Unbroken Rules (Rules 3)

“Actually, I haven’t eaten in two days and I’m starving, but help yourself, you pig.”

“I’ll leave you some.” He smirks. “Maybe.”

Charming.

“Answers, please. Why did you break up?” Will insists.

Anxiety rushes through me at the mere thought of reliving my birthday party all over again. Allie catches on immediately.

“Nope!” She sticks her finger in the air. “Today, we don’t talk about him. We don’t mention his name. Haze Adams doesn’t exist. No, you know what, let’s spice it up. For every time Winter talks about Haze in any way, she’ll have to take a shot tonight when we go out, how about that?”

They all agree, happily taking part in my future misery. I wish I could say that they’re wrong. Confidently state that I can resist talking about him for the rest of the day, but that would be a big, fat lie.

After all, breaking the rules is what got me in this mess in the first place…

“Don’t you all just love shopping?” Allie smiles, bags upon bags of new clothes dangling off her arms.

“I fell asleep three times during that sentence,” Kendrick says, making Will and Alex laugh. After my unexpected guests settled in, Allie decided we weren’t staying inside the entire day and dragged us out to the mall. We’ve been here for two hours tops, and the girls have already spent around two hundred dollars each.

Kendrick and Allie said they’d sleep at Allie’s place to leave the two guest rooms to Kass and the guys. Will still had to take the couch, but I’m sure he’ll manage. They’re not staying for long. A few days at most.

I wonder what Haze is doing.

If he’s as miserable as I am.

Man, if I had to take a shot every time I think about him, I’d be throwing up in the water fountain by now. As for talking about him, I’m already at three shots. I tried. I really did. But I can’t help it. Everything I see reminds me of him.

“I can actually hear you thinking about him.” Allie elbows me jokingly. “Is this guy really all you can think about?”

Yes.

“No. Of course not.”

“Why did we agree to come to Canada again?” Will whines.

“Because you love me.” I shoot him a smile.

Will gasps. “Oh my God.”

I frown. “What?”

“She smiles.”

I give out a quiet laugh. He’s right. I’ve had a scowl stuck to my face since this morning. But their visit really turned my mood around. When we pass a video game store, the guys say their goodbyes and enter the only store in the entire mall they’re actually interested in. I seize the opportunity when we lose them into the crowd.

I turn to Kass. “Okay, mind telling me what the hell happened between you and Will?”

“What do you mean?” She plays dumb.

“Please, I barely know you guys, and even I feel the sexual tension,” Allie remarks.

“What happened when he went back to you after he left that first week? Did you ever get back togeth—”

“Wait.” She cuts me off. “He left the first week?”

“Well, yeah. He was a mess the whole time. Then he just packed his things one morning and took off.”

Color spills from her features. “I… You mean to tell me he was back in Florida all summer?”