Saturday, August 25
CAROL shook so badly that Aria Williams took the mascara wand from her hand and applied it to her lashes for her. She giggled with delight the entire time. Carol stared straight ahead, unable to see the humor, longing for this entire ordeal to end. “Tell me again how many people are out there,” she whispered.
“Shush,” Aria said and tilted her face to the light. “It’s only eight hundred.”
She started to panic again and whispered a quiet prayer. “Dear God, help me, please.”
“That’s no big deal,” Melody Montgomery said. “I’ve performed in front of sixty thousand before.”
“Harmony’s the one who has to sing in front of every Nashville star here. She’s the one who should be nervous,” Lori Bradford declared, putting a hand on the huge swell of her stomach.
Harmony Harper
