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oldest
friends.”
    Lucy started to protest, but he cut
her off.
    “ Now, just hear me out.
I've been around a little bit longer than you and I think I might
know somethin'.” She smirked at him and he took a deep
breath.
    “ Your mama and I's biggest
desire was for you to be free. To not feel trapped or caged. When
she died while you were little, our lives got a whole lot more
quiet. I know I didn't do as good of a job with all the girl stuff
as she would have. But I taught you how to stick up for yourself
and always do the right thing. And I'm proud of that... but where I
messed up was in letting you go. I liked you here, I was afraid to
push you away, so I let you hang around for way too long. But you
have a real talent. There is no reason for you to stick around here
when you can go do all the things you have always dreamed about...
Blake was always saying the same thing. No matter how bad you think
you are for each other, he always had your back. Don't make your
decision based on your residual anger with him. Make the decision
based on what you want for your future. Do you want to play in
Taylor's band, or do you want to manage the diner?”
    Lucy thought for a while before
answering. He could see the gears turning in her head and knew
another argument was coming.
    “ But ignoring the factor
of Blake seems pretty irresponsible,” she pointed out. “He's a huge
rock star now, I can only imagine how the ego has grown,” she
grumbled, rolling her eyes. “I thought he was impossible
before.”
    “ Hey, I used to be a huge
rock star at one time and I can honestly tell you, he's just a man.
Like any other man. No more, no less.” Triny looked over at his
pretty daughter. “It might look like a bad idea from where you are,
but from my perspective it's an ideal situation.”
    “ Why's that?” Lucy
frowned, confused.
    “ Because as many times as
you went wild as a prairie fire, Blake was the cloud burst that
kept you from burning alive. You were more good for each other than
bad.”
    “ How come it doesn't feel
that way?” Lucy asked, her eyes glossy as she struggled with the
truth in his words.
    Triny put an arm around her shoulders
and hugged her to his side. “Because you both need to forgive
yourselves for the mistakes that were made. And I think being on
the road together will give you the perspective that you
need.”
    “ You think I should go.”
She swallowed and jutted her chin out bravely.
    “ Yes. Without a
doubt.”
    ***
    Kendra felt the sweat running rapidly
down the side of her face and she wiped at it futilely. She had
finished moving Blake and Sway's things over into the blue bus with
Harrison and Mike. Then Taylor Stevens' band had shown up, so she
proceeded to help get their things into the red bus. Being an
assistant was way more physical than she had anticipated, and her
muscles screamed and protested at her every night as she tried to
go to sleep.
    Tearing her ACL in her left knee a
couple of years ago, and the two surgeries afterward to attempt to
repair it, had effectively ended her dreams of dancing for The New
York City Ballet. As such, she had pretty much stopped keeping her
body in any sort of good physical condition. Her metabolism and
eating habits didn't change, so she was relatively the same size.
But her muscles had been weakened with inactivity and she couldn't
do the things she used to be able to do. After a week on the road
though, she was starting to redevelop her muscles, and it made her
feel good about how hard she was working. At least she had
something to show for it.
    She was honestly trying as
hard as she could. She still didn't feel like she fit, but she was
learning Carl's habits, and Lenny's constant coaching was very
helpful. She got the feeling that she would never have survived the
year before, but Lenny had spent that year breaking the crew in and
making the system flawless. All Kendra had to do was trust the
system and stay on schedule. That , she could do.
    Her