My Stepbrother Is a Demon novel · Chapter 27 of 32
Chapter 27: Booed Off
Zane looked down at the journal.
Then up at the dark, where it had come from.
"Hey," he said, and laughed, and nobody laughed with him.
His microphone had rolled to the edge of the candles.
I picked it up.
That morning I'd put a plastic sleeve in the chest pocket of the borrowed work shirt and buttoned it shut.
I unbuttoned it now.
I held the cream-colored page up into the spotlight.
The big screens over the stage caught it and threw it forty feet high.
A line.
An X.
A name in round handwriting with circles over the i's.
A tiny brown dot.
"Hi," I said. "I'm Ramona Beale. I'm the one who signed this."
My voice came back at me from every corner of the building.
"I was sixteen. It was his first sold-out show, at the arena in Hartford. I had on a tour shirt that came to my knees."
The fog moved slowly over the seats.
Eighteen thousand people with things on their necks listened.
"He told me it was a crowd release. The pen pricked my thumb, and he laughed and said, cheap pens."
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