My Online Crush Swore He Wasn't the Idol, Then His Song Sang My Secrets novel · Chapter 17 of 24

Chapter 17: Home

"Gone where?" I said.

I hadn't meant to ask.

It came out before anything else.

"Nobody knows," Mom said. "They broke up in March. It was all over the TV. He paid his way out of something and then he just stopped being anywhere."

"I didn't ask about him."

"You did, honey. First thing."

I stood in the hallway outside the rehearsal room with my forehead against the cinderblock wall.

"Tell me about the Juniper," I said.

So she told me.

In April a storm had come through and peeled half the roof off the Juniper.

Rain had poured into the house for two days before anybody could get a tarp up.

The painted peach branches over the stage had run down the wall in pink streaks.

They'd cancelled this summer's Orchard Road before it opened.

Brynn never got her Rose.

"The bank lent them money for a new roof," Mom said. "Sixty thousand. It's due September 30. If it's not paid, they take the building."

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