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“Only if you let me drive.”

He grinned. They drove off into the Nashville night, the broken tape recorder finally playing a perfect, unbroken melody. Once upon a song, Katie Gibbs stopped cleaning up other people’s dreams—and started singing her own. A Cinderella Story- Once Upon A SongHD

The first chord was pure, clean, and sad. Then she opened her mouth and sang “One Day in the Sun.” Her voice wasn’t perfect in the polished, studio way. It was cracked with longing, rich with loss, and bright with hope. She sang about her father teaching her chords on this very guitar. About feeling invisible in a city of neon lights. About the one day she knew would come. “Only if you let me drive

He smiled. “I knew it was you.”

The room went silent. Even the waiters stopped pouring champagne. Mira’s face turned from smug to ashen to volcanic. But she couldn’t move. No one could. The first chord was pure, clean, and sad

Katie’s only allies were her stepmother’s bumbling but sweet-natured son, Gabe, who spent more time fixing his hair than fixing a chord progression, and the studio’s grizzled sound engineer, “Uncle” Lou. Lou had worked with the greats. He knew real talent when he heard it.

Katie looked up, breathless. And that’s when she saw him—a boy near the soundboard, clapping louder than anyone. He had kind eyes, messy dark hair, and he was holding the other half of her broken tape recorder. He’d been the one to find it in the trash and fix it. He was the new intern, Luke.