Zac continued reading the rather melancholy e-mail.
"Oh, poor Bree." He said to himself.
"What happened to Bree?" Taylor asked.
"Her boyfriend died. Brain tumour."
Taylor was quiet for a moment.
"Oh wow. That's terrible. How's she taking it?"
"She's very, very sad. And I feel kinda bad 'cause I was gonna tell her I could send her some tickets and backstage passes to one of the performances we were going to do while promoting in Australia."
"Why do u feel bad because of that?"
"Because I don't want her to think I'm not sympathetic. Duh!"
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A little later that day, Taylor logged into his own e-mail account. Or, at least, one of them anyway. He had managed to memorise Brees' e-mail address while Zacs' account had been open.
Hi Bree,
This is Taylor. Zac doesnt know Im writing this, so u have 2 promise not to tell him.
Besides, I want it 2 b a surprise. I guess u probably know he really wants 2 meet u.
Well, after hearing about Josh, he didnt want 2 offer u these tickets and backstage
passes cos he thought u might think he was being unsympathetic and selfish or
whatever. So Im offering them 2 u for him. If u could reply and gimme ur addy, Ill
send 'em 2 u asap. Im sending an attachment w/ a list of all our appearances in Aust,
so just pick which 1 youll go 2.
From Taylor
"Hey Tay, whatcha doing?" Zac asked.
Taylor quickly hit 'send' and turned to his brother, hoping to distract him from the screen.
"Oh, just sending an e-mail."
"To who?"
"None of your business."
Immediately, Taylor wished he said something else.
"Ooh. Taylor's got an online girlfriend." Zac teased. "Laura's got some competition."
Oh phew, Taylor thought he was going to say something else.
"Yeah, sure Zac. Whatever you say."