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My Favorite Kind of Blues - Teddy POV

Author: Dove Darling
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I don’t sleep.

I pace.

I write and rewrite a hundred versions of what I want to say—half songs, half confessions, none of them good enough. My notebook looks like I bled out on the page.

By the time the sun starts creeping over the edge of the trees, I have a plan.

No more playing it safe.

No more hiding the parts of myself I think she’ll run from.

It’s the last day of the festival. People are hungover, shuffling around camp with sunglasses and half-open beers. Brody tosses me a sideways look when I tell him what I’m about to do.

“You sure?” he asks.

“No,” I say. “But I’m doing it anyway.”

I find the guy running sound for the main stage, offer him a handshake and a favor to cash in later.

Then I go looking for her.

She’s crouched outside the van with Tyler, hair tied up in that effortless, messy way she doesn’t realize is sexy as hell. She looks up when she hears my footsteps, but her face is unreadable. Like she’s not sure how to hold me anymore.

“Come with me,” I say.

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