Chapter One
With her pen standing in for a drumstick, Jenna Blake tapped out a light but
rapid rhythm on the nearly blank sheet of notebook paper in front of her. The
previous night, she and her roommate, Yoshiko Kitsuta, had been hanging out in
Hunter LaChance's room. Hunter was Yoshiko's boyfriend, and they both insisted
it was destiny that put them on the same floor in the same dorm their freshman
year at Somerset University. The two had been a couple since the fall, and Jenna
was almost willing to believe that maybe it really was destiny between them. The
selfish part of her hoped so, because Yoshiko and Hunter were two of her closest
friends, and if they broke up, it would ruin a very good thing.
Her pen rap-tapped on the notebook almost without her being consciously aware of
it. But as she kept up the drumbeat, Jenna glanced down at her hand, wondering
what the song was that she was so pitifully attempting to play. ... read full excerpt from Brain Trust ebook