Page 95 of My Song for You
Eventually Brian successfully herded us into the vehicle, with threats that we would miss our flight home if we didn’t get our asses in gear. With my heart pounding in my chest, I sent Hailey a text:Did she see it?
Sorry. I don’t know. She didn’t come over. She said she needed to get away for a few days and dropped Logan off at your parents’ house.
Shit. I dropped my head back against the limo seat. Now what?
“Sorry, man,” Nolan said a moment later. Hailey must’ve told him what had happened. “I thought for sure your plan would work.”
“Me too.”
“Don’t give up yet. Hailey’s positive Callie loves you, and I believe it too. Any idiot can see that she does.”
I shrugged. “Doesn’t matter if she has no idea how I feel about her.”
“Do you know where she might’ve gone?”
“Not a clue.” There was one way to find out.Thinking about you,I typed.How are you?
Before I began demanding to know where she went, I wanted to at least know if she was talking to me. While I waited for her to respond, I phoned Mom.
She picked up on the second ring. “That was beautiful,” she said. The noise in the limo dropped to a quiet murmur.
“What was beautiful?”
“The song. You wrote it for Callie, right?”
“Yes. She didn’t by any chance watch it with you, did she?”
“No, she had already left, but when she dropped Logan off, she told him that it was going to be on. Do you want to talk to him?”
Before I could answer, she passed him the phone.
“Daddy? You were inside the TV.”
I chuckled. “Yes, I wasonTV. So you watched?”
“Yes, but I didn’t hear you sing,” he said matter-of-factly.
“Is Mommy there?”
“No. I miss you.”
“I miss you too.” And I did. How I’d survive touring without seeing him every day was a mystery. I’d spoken to him every day, when he was with Sharon, but that wasn’t the same. “But I’ll see you tomorrow. Do you know where Mommy is?”
“Somewhere magical.”
I considered that for a second. Something about his words sounded familiar. “Is that exactly what she said? Or did she say it was somewhere they bring magic to the screen?”
“Yes” was all he said before handing the phone back to my mom.
“Do you know where she went?” I asked.
“She didn’t say. She only said that she needed a few days to think things through. Did you two have a fight?”
Good question. I had no idea. As far as I knew we hadn’t. But when it came to figuring out women, I was clueless most of the time.
After getting off the phone with my mom, I checked to see if Callie had responded to my text. She hadn’t. And she still hadn’t responded by the time we boarded the plane and the flight attendant announced we had to turn off our phones.
Chapter 42
