Behind the Bars, the first beautiful and emotional standalone in the all-new Music Street Series from Brittainy C. Cherry is available NOW!
When I first met Jasmine
Greene, she came in as raindrops.
I was the awkward musician,
and she was the high school queen.
The only things we had in
common were our music and our loneliness.
Something in her eyes told me
her smile wasn’t always the truth.
Something in her voice gave me
a hope I always wished to find.
And in a flash, she was gone.
Years later, she was standing in
front of me on a street in New Orleans.
She was different, but so was I.
Life made us colder. Harder. Isolated.
Caged.
Even though we were different,
the broken pieces of me recognized the sadness in her.
Now she was back, and I
wouldn’t make the mistake of letting her go again.
When I first met Jasmine
Greene, she came in as raindrops.
When we met again, she was
the darkest storm.
Excerpt:
By the way, what happened to Todd’s nose?” I asked.
“I broke it,” Elliott said matter-of-factly.
“What? How? Why?”
He shrugged before turning to look out the window. “He called
you a bad name.”
“What was it?”
“It doesn’t matter.”
“Eli,” I started.
He turned my way and locked his hazel eyes with my browns.
“Jazz…” He shook his head. “It wasn’t true.”
I swallowed hard, a big part of me certain Todd’s words held
some form of truth.
Elliott saw it in me—my fear. He kept shaking his head and
whispered, “I don’t feel sorry for you. Sometimes you look at me like you think I feel sorry for
you, and I want you to know I don’t. I think you’re perfect the way you are.”
I quietly laughed at him repeating the words I’d told him
earlier. A few tears rolled down my cheeks. “I’m a little messed up.”
“I know.” He nodded. “That’s why I like you.”
He went back to staring out the window, and I kept staring at
him.
And there it was.
So small, so tiny, so real.
Love.
It wasn’t love, but it was the beginning of it.
I knew I was young, and I knew it was stupid, but in that
moment, I began to fall in love with the quiet boy who quietly cared for me. The boy who was
scared and still strong. The boy who stood up for me when he was surrounded by reasons not
to do such a thing. I hadn’t known much about love. I hadn’t known how it looked, felt, or
tasted. I hadn’t known how it moved, how it flowed, but I knew my heart was tight and
currently skipping a few beats. I understood the goose bumps covering my arms. I knew this
stuttering boy who was sometimes so scared was someone worth loving. He was worth being
the first one I gave my heart to.
I knew Elliott Adams was love.
And I was falling into him so fast.
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