My Online Crush Swore He Wasn't the Idol, Then His Song Sang My Secrets novel · Chapter 21 of 24

Chapter 21: Whose Words

"Why would he sing it?" I said. "He's playing a stationmaster."

Hal smiled at me the way he'd smiled at our sign with the falling S.

"Your ticket page says otherwise, sweetheart."

He took out his phone and held it up for the diner to see.

It was the Juniper's ticket page.

Under the dates, in pink letters, somebody had added a line.

OPENING NIGHT: A SPECIAL SURPRISE FROM JASPER LARKSPUR.

"I didn't write that," I said.

"I know you didn't." Hal put the phone away. "The young lady on your board did. She was kind enough to send it to me herself."

Brynn.

"Seven o'clock tonight," Hal said. "I've asked your board chair for a meeting at the theatre. Open to the public. I think the town should hear what their little play could cost them."

He nodded at Cody.

"Son."

Then he walked out and the bell banged behind him.

By seven the Juniper was fuller than it had been for auditions.

Word had gone around Millbrook in an afternoon.

Two news vans were parked outside, and a row of phones stood up along the back wall.

The sky over Main Street had turned the color of a bruise.

The air was thick and wouldn't move.

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