FanGirl Squeal (RockStars of Romance Book 1) by Jackie Chanel, Madison Taylor Read Free Book Online Page B

there was a stunned silence before the crowd broke out in
thunderous round of applause and began chanting Cash’s name. He opened his eyes
slowly and took a deep breath. He walked over to Michaela and gave her a hug.
    “You got my number, right?” he asked in her ear.
    “My dad put it in his phone.”
    “You call me when you get back to Phoenix, okay?”
    “So you can play at my funeral?”
    Cash’s heart dropped to his stomach. He knelt down so he and
Michaela were face to face.
    “Don’t say that. You’re not going to have a funeral, okay?
We’re gonna get you some better doctors and you’re going to beat this, okay?”
    Michaela nodded and threw her arms around his neck. He
kissed her forehead and waited while security took her back to her parents. As
soon as he walked off stage, he leaned against a concrete pillar and let the
tears he’d been holding back flow. Jennifer quickly wrapped her son in her arms
and shielded his tears from everyone backstage.
    “It’s okay, baby,” she said softly while she stroked his
hair. “It’s going to be okay.”
    Cash was heartbroken. The culmination of Michaela’s
diagnosis and the end of his tour was the breaking point. He thought he was
going to break down while he was playing but he held it together.
    His tour was over. The wedding that was supposed to happen
in six months was not going to happen now. And Cash didn’t write well when he had
so much weighing on his heart so who knew when he’d write another album. No
album meant no tour. And Cash had a hard time finding productive things to do
when he wasn’t on stage or in a relationship.
    His mother patted Cash’s back. “Come on, Cash. We have to
get out of here,” she regretfully said. “I have to get you on that plane.”
    As he wiped his face with a towel and placed his Sox cap
back on his head, Cash hated that she had slipped into manager mode when he
obviously needed his mother to just be his mom. Couldn’t she see that?
     

Chapter 5: FanGirls Unite!
    “Savannah!
    Nicole’s hand on my shoulder shook me out of my trance. I
was sitting at my desk, heading resting in the palm of my hand, staring at my
laptop.
    “Huh?”
    “Troy’s on the phone. He wants to know if you’re still
coming by the shop to get your hair done.”
    I fingered my tangle of curls and exhaled loudly. Troy had
been trying to snap me out of my Cash Myers post-tour funk for a week and I am just
not interested in hearing him go on and on and on while I was held captive in
his salon chair.
    “No, I’ll get it done some other time. I can’t with Troy
right now.”
    “Oh okay. Well, it’s after five. Do you mind if I split? I
have a night class this semester.”
    “Girl, you don’t have to ask about that. Go to class. I’m
fine.”
    Nicole peered over my shoulder at my computer screen. I had
about fifteen Chrome tabs open to articles about Cash and Victoria as well as
my desktop manager for my website. FanGirlSqueal.com has evolved into something
that I wasn’t even prepared for. It started out as just a little blog on the
Internet. Now it’s grown into an online entertainment magazine with over three
million subscribers. My site brings in enough advertising dollars to pay my
bills. Sometimes, I can’t believe.
    I don’t update the site every day like I used to. Instead,
Nicole and I scrounge the Internet for entertainment news, new movie releases,
music releases, and anything that’s related to pop culture. Then we, well, I
write the content and we update the site weekly. We have artists features,
interviews, and every week I write an editorial piece of my choosing.
    “Are you going to write up something about Cash and Victoria
breaking up? That’s new for you.”
    “No, I don’t know what happened with them so I’m not going
to speculate on my site. From what I can see, aside from Cash’s tweet, no one
knows what happened. It’s all rumor.”
    “Well, he did tweet that he’s single now,” Nicole