Sapph-Lit | Read CHAPTER TWO of Creative Differences
Read CHAPTER TWO of Creative Differences
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Chapter 1
Chicago, IL
“I’m not playing that song.”
Ramona Sloane has lost track of how many times she’s said so. And it’s not like Patrick isn’t listening—he definitely hears her.
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Then he turns and walks out of the sound booth. Ramona salutes his retreating back, slips her headphones back over both ears, and flips the microphone on. “That was ‘Hysteric’ from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and before that, the new single from Ratboys. I’m Ramona Sloane, and you’re listening to 103.1 WBQR. One more from me today before I pass it over to my friend Kate Breed. This is illuminati hotties with ‘(You’re Better) Than Ever.’”
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There are a lot of reasons Ramona moved back to Chicago after college.
As she walks through downtown toward Millennium Park, she thinks to herself that the air smells kind of good—mildly springlike. Spring-adjacent. On the first actually warm day, everyone is in a great mood...
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Ramona sits up. “Now you’re making it sound like you have bad news.”
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When Celeste first broke the news, Ramona felt like her life was over. So young, she’d held in her hands what so many spend their whole lives grasping for.
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She knows saying yes won’t make her happy; she’s also fairly certain saying no won’t make her feel . . . anything. And this decision impacts more than just her and her career—it impacts Celeste, and Bea, and a whole team of crew members and musicians who would get paid if she says yes. The only casualty would be her sanity.
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Amelia already said yes. Ramona tries not to think it, but it comes anyway: Amelia wants to see me. But she doesn’t know that. And she won’t hope for it. Because she hoped for Amelia once, and it just left her a bigger mess than she already was before.
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Fucking art school.