He’s moody. He’s curt. And he’s devoted to Fausten. He does her hair, her makeup. Her style, too—not that there’s too much of that to do anymore, now that her style’s become so iconic. Like Marilyn. Or Audrey. You know?
Moody, devoted… but also angry. He remembers that night when he called Fausten to tell her they’d booked the Orphic Starlight.
The Orphic. Freaking. Starlight.
She’d been thrilled, of course—of course she’d been thrilled. But Petty thought she’d sounded distracted. The Orphic Starlight! How could anything else matter when they’d worked so hard for exactly this opportunity. And the theater had called them.
But Fausten didn’t want to celebrate with him. She said she had something else more important to do.
The next time Petty saw her, she’d been this strange combination of in awe and freaked out. And that week, as they prepared for the show, Petty had warned her not to get distracted. He’d tried to get Fausten to refocus on their act, on their dreams.
But he should have tried harder. And he would have had he known just what had her distracted and what it would cost them.
And boy had it cost them.
And all because Fausten didn’t like to hear the word no. From anyone.
I’ll tell you who said no to her first, tomorrow…
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