“Mom said the doctor called the house. Call him back.” Landon patted her shoulder and then walked away back to a group of his firefighter buddies in retreat.
Kiara tensed like she considered stomping her foot.
“I don’t think you do that.” I said putting my arm around her.
“Do what?” She grunted.
“Mess it up.” I said curious about her past relationships more than I had a right to be.
“Typically no. The last serious boyfriend I had…well it doesn’t matter.”
“So what did he mean about calling the doctor?” I asked. If she was sick or something I wanted her to be okay, but this was news to me and I didn’t think she’d like my opinion about it.
“Nothing, for you to worry about.” Kiara left me standing gaping at her as she walked away to say hello to another party goer. I guess I was going to have to pry that out of her later despite knowing the basics, she continued to leave the whole of it off the table.
“Nice to see you here.” Evan Rooney strolled up out of uniform for a change. I almost never saw him out of his badge.
“Hey, buddy.” We did the bro hug. The goat debacle and Remington were still between us.
“I hear you’ve been around the pub more often.” I snickered. I knew he had a thing for Remington. As much as I didn’t like it I also had a feeling she returned the feelings despite hooking up with the idiot college football player who was also hanging around the pub lately.
“Beer is good, what can I say.”
“Is that what we’re calling it.” I murmured.
“I’m a little old to be picking up girls like that.” He sipped his beer scanning the crowd. If Remi was here he’d find her, but I also knew she was holed up at her apartment when I left this morning.
“Never said I liked it, but I also know when my opinion isn’t wanted.” I grunted.
“I take it Andy is still…” The words were left unsaid, but we both grunted. I didn’t know how much Evan knew about Sierra, and I also didn’t want to ruin a perfectly good Saturday with talking about her.
“Yeah. I was kind of hoping that ship sailed.” Of course it hadn’t.
“You guys up for some friendly frisbee?” Landon jogged over to us.
Evan laughed. “Last time we played Fire versus Cops. You know who won, right?”
“Yeah, but I’m hoping we can convince my sister’s boyfriend to play on our side.”
I hummed.
Boyfriend was I?
This thought had me thinking of all the ways I could tease Kiara later. We never put labels on anything. I hadn’t needed to, but it felt right. Good.
I finished off my beer and followed after Landon. “Sure. I enjoy a friendly game amongst friends.”
“History, bro. I thought we had history.” Evan called after me waving his hands up and down looking disappointed. Yeah, we had history, but apparently, I now had a girlfriend and despite the bros before less than classy ladies, I had a girl I wanted to impress. Evan would have to deal with it.
I turned around to give him a shrug. He was a good sport and it was all in good fun. I hadn’t played a game of ultimate frisbee since my days overseas with my army platoon. Nothing stranger than playing in a never ending desert for hours while we waited for the call to action. I only hoped I wouldn’t have another crippling episode of memories incapacitating me.
26
Kiara
Everything was going great until the fireworks. Landon and his crew decided to set off fir
eworks as the sun was setting. A mountain backdrop was the perfect scenery for the end of the night. Except for one detail David left out.