Author: jodielarson

Downbeat |n|: The first beat in a measure, often the strongest.Fame, fortune, traveling to different cities across the country…I’m living the dream. As the drummer for the Lightning Strikes, it’s my job to hook you in and keep you coming back for more. It’s my craft, my calling, what I’m a master at. Even with all that, I’m still just a normal guy who wants to eat at food trucks and lounge on the … trucks and lounge on the couch, playing video games until I can’t see straight.Everything was perfect.At least I thought it was, until a blonde bombshell…

There’s nothing, not anymore. No perfect life. No clear path. Just…nothing. I didn’t want the life my parents mapped out for me. Being the piano prodigy was never my goal. It was theirs.I craved normalcy, a life of my own.I should have been careful what I wished for because one second, one moment of anger was all it took to rip away everything that mattered.Now I’m left with nothing but regret.… mattered.Now I’m left with nothing but regret.He thinks he can save me, but the shadows that surround always pull me back, reminding me of what I’d done, of what…