Page 12 of Love is a Lyric
Piper wiped her eyes. “I’m fine. Just dealing with Quinn today.”
Julia sighed. She loved Quinn as much as she loved Piper, but they all knew what Quinn could be like. “Don’t let her beat you down. Do you hear me? Just because people scream her name does not mean she is more important than you.”
“I know. I do… it’s just… never mind. I don’t know what I’m trying to say. I think I’m just tired from the tour.”
Julia let the matter drop, but Piper knew it wouldn’t be for long. “Are you going to convince that boy of mine to come home?”
“I’m trying. The band has a lot of work to do before they can get into the recording studio again.”
“Mmhmm… the band has work.” Julia gave her a look that said she knew everything Piper hadn’t told anyone. That the words Quinn sang weren’t Quinn’s words at all.
Piper didn’t have to respond because Jonathan Evans appeared on the screen behind his wife. “Hey, Piper! How’s it hangin’, girl?”
Piper laughed at his attempt to be cool. “I miss you guys.” She hadn’t been home to Columbus in almost a year.
“We miss you more than you know.” Julia winked.
“We love you, Piper.” Jonathan smiled. “You keep my son in line, yeah?”
“I’ll try.” She laughed. It had always amazed her how quickly the Evans family could turn her mood around. They were the one bright spot in her life during the years after the accident. While Quinn and Ben went off to college and then on their first tour, Piper became part of a family with Julia, Jonathan, and Chase. They held her together when her entire world fell apart.
“Bye, kiddo.”
She smiled at the term. “Bye.”
As she hung up, she laid back on the bed to stare at the ceiling, wishing she was back in Columbus instead of in some vacation house in a town that wasn’t home.
“Was that my parents?”
She looked up to find Ben leaning in the doorway and offered him a smile. “They said hi.”
He laughed. “No, they didn’t. They called to talk to you, not me. I think they like you more than me.”
Her smile widened. “Probably. But that’s because I actually keep in touch with them when I’m not there.”
“I keep in touch.”
She lifted a brow.
He pushed out a breath. “Okay, fine. I’m terrible at calling people.”
“Try to be better.”
His face sobered. “So…” His voice hitched, and he looked like he wanted to say more but held the words back.
She scooted to the end of her bed. “Meeting go well?”
“Meeting? Oh, yeah. It was fine.”
There was something he wasn’t telling her, but he didn’t owe her his secrets. “You should go see Quinn. She’s kind of in a mood because of you.”
They shared a look, both knowing Quinn was usually in a mood. Piper never understood what someone as laid back as Ben saw in her sister. Quinn was more suited for a playboy like Conner, not the more normal Ben. Well, as normal as a rockstar could be.
He pushed his glasses into his hair and rubbed his eyes.
“You should also try to get some rest.” She leaned sideways to grab her notebook. The tour was hard on all of them, and now they could relax… well, everyone except Piper.
He eyed the notebook he knew all too well. It kept her organized, controlled her life. The band joked about it sometimes, not realizing they were the reason she had to schedule everything down to the minute. She was Quinn’s assistant, but in reality, she worked for all of them.
