AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“You do?”
“Absolutely. Now, take a deep breath...”
Heidi obeys, audibly filling her lungs and blowing it back out. “Okay,” she says.
I smile. “It will be fine, Heidi.”
“I hope you’re right.”
“I know I am.” I step back onto the sidewalk of Greek Row. “Do you want me to swing by? Say the word and I’ll blow off this house meeting.”
She chuckles. “Brick will have your ass if you skip another one.”
“I don’t care. You need me, I’m there. That’s how this works.”
“No, I’m okay,” she says, her strength returning to her voice. “You go to the meeting and we’ll hook up after?”
“Yeah, I’ll come to your place,” I say. “I have a few things I’d like to say to your roommate, if you don’t mind.”
“Oh. Me, too. She hasn’t come back yet, but... she has to eventually.”
I nod. “I’ll see you soon, okay?”
“Okay,” she says. “Hey, Drew.”
“Yeah?”
“With a close call like this... I really think we should tell Seth sooner rather than later,” she says. “We might not be so lucky next time.”
I pause on the steps of Delta Xi. “Maybe you’re right,” I say, exhaling slowly. “We’ll talk about it tonight.”
“See you then.”
“Bye, Heidi.”
“Bye.”
She hangs up first. I lower the phone to my side as my guts get all twisted up inside. First, that morning Seth showed up at her house. Then, the entire fall out of the dance. Now, this?
Heidi’s right. Our next close call might be the one to hit its mark.
We said we’d cross that bridge when we had to.
Now is the time.
I open the front door and walk inside. My housemates pack the common area waiting for the house meeting to start. There are still a few minutes to spare. I can run upstairs, get changed, and?—
“Hey, Rose,” Brick bellows from the sitting room. “Get in here.”
I scan their faces, but the thoughts of my brothers remain hidden behind smirks and shadowed eyes.
The crowd parts as I step forward into the room, then immediately closes behind me to block me in.
That can’t be good.
I reach the middle of the room. Brick stands with his giant arms crossed and his square-shaped jaw tightly closed. Beside him, looking angry and dejected...
Seth.
