Can Dreams Come True? by Krysten Lindsay Hager
Publication date: March 20th, 2018
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
Cecily has always had a huge crush on singer Andrew Holiday and she wants to be an actress, so she tags along when her friend auditions for his new video.
However, the director isn’t looking for an actress, but rather the girl next door — and so is Andrew. Cecily gets a part in the video and all of Andrew’s attention on the set. Her friend begins to see red and Cecily’s boyfriend is seeing green — as in major jealousy. A misunderstanding leaves Cecily and her boyfriend on the outs and Andrew hopes to pick up the pieces as he’s looking for someone more stable in his life than the models he’s dated. Soon Cecily begins to realize Andrew understands her more than her small-town boyfriend — but can her perfect love match really be her favorite rock star?
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Excerpt:
Andrew sat back and nodded. “Well, Dimitri got the song, you
know? He understood what I was looking for—a relationship where two people
understand each other on a spiritual level. You know, where their souls
connect. Make sense?”
“Yeah, is that what you have with your girlfriend?” I asked
hoping it didn’t look like I was phishing for info on who he was dating.
He shook his head. “Nah, I’ve never had anything like that
before. But it’s the ultimate idea though, you know? How about you?”
“No, never,” I said and then I felt guilt wash over me. “I
mean, I’ve had deep connections with people—just not what you’re talking about
or what Dimitri said—the whole deep mystical thing.”
Andrew stared at me and I felt like he was looking into my
soul. “Sometimes it feels like it’s impossible to get that connection with
anybody. Or you think you’re halfway there and they say they get you, but then
something happens and you know they weren’t as deep into it as you were—or at
least as deep as you were hoping. That’s the inspiration for next song I’m
working on. It’s about when you want to believe so badly that you have a soul
connection, then something happens and you realize it was just another
superficial relationship. That’s the title: Just Another Superficial
Relationship.”
“Wow, I can’t wait to hear it.”
“I can sing you the chorus if you want,” he said.
Holding my breath, I tried to be cool and not squeal with
delight that my favorite singer was about to not only sing for me, but let me
hear an unreleased song. This was like a dream come true and it made me
question if I hadn’t indeed fallen into the water and hit my head on some
rocks, and was now either dreaming this in a coma somewhere or this was my own
personal version of heaven. I felt guilty for inwardly gushing over Andrew when
I had a boyfriend. But this wasn’t about me being interested in going out with
Andrew. It would never happen anyway. This was just me meeting my crush who
happened to be a singer, who I felt understood my feelings more than anyone
else.
Andrew sang the chorus and a warmth washed over me. The song
was perfect—the yearning, the longing—I had experienced all of it myself. It
was like he had taken all my innermost thoughts and somehow put them into
words.
“Amazing,” I said. My whole body was warm as my mind raced.
Was I actually sitting here with him and having him trust me enough to share a
new song? This was beyond anything I had dreamt of happening today.
Author Bio:Who knew all those embarrassing, cringe-y moments in middle school and high school could turn into a career? And who would have thought that daydreaming in math class would pay off down the road?
Krysten Lindsay Hager writes about friendship, self-esteem, fitting in, frenemies, crushes, fame, first loves, and values.
She is the author of True Colors, Best Friends…Forever?, Next Door to a Star, Landry in Like, Competing with the Star (The Star Series: Book 2) and Dating the It Guy. True Colors, won the Readers Favorite award for best preteen book and the Dayton Book Expo Bestseller Award for childen/teens. Competing with the Star is a Readers’ Favorite Book Award Finalist. Krysten’s work has been featured in USA Today, The Flint Journal, the Grand Haven Tribune, the Beavercreek Current, the Bellbrook Times, Springfield News-Sun, Grand Blanc View, Dayton Daily News and on Living Dayton. Coming soon: Can Dreams Come True.
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