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“Don’t tell him. Ever.” Lucas says quickly.
“Ever, ever, never, ever.” Kai joins in.
Jay suddenly sits fully up. “I’m sorry are we talking about Sookie and sex again?”
“There was no sex.” I blurt. “Only, light, um, petting?”
Lucas’s laugh fills the room. “Sure, light petting is how lipstick gets in all the places and moves cars, all right.”
“YOU MOVED A CAR?” Jay shouts.
We all rush over to tackle him to the ground. He tries talking against our hands. All I hear is muffled screaming when Rae walks back in and sighs. “Why is it always you guys?”
“What?” Kai jerks back. “It’s because you have no choice but to be responsible, oh also that reminds me, they’re swapping the girls for more drama, you have Beth for the mystery date tonight, they’ll stage it that you got her.” He turns to me. “And you got your ex, congrats.”
I put my hands over my face and groan. “I’ll be on my best behavior.”
“What, um,” Rae leans down. “Really happened with her?”
Everything. “Nothing.” I lie. “Nothing worth mentioning.” Without truly ruining my career and life. “But, Rae, hold up for a minute.”
The rest of the guys slowly get up and walk out of the room leaving me and Rae alone. He shoves his hands into his white joggers, he always puts his hands in his pockets when he’s nervous.
“Nothing major.” I mean not for this subject. “Treat her well, she’s dying, as you know and this is like her final moment, I know I shouldn’t have kissed her and I’m sorry, I’ll write an apology if things get heated but she’s a really nice girl, honestly, I think you would really like her.”
Rae’s expression flickers a bit, his eyes go to the left. “She seems nice, probably not my type though.”
“You’d be surprised how she sneaks in.” On a rough exhale I pat him on the shoulder. “Promise?”
“Of course, just do me one favor on top of my promise.” He looks uncommittable. “Check in on Ari, make sure she’s okay? Something’s wrong and I know she’ll refuse to tell her brother.”
But sure, she’ll tell the guy she made out with last week. “Yeah, I’ll ask.”
“Thanks, Sookie. I don’t know what I’d do without you.”
My throat nearly closes completely. “Same goes for you.”
Chapter Fifteen
Ari
It’s going to be a horrible day.
I already know this after Director Simon tried to get two of the filming locations changed and approved after Sookie’s stunt last night, follow that up with Sookie’s text, and production scrambling and me trying to get permits for the places he wants to film and I already want to pass out at noon. We have two hours until shooting the dates, in their respective locations and I’m already sweating.
But the reason the day is going to be really, really bad is because of my last interaction with Sookie. Because honestly, that’s all that matters. I don’t know how I’m going to survive the day and the drama that it will no doubt bring.
My phone goes off.
Awesome.
Speaking of drama. And life sucking feelings. And the reason why I couldn’t sleep at all last night.
SK
Hey can we chat real quick?
My heart thuds against my chest.
