Total pages in book: 150
Estimated words: 147136 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 736(@200wpm)___ 589(@250wpm)___ 490(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 147136 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 736(@200wpm)___ 589(@250wpm)___ 490(@300wpm)
He wasn’t. Apparently the man who drives for a living got lost.
So now we were walking down the block a little ways in hopes of spotting him so we could all get home, which I was dying to do since I knew Brian would be waiting up for me and I couldn’t wait to talk to him more about anything and everything.
I loved our conversations. And now I knew he missed them when we weren’t having them.
The flip and twist was happening constantly as I thought about that.
“Maybe you should call him again,” Shay suggested beside me, giggling and dropping her head on my arm.
She was completely loaded. I was pretty certain we were all some level of drunk, but Shay was definitely leading the way with the most shots thrown back.
I felt great. Warm and a little numb all over. I wanted to lie on the sidewalk and gaze at the stars.
“He might be in front of one of these other bars and be waiting for us, like an idiot,” Kali pointed out, bringing us to a halt in front of a nameless bar I couldn’t focus on because the neon lights were too bright for me at the moment.
I squinted away and watched Tori slip out her phone and study it for a minute before dialing.
“Yeah, it’s me again. Where are you?” she clipped into the device, looking down the street and across it while she spoke.
“Are you kidding me? When? We stood out there for ten minutes waiting for you!”
I dropped my head back with a sigh.
“I’m drunk. I can’t track your location on a map! And you were supposed to text me when you arrived!”
“I really hate to pump and dump,” Kali admitted quietly, grabbing my attention and pulling my ears off Tori’s conversation. She bit her lip. “Do you think I’m a horrible mom for going out tonight?”
I shook my head. “No way. You’re so pretty.”
She smiled.
Shay giggled either because of us or something else. The girl was laughing at everything.
“Just head north on York Street and we’ll walk back. You can’t miss us.” Tori ended the call looking irritated as all get-out, then motioned for us to spin around and instructed, “Go back. He’s been waiting for us.”
“Ugh! What a jerk. He was supposed to text!” Shay hissed.
“Men are such idiots with technology,” Kali commented.
I pinched my lips together so I wouldn’t scream at the top of my lungs about Brian being awesome with technology.
It was torture keeping his awesomeness a secret.
We were walking back in the direction of the bar with Tori leading the way when she stopped dead without warning.
Shay and I stumbled a little, bumping into each other since we were the two walking mostly behind her. Kali was off to the side.
“What?” I asked, then moved in front of Tori when she didn’t react to my question, not with a response or even a jerk of her head. “What’s going on?” I pressed further.
I followed her gaze to the parking lot we were standing in front of, and I couldn’t be sure because I was drunk and also because there were a lot of vehicles filling that lot, but it looked like Tori was shooting daggers specifically at a sleek red sports car that was taking up two spaces.
Rude. I couldn’t stand it when people did that.
“Tori!”
My assumption was validated when I watched my best friend bolt down the sidewalk a few feet and follow the bend that swept into the parking lot, take to the asphalt and sprint in her four-inch heels to where the sleek red sports car was parked. She stood beside it and looked it over for a whole two seconds before attacking the passenger side window with fists flying.
She must’ve thought it was really rude.
“Oh, my God!” Kali screamed.
“T! What are you doing?” Shay called out.
I took off running after her and heard the girls on my tail. Shay’s heels mainly, but I knew Kali was with her. We got inside the parking lot and over to the car, and I wasted no time in grabbing on to Tori’s shoulders and yanking her away from the window.
“Sweetie! What are you doing? Stop!” I yelled.
Tori fought me, twisting in my arms and then leaping for the window again.
“Tori!”
“Let me go, Syd!”
I yanked her back again and maneuvered around her, putting myself between her and the window and holding my hands up to keep her back.
Tori rubbed the edge of her right hand like it was stinging. “Move, hon.”
“No way.”
“Sydney.” Tori stepped closer. It was then I saw the tears in her eyes. “Move out of the way.”
I kept my hands up and I didn’t move.
“Not until you tell me what the hell you’re doing and why you’re doing it.”
“It’s Wes.”
“What?” I asked, then it hit me.
“Oh, God,” Kali whispered.