How to Catch a (Rock) Star (The Dead Hour #1) Read Online Free PDF Page A

intriguing to say to blast away the gloom she had brought to their date.
    ‘So. Do you like Japanese food?’ she said, her brain having failed to come up with anything even remotely interesting.
    ‘Oh, sure. There’s a great sushi restaurant in New York called Sosumi,’ he paused and looked at her. ‘It’s full of lawyers though…’ he grinned and Lillie laughed.
    ‘That is so bad!’ She giggled again. ‘I’ve got one too. There’s a Japanese guy, a Mexican guy and a blonde guy. At lunch one day, the Japanese guy says, “What? Sushi again? If I have to eat sushi for lunch again, I’m gonna jump off a building!” The Mexican guy opens his lunchbox and says, “Oh man, tacos again? If I have to eat tacos for lunch one more time, I’m gonna jump off a building too!” Finally, the blonde guy looks in his bag and says, “Oh, jeez, a sandwich again? If I have to eat a sandwich for lunch again, I’m gonna jump off a building too!” At the funeral, the wife of the Japanese guy says, “If I’d known he didn’t like sushi, I wouldn’t have made it for him anymore!” Then the wife of the Mexican guy says, “If I’d have known he didn’t like tacos, I wouldn’t have made them for him again!” Everyone looks at the blonde guy’s wife and she says, “What? HE MADE HIS OWN LUNCH.”’
    Jed shook his head, laughing.
    ‘That is way worse than mine. And blondist too. Does Kate know you tell that joke?’ Lillie laughed. ‘Okay, this is my all time favourite. You ready?’
    Lillie nodded, feeling the laughter rise in her throat in anticipation.
    ‘Okay, what do you call somebody with no body and just a nose?’ Lillie raised her eyebrows.
    ‘I don’t know.’
    Jed grinned and shrugged his shoulders as he said, ‘Nobody knows!’
    Lillie dropped his hand and had to stop walking she was laughing so much.
    ‘That is the worst joke I’ve ever heard,’ she gasped out, standing up straight and walking on, Jed reaching for her hand again.
    ‘This is the worst joke in the world,’ Jed said. ‘What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?’ he paused theatrically and waited for Lillie to look at him. ‘A carrot.’ Lillie groaned and came to a stop.
    ‘We’re here,’ she said. ‘Are the bad jokes over?
    ‘Maybe, depends how much sake I have,’ he replied, opening the door for her.
    As they stepped inside, Lillie was glad to see it was everything she had heard it was. Modern, clean lines, sparkling surfaces, beautiful, bright oriental flower arrangements and strings of delicate patterned origami birds hanging down from the ceiling.
    Jed regaled Lillie with stories from the road and some rather disturbing incidences with what he called ‘super’ fans, although he admitted that Johnny called them psycho fans which was probably more apt.
    After sharing a wasabi ice cream, Jed asked her what she wanted to do next.
    ‘There’s a really nice little pub I know but it’s a bit of a way,’ she said, looking down at her heeled boots.
    ‘We’ll get a cab,’ Jed said, signaling for the bill and Lillie took her wallet out of her bag. ‘What are you doing?’ he asked, staring at the red wallet in her hands as if it were a Justin Bieber CD.
    Lillie, flustered, started to say she would like to pay half but he cut her off with an emphatic no.
    ‘I asked you on a date, so I pay. Isn’t that how it works here?’
    ‘Sometimes,’ Lillie said, thinking about how Married Matt always paid in cash and calculated exactly how much Lillie owed with a special app on his phone, including half the tip which was always ten percent to the penny, never over. How he had ever managed to get someone to marry him was a complete mystery.
    Jed settled the bill with crumpled up notes, commenting on how much easier it was to distinguish the denominations with English notes than American ones.
    ‘I like how the twenties are purple because it hurts more to spend those than the tens or fives,’ he said, holding out her cardigan for