Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Jenna Voris
- Language: English
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Music Fiction
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Darren
On the morning of Decklee Cassel’s funeral, I’m in the employee
lounge of Bob’s Gas Station, losing a fight with the coffee machine
for the second time that day.
To be fair, I never stood a chance. Everything at Bob’s is at least a
decade older than me, but the fact that this specific machine has started
spontaneously leaking boiling water whenever I clock in feels a little
personal. Kendall is already behind the register, too busy holding back the
bleary-eyed morning crowd to lend me a hand, so this, overall, is not the
best way to start my morning.
Oh, and Decklee Cassel is dead.
There’s also that.
I slap the sign onto the machine and lug it back into the
open. “Sorry, folks. Energy drinks are third cooler on the left.”
Kendall finally looks up from the register as the crowd dissipates.
“Coffee out again?” he asks. “Weren’t you supposed to fix that?”
I roll my eyes. Kendall is technically shift lead and technically my boss
when Bob’s not around, but he’s barely a year older than me and only
marginally better at operating our ancient cash register, so I don’t like to
think of him as “being in charge.” I’ve known Kendall since the day my
second-grade teacher went into labor and left us with the class next door.
We’ve worked together for the last three years and the idea of him telling
me what to do is still genuinely laughable.
“No, Bob was supposed to fix it,” I say, giving the coffee maker one
more shove for emphasis. “This thing hates me, remember?”
“It doesn’t hate you, it’s just Friday.” Kendall braces his elbows on the
counter. “Right on schedule.”
He has this theory that Bob’s coffee machines know what day it is. He
swears they know what time it is, too, because one of them always seems to
go out right in the middle of the morning rush. Today, at least, it’s summer,
so we don’t have to break the news to the school crowd. Any other day I
might have laughed along with him because this whole thing really is
getting ridiculous, but today is Decklee Cassel’s funeral.
And there’s absolutely nothing funny about that.
In a town this small, every change feels like a kick to the gut—swift and
sudden and aching with a strange sense of inevitability. You feel it in the air
first, and when I came home from work Tuesday to find Mom already
waiting by the door, I knew something big had happened. For a second, my
mind ran wild with every terrible possibility. She was sick again. She lost
her job. They were firing me for some reason.
But then Mom took a deep breath, squeezed my hand, and said, “They
found Decklee Cassel at home this morning, Darren. It was peaceful,
but . . . she’s gone.”
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