I watched Sarah’s face sink the moment I brought it up, and I reached over and took her hand.
“Boyfriend shit, I take it?” I asked.
“Ex-boyfriend shit,” Sarah said.
“What? What happened?”
“I found out he was cheating on me, Amanda.”
“Well, he wasn’t really a winner, to begin with,” I said.
“Come on. Work with me here.”
“Sorry. How did you find out?” I asked.
“He called me from jail.”
“Wait, wait, wait. Back up a second. How the hell did Blake wind up in jail?”
“I haven’t told you?” she asked.
“I think I’d remember a fucking conversation about Blake going to jail, Sarah.”
“He got into a fight with someone at a gas station. From what he told me, some guy was yelling at his pregnant girlfriend, and Blake stepped in. Punches were thrown, and both of them were arrested.”
“Oh. So he’s not, like, in prison. He’s just being held,” I said.
“Until a couple of days ago, yeah.”
“Okay, so fast forward a bit. When did you get this phone call?” I asked.
“I was his one phone call you get while you’re in holding.”
“He didn’t call his parents or something?” I asked.
“I guess not,” she said, shrugging. “Anyway, he was giving me the details of what happened, and I told him to stay there. That I was coming down to the station to bail him out or whatever I had to do to get him.”
“So, you went to the station?”
“And there was some bitch there who had already bailed him out. I walked into the station and saw them coming out, hand in hand with her lips attached to his damn neck.”
“But you were the only phone call he made?” I asked. “How did that other girl know he was in there?”
“It was the pregnant girl,” Sarah said flatly.
I had to take a second to wrap my mind around that fact before I drew in a deep breath.
“So… let me get this straight. Blake got into a fight with a man in the gas station who was yelling at a pregnant chick. We assume it’s the man’s girlfriend, but really it’s a girl Blake knocked up?” I asked.
“Yes,” she said
.
“And she went to the station to bail him out.”
“Yes.”
“After he called you to tell you what was going on,” I said.