I shrug my shoulders. “Hey, at least I didn’t cut a bitch.”
“True,” he smiles proudly. “There’s always that.”
We waltz out of the closet and out into the hallway where we find Jesse with Rowland slammed up against the wall and Kaylah behind him. Tora stops and Rivers pushes me on. That is clearly Broken Hill business that I have no place getting involved in.
As we head down the stairs, a slim, pissed off body steps in front of me. “What the fuck do you think you’re doing up there?”
All I can do is smile at the bitch. “Gotcha now, Monica,” I tell her, feeling the heat of my evidence in my back pocket. “It’s game time.” Without a second glance, Rivers and I step down around her and head straight out the front door.
Chapter 15
Tully groans as she looks out the front windshield of her Jeep before glancing back at me. She repeats the process at least three more times before I snap. “What is it?” I demand, knowing I can only take so much more of this, and besides, we’re nearly at Aria’s school and if she’s doesn’t say what’s on her mind now, she never will.
“I…” she glances back at Aria in the backseat before cringing. “Rivers and I…sealed the deal.”
“WHAT?” I screech, desperately wanting to throw myself across her Jeep and shake her. I mean, we’ve been talking all freaking morning and this is only just coming out now. What the hell? Aria laughs at my outburst and I thank the heavens above that she has absolutely no idea what we’re talking about. “Are you serious, right now? You guys actually…sealed the deal?”
Her beaming smile is confirmation enough. “WHAT!” I screech again. “Holy shit. I was not expecting that first thing on my Monday morning. Was it like…? How was it?”
Her smile is so damn big she can’t even answer my questions.
“So, are you guys…together now?” I question, probing for answers and still wondering why I haven’t got them yet.
She shrugs her shoulders and the smile begins to slip away. “I don’t know,” she tells me. “We haven’t exactly had a chance to talk about it, you know? It only happened last night.”
“Ok, but how do you feel? Did you get the impression that something more was happening? Or was it just…” my eyes flick back to the back seat before I spell out the word, “s-e-x?”
“Trust me, with him it’s not just s-e-x. It was, wow. I can’t even…he made me feel…I mean, my legs are still shaking.”
“Why are your legs shaking?” Aria laughs from the backseat making both mine and Tully’s eyes go wide.
“Oh, um…” Tully stumbles out. “I went for a really big,” wink, “long run yesterday and it lasted all night. My whole body is so sore,” Tully explains to my little sister as my mouth gapes open, catching her double meaning.
“Ugh,” Aria cringes. “I don’t want to run if it makes me sore.”
“No, that’s right. No running for you,” I tell her as Tully pulls up at Aria’s school.
I hop out of the Jeep and help Aria down before quickly walking her in and making sure she’s alright with the teacher. I haul ass back out to Tully’s Jeep and practically fly over the side, desperate to get in and get the real details that I’m actually after now that Aria’s innocent little ears are well out of range.
“Spill it,” I tell her. “I want every last detail.”
She grins at me before pulling away from the curb and starting the journey to Haven Falls Private. “Ok,” she says. “So, it started yesterday afternoon. You and Noah were busy fucking around doing who the hell knows what, and Rivers and I were just sort of chilling out back, sitting on the stairs, soaking up the sun, and talking.”
“Talking?” I repeat. “Talking about what?”
“’Bout everything,” she tells me. “Us, and whatever this thing between us is.”
“And?” I prompt, wishing she could talk just a little bit faster.
“And then I find a pair of balls somewhere and told him that he’s my end game and that he’s not just some guy I’m crushing on. That whatever it is that I’m feeling for him is more than real. You know, we kind of went deeper than the usual bullshit and I could feel us connecting on a different level…and, I don’t know. Out of all my moments with him, that’s one of my favorites.”
I press my lips together, forcing myself not to cry over how brave she was. Putting herself out there like that wouldn’t have been easy. “What did he say?” I question, wishing I had a bowl of popcorn to make the moment perfect. “You know after you laid it all out for him.”
“That’s when he started looking for an escape,” she grins.
“What do you mean?”