Chapter 6 Theo worked his way through the crowd of people standing in the side room that housed the pool tables. Nearly half the crowd came in search of him not long after he announced the band was breaking. He couldn’t count how many people offered to buy him a drink, but most wanted nothing more than to praise him for the performance. As egotistical as it sounded, he enjoyed the attention. Saying otherwise would be a lie, but he knew it wasn’t his sole purpose for pursuing his dream. Who cared what anyone else thought. He passed the pool tables, moved across the dance floor, and merged into a new crowd of people near the bar. Like the others, they said nice things that inflated his ego, but all he wanted was to grab a beer, maybe a shot of tequila, and then bullshit with Jesse at the