel it”

Wyatt patted Hope on the shoulder with his big paw, before shoving it back in his pocket and going back to observing thecroith his typical quiet suspicion Her brother always humored her when she spouted off hat he called her hippie speak Wyatt was a realist while Hope had always been the dreamer of their two-person fa dreams seemed pointless, she’d never been able to contain her whiic within people

Everyone was capable of ht? When she’d been living in the shiny, disinfected cinderblock walls of the hos were possible And then Wyatt had shown up with the paperwork that sprung her free of that concrete prison That day, as they’d accelerated onto the interstate with Citizen blasting at full volume, the tears had streamed down her face and she swore she’d never doubt the power of keeping the faith again

Nor would she doubt ic

After all, look where she was Mere iven by her favorite band Hearing songs that had gotten Hope through the darkest, scariest moments of her twenty-one years

Sos had kept her alive