Ally grimaced. “Oh yeah. Let’s play truth or dare instead.”
“No way.” Their friend Brooke shook her head, and winked at Lydia. “I’ve played that with you guys before. I ended up having to call Frank Megassey to tell him I loved him.”
“We were seventeen,” Ally pointed out. “And it was funny as hell.”
“How about never have I ever?” Lydia suggested. “I say something like ‘never have I ever kissed a girl,’ and if you’ve actually done that, you drink.”
“Have you kissed a girl?” Autumn asked, tilting her head to stare at Lydia. Her eyes were as fuzzy as her speech.
Lydia bit down a smile at how drunk her sister was. “Yep.” She grinned. “But only once and there were no tongues.”
“Okay,” Ally said, picking her glass up. “I’ll start. Never have I ever had a threesome.”
Everybody’s glasses stayed down. Ally wrinkled her nose. “You guys are boring.” She looked over at Lydia. “And I’m disappointed with you. I thought you were the adventurous sister.”
Lydia laughed. “What can I say? I like all the attention on me.”
“Ah, me too,” Harper said with a sigh. “James doesn’t get to touch anybody but this girl.” She poked herself in the chest and winced. “Ouch.”
They all laughed.
“You go next,” Ally suggested to Lydia, shaking her head. “And make it exciting. We need some of that in Angel Sands.”
“Okay.” Lydia bit down a smile and lifted her drink. Here went nothing. “Never have I ever kissed Jackson Lewis.” She took a big swig of her cocktail.
They were all staring at her. Autumn was the first to break the silence. “You kissed Jackson?”
“Kind of.” Lydia shrugged. “I mean, our lips touched. But his dad interrupted us.”
Autumn put her drink down. “I need to know more. When? How? What else has been going on that I don’t know about?”
The girls all leaned forward, their eyes wide.
“I’ll tell you, if you promise to answer me something,” Lydia said, her voice serious.
“What?” Ally asked.
“Who’s Hayley?” Lydia put her glass on the driftwood coffee table in front of her. “I heard his dad mention her name. And say that she hurt Jackson.”
Ally glanced at Ember. “Hayley was Jackson’s fiancée.”
“Was?” Lydia asked. “What happened to her?”
Ally sighed. “I don’t know all the details. It was before we hung around with them much.”
“I know,” Caitie said, scooting forward in her seat. “I kind of grew up with Griff and Jackson, since they’re Lucas’ best friends.” She grimaced in the way only a little sister could. “Jackson and Hayley met at college, and after they graduated, they c
ame back here to live. He was working at Newton’s and she was a dental assistant. They got engaged after a few years, and were in the middle of planning their wedding when she got pregnant.”
Lydia’s mouth dropped open. She wasn’t expecting that.
Caitie grimaced and added, “Only the baby wasn’t Jackson’s.”
“Oh my god.” Lydia’s mouth dropped open. “Whose was it?”
“Her boss’. She’d been doing the dirty with him.”
“I guess teeth weren’t the only things getting drilled at the dental practice,” Ally murmured. Ember coughed into her cocktail glass.