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Chapter Ninety

Author: Vendite Johnson
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Chapter 90 – Lance

It’s been several days since the wedding was over and everything went back to normal. So far nothing has gone weird or exciting and I might say it has gone back to being overtly typical. My life returned to waking up just doing my own stuff and then going to the café by the afternoon and going to my nightly gigs by nightfall. The only change I had was I am now starting to pull out all of the songs that I’ve shelved and began singing them trying find good bops because I know most of the songs that I wrote are either mid-tempo ballads or just a sad song with no sick beat. I understand the fact that in order to enter the scene, you should either have a real banger of a song or date someone famous so you could promote your music in their limelight.

I’m not trying to count the days that has gone since the last time I’m with Jayler but I guess my mind’s doing it unconsciously for me. I still don’t have any form of communication with Jayler and I’ve been missing him every
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