Chapter 11
After Mike and Trace are gone, Adam sits on the battered sofa along one wall of the recording booth and fiddles with the tuning knobs on his guitar. He pretends he isn’t watching Paul, who’s back in the sound booth with Lewis. Adam isn’t sure what they’re talking about but every now and then Paul looks over at him, and once when he sees Adam looking back, he smiles. He has quite a disarming grin. Adam suspects they’re talking about him. He imagines Paul saying, I told you so, and Lewis going, Yeah, yeah, because Paul told him they were good and he can’t say that they aren’t. Adam wishes he could hear that jerk tell him that to his face.
And he wonders how much longer they’re going to stay here. Paul asked if he wanted to start something tonight and Adam thought he meant withou
