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“What do you mean? Did you not hear how huge of a problem she is for me? Are you… How can I have her stay?” What is happening right now?
“Well, yeah, but now it’s different, isn’t it?” Miki tucks his hair behind his ear.
“Like how?” I scrunch my eyebrows.
“Well, with everything that’s happened… And plus, I mean she’s here with Spencer’s outreach to underprivileged youth problem, did you know that?” Jude says. I did not know that. Spencer hired her? Underprivileged? “Sounds like she’s been having a really hard life.”
They exchange glances, their eyes shifting.
Oh man. They are full of pity all right, but not for me. They are pityingher. Are they on her side now? This can’t be happening. This nightmare keeps getting worse and worse.
“Spencer started this charity thing last year, right?” Jude says.
I nod, I’ve heard of it.
“So there’s this group of ‘troubled teens’ he gives jobs to, because nobody else will. Apparently, he vets them personally himself. His boat’s staff has hired five such teens. Most of them want to get into colleges or get scholarships abroad, and he’s created a program to help them afford it. He hates the word ‘charity’, and so do most teens, to be honest, so he decided to make them work for it. So after fulfilling their contracts, taking whatever jobs he finds them, they all get personal recommendations from Weston freaking Spencer on their college applications. This poet girl is one of them. She wants to get into Harvard but her family is super poor.”
“Super poor? How was she at my concert then?”
“She… ah, I thought you knew. She was gifted a ticket.”
“She what?”
I’m shaking my head. I should have known Spence would be behind this.
Weston freaking Spencer, man. Changing the world one teen at a time. Sometimes it feels that he’s the only one of us who is actually worth all of his success and money, because he’s actually doing so much good with it. I have so much respect for that dude. And so much hate right now.
“It’s been in the news, his outreach program,” Jude explains softly, “but you don’t watch the news, so I thought you might not know.”
“I’m not completely out of the loop. I knew about his outreach company.”
“Then you see how she can’t be fired just yet?” Jude is talking so intensely about this—suddenly I realize what’s happened. He’s talked to Skye.
He came here to talk me into it, not talk me down from the ledge.
I’m doing this, I’m working with her. Once again, I have no choice.
I close my eyes.It can’t be her. It can’t.
“Fine,” I say through gritted teeth. “She’ll stay until I write one song. One. Which I might do right now. I’ll call itKilling Jude.”
“Haven’t you already written that one?” Jude chuckles. I don’t.
“Hey, how about writing aKilling Mikione? I’m feeling left out here,” Miki says, but I’m in no mood.
“And then she’s out of here,” I say. I need to make that clear. He needs to take that back to Skye in the little conspiracy they have going on.
But Jude lifts his hands in the air. “Talk to the man with the boat. It’s up to him.”
‘The man with the boat.’Spencer. Dammit.
The Elliot sisters chat room
Eden: So. My new job. Rocky start to say the least.
Manuela: Can you tell us who the famous singer is?
Eden: I’ve signed a non-disclosure.
