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Me:Have Harrison put a bid in for me, fifteen million dollars.
Jamie:HA! Yea…no…
“So,” Bennett sighed next to me, crumpling his taco wrappers, “tell me about this three-week adventure. Tell me about Jamie.”
I scoffed, “Nowyou want to know more? After rushing us to the hotel and then a walk past the label, and the taco truck . . . can’t we just enjoy the view?” I asked, motioning towards the sea.
“I would love to, except my best friend is trying too hard to pretend to want to be here.” Bennett slouched, his elbows resting on his knees. “You don’t want to be here.”
“I do,” I admitted, “you know I do. This is a dream. What we’ve worked for, what we’ve wanted for a long time so, yeah . . . I want to be here,”
“Except . . .” he urged.
“I wish Jamie was here too. Or I wish I was there with her during her auction.”
“Auction?”
“Her painting, the sunflowers? It’s up at the festival’s auction. It has two ribbons next to it and I’m not there to see how much it goes for. Instead, I’m here. Sitting in the heat, on the sand, waiting to be told we’re either going to be the next big hit for Pacific Sounds,or if they’d rather skip on us.” I sighed, my eyes focused on the horizon. “So, yeah, I’d rather be in Park City.”
Bennett was silent for a moment, his long sigh filling the void. Chase had his feet stuck in the water, Jameson was perched on a rock, looking stoic as always. Bennett’s eyebrows were furrowed, his jaw clenching over and over.
“I’m sorry, man,” I added softly. “I’ll be morepresenttomorrow, I promise.”
He shook his head. “You don’t need to promise anything. I know when you get in that booth and have that guitar in your hands you’ll come to life, you always do. I just didn’t think I’d ever see the day when you were more in love with a girl than the music.”
I chuckled. “Me either, to be honest. But then she had to come waltzing in the Piano Bar.”
“You love her?” Bennett said quickly, not even skipping a beat.
I looked over at him “I really . . . really do.”
“I think we need to sing that song, the one about her, for the label.”
“Really?” I wasn’t expecting that. To me, that song belonged to Jamie, and I knew it wasn’t up to Bennett’s standards. We had practiced it and made it sound fantastic for the show, but did Bennett love it?
“It was a hit last night, maybe single worthy?”
I pinched my eyebrows at him and gave him a soft smile. There was my answer. He had to have loved it as much as I did. “That’s saying we get a single.”
“We will. They’d be stupid not to sign us. They wouldn’t have sought us out if they didn’t already want to sign us.”
I smirked. “They did findus, didn’t they?”
Bennett nodded and then instantly changed the subject. He motioned towards my phone in my hand. “Have you checked on the auction?”
“I don’t think it's started.” I lifted the screen, and was greeted by a blank screen with no notifications.
“Only one way to find out.”
My heart beat picked up, I opened Jamie’s thread.
Me:Auction time??
Jamie:Auction time, mine’s the third piece. Are you still at the beach?
Me:Sadly.
A FaceTime call came through, joining so Bennett could be a part of it too.
