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“What kind of online performer were they looking for?” Raz asked.
Now her cheeks burned for an entirely different reason.
“The people who put on the contest meant to invite a performer who goes by Bang Bang Barbie. I shouldn’t have even been there in the first place. They got Bang Bang and Bonbon confused and forgot to tell me about the mistake.”
“Bang Bang Barbie?” Mitch repeated. “That’s a weird name.”
“What does Bang Bang Barbie do?” Char asked, when Rowen gasped, then dropped his phone.
“Holy smokes!” the man exclaimed as he retrieved his cell.
Penny stared at her fiancé. “Are you okay, babe?”
“I googled Bang Bang Barbie, and she’s definitely not teaching children how to read music. That’s for sure.”
Mitch glanced over Rowen’s shoulder. “And she certainly knows her way around a bottle of body glitter.”
“Body glitter?” Libby repeated.
Hello, humiliation, my old friend.
“It was a contest to pick the next up-and-coming adult star.”
“A porn star?” Char blurted as Mitch nodded wide-eyed, next to an equally wide-eyed Rowen and Raz, as the men stared at the screen.
“Yeah,” she replied with a weary sigh, “it was a porno tryout.”
“There’s more, though, isn’t there?” Libby pressed, going all mind-reader. “Something else got under your skin, H. Something else upset you.”
It really sucked balls to have an intuitive bestie some days.
“You guys were right about Vance. I ran into him, and it wasn’t pretty.”
Libby gasped. “H, that had to have been awful.”
“Vance Vibe?” Landon asked, practically spitting out the syllables. “He’s the musician who hurt you?” He looked ready to track down Vance and tear the d-bag from limb to limb.
She parted her lips, unsure of what she was about to say, but Penny beat her to the punch.
“Vance Viberenski, aka Vance Vibe, is the jerk who stole Harper’s music, skipped town, and broke her heart. He’s an absolute creep.”
Libby pressed her hand to her chest. “Accidental porn mix-up and an ex run-in? Harper, you poor thing.”
“Then Carol got towed, and I thought I’d hit rock-bottom. So I lied my way into a gladiator-ballerina-themed wedding at the hotel’s dance club, and that’s when Landon helped me get away from a handsy guy on the dance floor.”
Char shared a look with Libby and Penny. “Landon came to your rescue?”
“It was more like I came to the guy’s rescue,” her heartthrob husband corrected as a heaviness seemed to lift from his demeanor. “Harper was ready to punch his lights out on the dance floor.”
Charlotte chuckled. “That does sound like you, H.”
“And after that, one thing led to another, and…” she trailed off, chancing a look at Landon, only to find him gazing at her.
“And I’d bet an entire drawer full of Post-it notes I know what’s hanging from the chains beneath your shirts,” Penny remarked, looking from her to the heartthrob.
“Let’s see them,” Char nudged.
Landon removed the simple platinum band, and she followed suit. Just touching the rings brought back the beautifully outrageous memories.
