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Kissing Me Harder, Stepbrother novel · Chapter 20 of 24

Chapter 20: The Bedsheet

I read it three times.

Then I put the phone face down on Lennon's floor and lay back on his chest.

"What?" he mumbled into my hair.

"We're out. Officially. With gold letters."

He was quiet for a second.

Then he reached up and pulled the card that said EP 1 off the wall above us.

He held it over my face.

"Still need a sheet?" he said.

We'd sent our cut to the app on the twenty-seventh anyway, all thirty-eight episodes, with the sound guy's mix.

Nobody had written back.

On the thirtieth, at seven in the evening, we carried everything down the steps to the sand under the Santa Monica Pier.

Above us, on the pier deck, the Fall Slate had a white tent, a red carpet, and a man with a clipboard turning people away.

Below it, we had Mom's king-size bedsheet.

The riggers hung it between two pilings with climbing rope and forty clothespins.

It moved a little in the wind.

Captain set his generator down in the sand and pulled the cord.

The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Kissing Me Harder, Stepbrother are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.

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