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kacey
July, a Saturday night
I was drunk.
Why else would I have my cell phone in my hand, my thumb hovering
over my parents’ house number in San Diego?
Drunk dialing, I thought. Not just for ex-boyfriends anymore.
I snorted a laugh. It came out more like a sob and echoed around the
stairwell. I sat in the dark, narrow space, knees pulled up, trying to make
myself small. Invisible. On the other side of the cement wall I could hear
the muffled shouts and whistles of three thousand people waiting for Rapid
Confession to take the stage. Our manager, Jimmy Ray, had given us the
ten-minute cue a good twenty minutes ago and my bandmates were
probably looking for me.
I took a sip from my Evian water bottle, three-quarters filled with vodka
—because I’m clever like that—and contemplated my phone. I dared
myself to call. I warned myself not to, just put it away and join the band in
the green room. We’d hit the stage, play for yet another sold-out show. I’d
get hella famous, make some serious money and continue to screw a
different guy every night.
Because, rock and roll.
What a joke. I wasn’t rock and roll. I looked the part, especially tonight
in my miniskirt, thigh-high boots and bustier. My hair—bleached to almost
white—curled around my shoulders in pin-up girl perfection. My lips
painted red and my eyes lined in black. Tattoos decorated my skin, adding
to the impression of a grunge rock chick, but they weren’t a costume. They
were mine.
I looked the part, but I felt like a piece of glass, shattered and scattered
all over. I didn’t know who or what I was anymore, but I glittered prettily in
the spotlight.
I took another sip of vodka and nearly dropped my phone. I fumbled to
catch it and when I lifted it up, I saw I had hit that big green call button.
“Shit…”
Slowly, I put the phone to my ear. My mother answered on the third
ring.
“Hello, Dawson residence.”
My heart dropped into my stomach. My jaw worked but I couldn’t make
any sound come out.
“Hello?”
“I…”
“Hello, may I help you?”
She’s going to hang up!
“Hey, Mom. It’s me. Kacey.”
“Cassandra.”
I hated that name and hadn’t used it for years, but wrapped around those
three syllables, I heard the relief in my mother’s voice. I heard it.
“Yeah, hi!” I said brightly, too loudly. “How uh… How are you guys?”
“We are fine,” she said. Her voice was hushed now, as if she didn’t want
to be overheard. “Where are you calling from?”
“Las Vegas,” I said. “Because we’re on tour. Me and my band? Rapid
Confession? It’s a sold-out show tonight, our second night in a row.
Actually, most of the shows on our tour have been sold out. It’s pretty great.
We’re hitting the big time.”
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