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While she spoke, I reached behind us, going into the back seat as I grabbed her backpack full of clothes. I gave her a strange look as she pulled the rust bucket onto the main road. I honestly didn’t see how any costume, let alone two, could fit inside her backpack with her normal clothes and her toothbrush and all that.
And for her mom to have brought it home…
As long as we weren’t dressing up as some lame office supplies, I was down for it. I guess. It wasn’t like I could tell Kelsey no and forbid her from going out. She’d go out regardless, so I best go with her to make sure she was safe and didn’t make any stupid decisions, hooking up the only stupid decision I’d let her make.
“Kelsey,” I started, but she hushed me by telling me where to look.
“Front pocket,” she said, keeping her eyes on the road. I’d have to tell her which parking lot to park the rust bucket in, but that would come after.
What I pulled out made me question my friend’s sanity, and also mine. Because what. The. Hell?
I took out two rectangular stickers. Two inches by four, lined in red. On the top, they stated boldly, Hello, My Name Is… and had a big white area where you were supposed to write your name.
“These are our costumes?” I asked, wanting to both laugh and cry at the state of my life. I loved Kelsey, I did, but this was a bit on the ridiculous side. “Stickers. We’re going to wear stickers? You know any party around here is going to have tons of rich kids in costumes that cost more to insure than this car?”
“Oh, yeah, I’m betting on it. I’m hoping to find someone with at least a decent sense of humor. A man has to make me laugh before taking me to pound-town.” Kelsey flashed me her pearly whites, and I nearly died laughing.
God, it was good to have her back. To see her, to be in her presence. I missed her so much, I didn’t even realize it until now. Kelsey was my sanity, my slightly slutty and silly sanity, and I adored her for it.
“I’m all for getting us equal dick, but I think you should be my wingwoman first—”
Well, at least we were getting this conversation out of the way before we got back to the dorm. I did not need Declan hearing any of this. This was strictly between us two girls, and it would remain that way until we died.
“I’ll be your wingwoman, but I…” I bit the inside of my cheek, not knowing what to say. “Let’s just make it about you, okay? I don’t need any.” In fact, I probably had more dicks available to me than I could juggle, so any more dick was currently off the table. I’d make do, as long as I lived through Ray.
Hard to say, at this point, because the bastard himself hadn’t shown his face since the night of the accident.
I directed Kelsey where to park, and soon we were heading up the elevator, back in the dorm. Declan was already home, his father having dropped him off sometime while we were at dinner. He must’ve just showered, as his hair was wet…but at least he was clothed. With how desperate Kelsey was to forget what was going on back at her school, I knew that if she saw any cute boy shirtless, let alone pant-less, she just might lose it.
Kelsey pushed her way inside the room first, offering her hand to Declan in a greeting he would not be able to run from. “I’m Kelsey,” she said, shifting the backpack on her shoulders as she waited for him to shake her hand. “You must be the cute roommate, Declan.”
Cute? Oh, shit. I needed to have a talk with her, ASAP. She could not go around calling Declan cute all weekend. It would only give him the wrong idea—namely, that I’d called him cute. Which I had, but I didn’t need him to know that.
“Uh, yeah,” Declan started, glancing at me with his dark stare. My insides did a few somersaults, and I mentally scolded myself: now is not the time to remember what we did earlier. In fact, forget all about it.No more Declan dick.
“Good to meet you,” Kelsey went on. Once they were done shaking hands, she turned to me with a stupid smile on her face. “He’s so cute, Ash. I can totally see why you’re keeping him to yourself.”
My face flushed at her insinuation that I was purposefully keeping Declan to myself by not sending her a picture of him. She just didn’t know when to quit, did she? Then again, that was one of the reasons why I loved her so much.
She heaved a sigh as she set her bag down on my bed. “I have to pee,” she said, shooting me a look, then Declan. Declan was shocked at her forwardness, his mouth hanging slightly agape. “Just thought you guys should know,” she added with a shrug as she went to the bathroom. The moment she closed the door, she spoke loudly, “Hey, this is actually pretty clean. I’m surprised.”
I let out a chuckle as I glanced to Declan. He was busy watching me like I was the most interesting thing he’d ever seen.
“Cute, huh?” he asked quietly, a small smile growing on his face.
“Yeah, well, don’t let it go to your head.”
“Never,” he swore, still grinning ear to ear like an idiot. Thanks, Kelsey.
I folded my arms across my chest and gave him an unimpressed look, though that look soon lessened in its severity. I asked, “How’s Will?” I shouldn’t care; I knew I shouldn’t, but I did.
“He’s doing okay. Doctors are going to let him go this weekend. My dad now wants him to go live with him, but he’s refusing.” Declan shook his head, leaning on the wall behind him. “He’s stubborn, and he wants to go back to his apartment.”
“You can’t blame him for that. That’s his place. I’d want to go back to my place too, even if that’s where it happened.” I understood Will’s need for his own place more than he could possibly know.
Declan pursed his lips. “He asked about you again.”
I tried to pretend as if Will asking about me didn’t matter. “He did? Why?”
