Behind the Bars, the first beautiful and emotional standalone in the all-new Music Street Series from Brittainy C. Cherry is available NOW!
When I first met Jasmine Greene, she came in as raindrops. I was the awkward musician, and she was the high school queen. The only things we had in common were our music and our loneliness. Something in her eyes told me her smile wasn’t always the truth. Something in her voice gave me a hope I always wished to find. And in a flash, she was gone. Years later, she was standing in front of me on a street in New Orleans. She was different, but so was I. Life made us colder. Harder. Isolated. Caged. Even though we were different, the broken pieces of me recognized the sadness in her. Now she was back, and I wouldn’t make the mistake of letting her go again. When I first met Jasmine Greene, she came in as raindrops. When we met again, she was the darkest storm. Excerpt:By the way, what happened to Todd’s nose?” I asked.“I broke it,” Elliott said matter-of-factly. “What? How? Why?” He shrugged before turning to look out the window. “He called you a bad name.” “What was it?” “It doesn’t matter.” “Eli,” I started. He turned my way and locked his hazel eyes with my browns. “Jazz…” He shook his head. “It wasn’t true.” I swallowed hard, a big part of me certain Todd’s words held some form of truth. Elliott saw it in me—my fear. He kept shaking his head and whispered, “I don’t feel sorry for you. Sometimes you look at me like you think I feel sorry for you, and I want you to know I don’t. I think you’re perfect the way you are.” I quietly laughed at him repeating the words I’d told him earlier. A few tears rolled down my cheeks. “I’m a little messed up.” “I know.” He nodded. “That’s why I like you.” He went back to staring out the window, and I kept staring at him. And there it was. So small, so tiny, so real. Love. It wasn’t love, but it was the beginning of it. I knew I was young, and I knew it was stupid, but in that moment, I began to fall in love with the quiet boy who quietly cared for me. The boy who was scared and still strong. The boy who stood up for me when he was surrounded by reasons not to do such a thing. I hadn’t known much about love. I hadn’t known how it looked, felt, or tasted. I hadn’t known how it moved, how it flowed, but I knew my heart was tight and currently skipping a few beats. I understood the goose bumps covering my arms. I knew this stuttering boy who was sometimes so scared was someone worth loving. He was worth being the first one I gave my heart to. I knew Elliott Adams was love. And I was falling into him so fast.
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5 Star Review by Ashley
I can't...my heart...this book....Gah! This book was just stunningly beautiful and heartbreaking, too. But this is Brittainy C. Cherry, I knew Behind the Bars was gonna pull at my heart going in, I just didn't know why or how much. I can't tell you who I liked more, Elliot with his shyness that spoke through his music. Or Jasmine with her soul much older than her years. These two were polar opposites. It shouldn't have made sense. They shouldn't have been friends. But they were and it was beautiful. As they bonded through the one thing that moved them both, that friendship grew into something so much more than their young hearts knew what to do with. Then life happened. Dreams shifted. Tragedy struck. Life changed. Elliot changed. Jasmine changed. The music in them changed. It was painful. It was raw. It was real. And it broke my heart. There was more than one time when I caught myself trying to rub the ache out of my chest. I feel as if I'm stuttering like Elliot trying to the words right to describe how much Behind the Bars moved me (so forgive the rambling on). I felt Elliot and Jasmine's pain. They suffered so much, needlessly. And guilt was suffocating at times. But despite the pain and the time, there was one thing that couldn't and wouldn't stop. The music. It bled them dry, it revealed their truth and healed them. I felt their love. It was powerful and come from the purest place of their souls. And that ending, be still my heart it was the perfection that Jasmine and Elliot deserved.
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