Free P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern

college after school and instead began working as a secretary, where she moved from job to job every few months, ending with the awful job she left so she could spend time with Gerry while he was sick. She doubted she would have stayed at it that much longer anyway. Gerry had studied marketing at Dublin City University but he never socialized much with his college friends; instead he chose to go out with Holly, Sharon and John, Denise and whoever she was with at the time. Looking around at everyone, Holly didn’t feel like she had missed anything special.
    Finally Declan managed to tear himself away from his female fans and make his way over to Holly.
    “Well hello, Mr. Popular, I feel privileged you chose me to speak to next.” All the girls stared Holly up and down and wondered what the hell Declan saw in this older woman.
    Declan laughed and rubbed his hands together cheekily. “I know! This band business is great, looks like I’ll be getting a bit of action tonight,” he said cockily.
    “As your sister it’s always a pleasure to be informed of that,” Holly replied sarcastically. She found it impossible to maintain a conversation with Declan, as he refused eye contact with her and instead scoured the crowds.
    “OK, Declan, just go, why don’t you, and flirt with these beauties instead of being stuck here with your old sister.”
    “Oh no, it’s not that,” he said defensively. “It’s just that we were told there might be a record company guy coming to see us play tonight.”
    “Oh cool!” Holly’s eyes widened with excitement for her brother. This obviously meant a lot to him, and she felt guilty for never taking an interest in it before. She looked around and tried to spot someone who looked like a record company guy. What would he look like? It’s not as if he would be sitting in the corner with a notebook and pen scribbling furiously. Finally her eyes fell upon a man who seemed much older than the rest of the crowd, more her own age. He was dressed in a black leather jacket, black slacks and a black T-shirt and stood with his hands on his hips staring at the stage. Yes, he was definitely a record company guy, as he had stubble all around his jaw and looked like he hadn’t been to bed for days. He must have stayed up all night every night this week attending concerts and gigs and probably slept all day. He probably smelled bad as well. Or else he was just a weirdo who liked to go to student nights and ogle all the young girls. Also a possibility.
    “Over there, Deco!” Holly raised her voice over the noise and pointed at the man. Declan looked excited and his eyes followed to where her finger pointed. His smile faded as he obviously recognized the man. “No, it’s just Danny! ” he yelled, and he wolf-whistled to grab his attention.
    Danny twirled around trying to find his caller and nodded his head in recognition and made his way over. “Hey man,” Declan said, shaking his hand.
    “Hi Declan, how are you set?” The man looked stressed.
    “Yeah, OK,” Declan nodded unenthusiastically. Somebody must have told Declan that acting like you didn’t care was cool.
    “Sound check go OK?” He pressed him for more information.
    “There were a few problems but we sorted them out.”
    “So everything’s OK?”
    “Sure.”
    “Good.” His face relaxed and he turned to greet Holly. “Sorry for ignoring you there, I’m Daniel.”
    “Nice to meet you, I’m Holly.”
    “Oh sorry,” Declan interrupted. “Holly, this is the owner; Daniel, this is my sister.”
    “Sister? Wow, you look nothing alike.”
    “Thank God,” Holly mouthed to Daniel so Declan couldn’t see, and he laughed.
    “Hey Deco, we’re on!” yelled a blue-haired boy at him.
    “See you two later,” and he ran off.
    “Good luck!” yelled Holly after him. “So you’re a Hogan,” she said, turning to face Daniel.
    “Well, no actually, I’m a Connolly,” he smiled. “I just took over the place a few weeks