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“Something like that.”
I warily followed behind him. What was going on? Why did I feel like I was walking into a carefully laid trap?
“You made it!” Santi’s voice boomed before I even turned the corner.
I furrowed my brow and hurried forward to see the entire band sitting in the sound booth, beaming at me. Campbell had just clapped hands with Santi. Viv’s hair was now a vibrant hot pink, and her nails were crazy long and mint green. I had no idea how she strummed a bass with them. Yorke was the same as always—taciturn and silent. He tipped his head at me.
“What’s going on?”
Campbell grinned back at me. “We talked to Bobby.”
Worry bloomed in me. Bobby Rogers…who didn’t like me and felt like I had too much influence over the band. But then why was the entire band here? Couldn’t they have fired me over the phone or something?
“I see.”
“We don’t think you do,” Viv said, popping her bubblegum.
“We want you to join the band,” Campbell said.
Silence. There was silence in my brain. The words I’d wanted most in the world and convinced myself that I would never hear.
“What?” I managed to get out.
“Yeah, we want you to join,” Santi said, clapping me on the back.
“But…Bobby hates me. I thought he would convince you not to make any big changes. This is a big change.”
“Bobby doesn’t hate you,” Campbell burst out at the same time Viv said, “Are you trying to talk us out of it?”
“Yes, he does,” I said and then quickly, “No, I’m not.”
“It was Bobby’s idea,” Campbell said.
“What?”
“Well, all of our ideas,” Viv said, elbowing Campbell. “We’d been talking about it for a while.”
“Yeah, man,” Santi said. “We’d discussed it while putting the album together.”
“We almost said something in New York,” Viv added.
“But we wanted to make sure we could get the contracts and paperwork sorted,” Campbell said.
My mouth was open. I stared at the four of them. “You’re serious?”
“Yes,” Yorke said.
Which sealed it for me. Yorke’s word was law.
“Unless you’re not interested,” Campbell said with a smirk on his lips.
Shithead. He knew I was interested.
“Of course I’m fucking interested.”
Campbell laughed and pulled me into a rough hug. “That’s what I fucking thought. Welcome to the band.”
Viv threw her arms around the both of us, and then Santi joined in.
“Come on, Yorke,” Santi coaxed.
Yorke heaved a large sigh and then put one arm around the lot of us. As if it greatly suffered him to be involved in all of this.
We laughed and broke apart, giddy with excitement. The future was suddenly spread out before me. I was joining Cosmere. The biggest band in the world. And not as a roadie, playing my keys in the background, but as one of them. How was this my life?
“What do we do from here?” I asked.
“Well, we’re heading back to LA tomorrow to get you to sign the paperwork and shit,” Campbell said. “We can have it emailed to you to look over…have a lawyer look over.”
A lawyer. Right. I needed one of those.
“We can recommend one,” Viv said, seeing my deer-in-headlights stare.
