Page 24 of The Hearts We've Broken

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Your girl coming to Houston with us?

Dunno yet

Flynn

She break up with you already? Damn. That was quick

Lawsy

We probably scared her off at the dinner

Ellison’s Husband

Oops.

Ellison

I thought my questions were valid

Haydie

You guys are kinda scary when you get into interrogation mode

Thanks Haydie. Glad you’ve got my back

Haydie

I was more talking about Juniper, but sure

I sent back the emoji that had lines for the eyes and mouth then opened my text thread with Juniper.

I needed to convince her to come on the road with us. It was a big ask, but since it was crucial to the believability portion of our agreement, I was certain it fell under the rules.

Peach I really need this favor

Peach

I don’t know if I can. I have a job.

Let me handle that

Please. We can end things after Houston. Promise

Peach

But you’ll still do my thing this summer, right?

Of course. I’m not gonna bail on you Peachy

Can I take you to work? We can go talk to Rudy together

Peach

Sure

I rehearsed a speech in my head the entire drive to Juniper’s house, brainstorming ideas of how I was going to convince old man Rudy to let her take a month or two off work to come be a roadie.

Yeah, the more I thought about it, the less I was convinced he’d let her take that much time off. But it didn’t hurt to ask.

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