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Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!  \n—William Shakespeare  \nTo be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.  \n—William Butler Yeats  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPrologue  \nGimme Avenue A ’cause they slay.  \nPleased with the rhythm in her head, Jenna Harbough rocked her hips to the beat.  \nThey may be old, but they rock and they roll.  \nProbably they wouldn’t like the “old” bit, but from her sixteen-year-old perspective, anyone heading toward, like, forty or whatever hit old.  \nI mean, jeez, even her parents liked their music. Which was why they’d agreed to let Jenna come, with her two besties, to the club to hear them live and in freaking person.  \nAvenue A played twice a year at Club Rock It, and for one night in the summer Rock It locked up the alcohol and opened the club to the undertwenty-one crowd.  \nAnyone who knew their music history was up on how back in the longgone day, like in the 2040s (talk about old!), Avenue A had their first real gig at Club Rock It. So they paid that back twice a year, even though they were totally rock gods EXTREME who played for sold-out crowds in stadiums and huge concert halls.  \nThough she’d campaigned to go on this once-a-year night for three years, she’d gotten the absolute, no-way no. Until this time!  \nNow she danced with Leelee and Chelsea while Avenue A slayed with“Baby, Do Me Right.”  \nAnd she danced close enough to the stage that she could see the sweat on Jake Kincade’s face. For an old guy, he was still looking frosty extreme. Maybe because he was really tall. She liked the way the lights hit the blue streaks in his black hair—and how they sort of matched his eyes.  \nDr-ream-y!  \nBut more, she loved how his fingers just freaking flew over the guitar strings.  \nOne day hers would do that. She knew she’d improved. She practiced every day, and knew, just knew, one day she’d stand onstage and slay the crowd with her music.  \nShe had a demo disc in her purse. Her biggest dream of the night involved finding a way to get it into Jake Kincade’s hands. She’d only put one song on it, the best she’d written, and she’d worked really hard on the demo.  \nMaybe it wasn’t all studio slick and professional, but you had to start somewhere. And the guys of Avenue A had been about her age when they really got going, so, maybe.  \nThey segued into “It’s Always Now,” a classic crowd-pleaser, and more people swarmed the dance floor.  \nJenna didn’t mind—the more the better. And she was so caught up in the music.  \nThen, just for a second, for one tiny second, Jake’s eyes met hers. He smiled; she died.  \nOn a squeal, she grabbed Leelee’s hand.  \n“He looked at me!”  \n“What?”  \nThen she grabbed Chelsea’s hand as Jenna’s face flushed so deep she felt the heat in her toes. “Jake Kincade looked right at me. He smiled at me!”  \n“On the real?” Chelsea demanded.  \n“So on it! Holy shitfire!”  \nShe bo","cbCaiaejiGcNy35G","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaejiGcNy35G","pdf",1450403,298,"English","# Prologue\n## Club Rock It night and Jenna’s plan\n## Jake Kincade and backstage movement","[{\"question\":\"Who is Jenna Harbough and what does she hope to do at Club Rock It?\",\"answer\":\"Jenna is a sixteen-year-old fan attending Avenue A’s performance. 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