The chilly November air swept the dry leaves throughout the paved driveway, sending them tumbling alongside. Natalie suppressed a shiver as she stared at Amelia, hardly believing she was standing in entrance of her.

“What are you doing right here?” Natalie requested when Amelia wasn’t saying something. “That is hardly a coincidence. Except you’ve been recording right here.”

Amelia pressed her lips collectively. “I referred to as Frank a number of weeks in the past to see if he knew the place you have been. I didn’t know who else to name. I’ve been looking for you for months. You’re a tough girl to trace down, Natalie.”

Natalie might really feel her jaw clenching as she tried to not get indignant. The rationale she’d by no means owned a house was as a result of she might by no means really feel secure in a single place, at all times fearing that the paparazzi would discover her. Despite the fact that it had been a very long time since which may have really occurred, it didn’t imply that that worry wasn’t nonetheless there, lingering in Natalie’s unconscious.

“I’ve by no means stayed in a single place for too lengthy,” Natalie stated, managing to maintain her voice stage.

A heavy silence fell between them, and it was Amelia who broke it.

“You look nice,” Amelia stated softly.

Natalie simply regarded away. “Why did you wish to discover me?”

“I needed to see you.” Amelia sighed. “You won’t consider me, however I’ve considered you so many instances over time.”

“I do really discover that tough to consider. You broke my coronary heart, Amelia.” Natalie shocked herself with how indifferent she was from this interplay, with how little she cared.

Amelia’s hand was heat on her forearm. “You don’t have any thought how a lot I remorse the way in which I dealt with it.” She searched Natalie’s eyes as she dropped her hand. “Have dinner with me tonight.”

“We’ll in all probability be going late right here.”

“I’m glad you’re getting again into music,” Amelia stated with a touch of a smile.

“No, I’m not. I’m right here for Sienna.”

That silence was again, and Natalie needed to surprise if Amelia thought their relationship was purely skilled. Natalie might nearly see the gears turning.

“Look,” Amelia stated. “The principle purpose I needed to see you is that I’m submitting for a divorce.”

Natalie shouldn’t have cared, however listening to Amelia say these phrases eighteen years too late knocked the wind out of her.

18

Sienna left her bag on the kitchen counter of the rental residence Natalie had discovered earlier than sitting down and placing her ft up on the espresso desk. She was exhausted after getting up a six to prepare and be at Frank’s for 9 o’clock. Then they put in nearly eight hours within the studio. They’d breaks for lunch and a pizza within the afternoon, however it was nonetheless extremely tiring.

However Sienna was extra emotionally drained than the rest. She’d spent the Uber trip again right here realizing that as superb as the previous few weeks had been, neither of them had outlined what they have been doing.

They’d by no means stated that they have been formally courting. It definitely felt like they have been. They spent three or 4 nights collectively each week.

“Amelia desires to have dinner with me tonight,” Natalie stated, hovering on the sting of the dwelling space.

Sienna pursed her lips. “Okay.”

“Do you thoughts if I am going?”

“No. In no way.” Sienna really felt bodily sick on the considered the 2 of them having a candle lit dinner in some fancy restaurant in Nashville, however she couldn’t cease Natalie from going.

“Okay.” Natalie regarded like she needed to say one thing else, however she pointed over her shoulder. “I’ll simply go prepare then.”

Sienna sat frozen on the sofa for a number of seconds, however when she heard the bathe activate, she determined to go and get become her pajamas and at the very least be cozy. She grabbed her black leather-based journal and a pen from her bag on her means again to the lounge.

She sat down and flipped to the web page she’d final written on that morning. She’d jotted down a track thought once they’d stopped for gasoline on the way in which, however studying over the phrases now, they made little sense. She was in all probability nonetheless half asleep when she wrote them.

Sienna tapped her pen towards the web page. She didn’t actually really feel like racking her mind attempting to decipher her personal phrases, however she wanted the distraction. In any other case, she’d simply take into consideration how good Amelia regarded in her designer garments right this moment.

Sienna would begin evaluating herself to a girl that Natalie had as soon as cherished, and there wasn’t even any competitors.

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