Chapter 38Annika
“I hear they’ll be having a really good country singer next.” Leo’s excited voice reached Annika from behind.
When is the dancing going to start? That’s all Annika cared about. Already she’d sat through twenty minutes of the old rancher from next door playing his guitar, and it was all she could do to stay awake. And she hadn’t seen Jesse since they’d untacked the horses. She’d seemed as excited about the hoedown as Annika was when she talked to her yesterday. When she’d promised to teach Annika some western dancing. Maybe she was tired of listening to the same hokey performers every time a new set of guests came and was waiting in her room till the dancing started.
Ah, finally! Just as the ancient cowboy announced that some guy named Nicky was going to sing and what a
