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“Ughhhh,” said Ben a few minutes later. “Ugh, it’s so sappy and, and cliched and she’s gonna think I’m joking—“ Apparently, they could stop pretending this wasn’t about Beatrice. Balthazar appreciated that. “Maybe tell her you’re not, then.” Ben’s eyebrows knit together. “Like, in the lyrics themselves? Or some sort of fine print disclaimer beforehand that you hold up on a notecard while playing an intro on the kazoo?” “In the lyrics,” said Balthazar. He strummed a C chord, then a G. E minor. A minor. “When you’re writing a song for someone, probably helps to get specific. It’ll mean more to them, y’know?” He tried for F minor 7. It didn’t sound right. “If you stay vague and mysterious, they might not know it’s about them. In, like, a you-and-them sense.” He rearranged his fingers on the frets, pressed harder. “Or they kind of—have the option of pretending they don’t know.” (Or: two times Balthazar Jones helped his friends express their feelings via song, and one time he did not.)

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