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“You didnotjust say that. We are about makingart, not money.”
“That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard in my life…”
I busted out laughing and hung up on them, then laughed again as I wondered how long it would take them to notice.
On Wednesdays, Theo had class until ten o’clock his time, midnight mine. Six flipping hours to kill. I could call the Olsens back and go out anyway. No, I’d be too distracted. I’d been distracted for three days, turning over and over again what happened with Theo. Our dance. Our kiss. Three days of radio silence, no calls, no texts, and my feelings were nowhere near sorted out.
Except I miss him. And I want to make him laugh again. And make him happy.
I heated up some leftover ravioli Yvonne made for me and ate it on the couch while watchingDirty Dancing.Which was an idiotic choice. Just watching the dancers grind together in the opening montage brought Theo’s and my dance roaring back.
At midnight, I turned off all the lights, climbed into bed, and called him.
“Hey, Kacey,” he said.
I leaned back against the pillows with a sigh. I loved his deep voice, and how it settled into my head, sank down to my chest, made me feel warm all over.
“Hi. I wanted to talk about your graduation on Saturday.”
A pause. “Are you still coming?”
“Of course I am. But I can only stay until Sunday. Because…”
“Because?”
“Take a guess.”
“Tell me or I’ll kill you.”
“I have meeting with the execs from Sony Music on Monday.”
“Are youkiddingme?”
“They want to sign me. Can you believe that?”
“Hell yeah,” he said, his voice growing louder. “Damn, Kace, this is incredible.”
“Turns out Grant was right. The video was kind of big.”
“Kind of? Last I checked, it kind of had close to a million views.”
“You’ve been checking?”
“Well.” A beat of silence. “About a hundred of those views might be mine.”
My skin flushed pink as I envisioned him watching the video over and over.
I think you’re so fucking beautiful…
“Teddy, after the graduation ceremony…I think we should talk.”
“Okay,” he said slowly.
“I’ve wanted to these last couple of days,” I said. “Almost started to, but I know you had a lot of work to finish up. And I think it’s better if we talk in person.”
“Whatever you want, Kace.”
“Do you want to talk about what happened?”
