Page 176 of Paint the Town, Dove
Rise from the ashes.
“What’s next?” I whispered in a silent promise. “We paint the town red.”
New York Post
BREAKING NEWS
Ryden Spectre Signs With Arc & Shield Records
And so the story begins.
Set Number 03
“Paint the Town, Dove”
“We’re fighting for freedom, come on, bring me home!”
-Ryden Spectre
Chapter Forty-Nine
Scarlett
One Month Later
Ispent the last thirty days bleeding onto the pages of my old notebook.
Not literally, of course. But it felt that way.
Nothing could tear me away from the feeling of pouring my heart and soul into song.
I wasn’t a singer, no –
I was a composer.
Tav gave up the idea of Ryden working with Paisley, especially after my refusal to answer any of Kyle Binx’s emails.Not worth my time, I’d said. OrRyden’s.
Then it’s not a duet, Tav fought back. Ryden merely smiled.It’s more of a duet than you’ll ever know.
Did it serve as an issue for the higher ups? Maybe. But Ryden’s spring opener was booked at Madison Square Garden and there was no way the label would drop him – he was too valuable of a client, too important – no matter what the tabloids thought.
No one could paint Ryden red.
Only me.
I pulled my notebook from the bath table, leaned into the steaming water and bit on the pen cap.
So many words from little me, flashes of memories and moments running across these pages in bold lettering – all incoherent, illegible.
What did it feel like to be cared for?
I wasn’t so cold anymore.
The cold was back.
It made someone smile.
Glimpses of supressed memories and emotion stamped these old pages. Ryden told me that’s how he wrote his songs – throughbracketsof feeling, pockets of pain that he noted down for future use.What is the use of pain if it’s not meant to be shared?
