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He grabbed my chin, making me look at him. “How have you been, Bay?”
“I’m great.” I smiled. “Life couldn’t be any better. I’m living the dream. I’m so blessed?—”
“It’s me, Bay.” He moved his hand to caress my cheek with the back of his fingers. “I’m not looking for the rehearsed PR response.”
“It’s not.”
He lightly booped the tip of my nose. “You have become quite the little liar, haven’t you?”
I walked backward to the door, teasing, “I’ll never tell…”
“There you are,” Alexis announced, finding me walking out of the bathroom with Aires in tow.
“Huh.” She smirked, fully aware of who Aires was to me. “Nice hoodie. Let me guess, a quickie in the bathroom for old times’ sake?”
I rolled my eyes. “Funny.”
“Look what the cat dragged in,” she mocked, patting Aires on the chest. “To what do we owe the honor of the king’s presence?”
“Nice to see you too, Alexis.”
“This is like aKids Clubreunion!” she celebrated in a high-pitched voice.
Alexis was only on our show for a season when we were fifteen. It was actually how we met while Aires and I were there from the beginning of our eight-year run.
“This is perfect!” she squealed, bouncing up and down. “We can all reconnect! It’s so meant to be!”
“Alexis…”
“Oh, come on, Bailey. You promised you were going to.”
I grumbled, “I said maybe.”
“Maybe just became yes.”
Aires glanced back and forth between us with a curious smile. “What is she talking about?”
“Nothing.”
“It’s not nothing,” she countered, trying to open my purse.
“Alexis…”
“Stop being a party pooper, Bailey. Aires isn’t going to tell on you, and he’ll probably want to partake, so stop freaking out. He’ll be fine with it.”
“Be fine with what?” he questioned, his eyebrows pinching together as he kept his eyes on me.
Before I could answer, Alexis snatched the small plastic bag from my purse. “Found them!”
It was only then that Aires realized what she was talking about.
“Well, look at that.” He snickered, leaning against the doorframe in the hallway. “Little Miss McGraw is a lawbreaker.”
“Please,” Alexis teased, opening the bag. “We probably bought these from your dealer. Now open your mouth, Bailey.”
“Alexis—”
Aires interrupted me. “Are you rolling?”
