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Resigned to my fate for the foreseeable future, I fixed my sunglasses on my face and looked around. Three pairs of eyes were on me and I immediately put my hands up and gave. “Fine, I’ll try to have some fun.” And that was the most they were getting out of me.
Unless they suddenly got us tickets to go to the theater to see the latest rendition of Romeo & Juliet that I heard was playing in South Florida. Now that was something I’d actually have fun doing.
“Try harder,” Coco commanded. “It’s our girl’s bachelorette party. She’s only getting married once, ya know?” Then she gave a squeal and clutched Sophie’s arm before placing it back on the steering wheel. “We’re going to be sisters!” Then she added, “I still can’t believe you’re marrying my brother.” She gagged. “Don’t tell me anything about your sex life ever! I. Do. Not. Want. To. Know.”
“You can tell me,” Daphne said. “But as happy as I am for you, it’s also such a bummer.” She frowned. “Who will be my wingwoman now?”
Sophie gave her a pouty look and took her sunglasses off for a moment. I spotted some tears and wondered if they were tears over not being able to go to a bar late at night where men were practically crawling the place to hit on innocent women or something else. I decided my sister couldn’t be serious about missing that life. She’d finally got everything Mom and Dad dreamed about for her. At least one of us wasn’t a disappointment to them. “I’m going to miss those days,” Sophie cried. “But I’ll be a married woman.” She put her sunglasses on and looked back at the road in front. “I’ll at least have to ask my hubby first.” Then they all broke out into laughter.
Daphne bent down and her crop top creeped up even higher, her back showing. She rummaged around in her purse that was on the floor and then took out a piece of gum and popped it in her mouth before grabbing another and offering it to me. “Want one?” she asked, chewing her own like her life depended on it.
I cleared my throat and waved my hand. “No, that’s okay, I think I’ll save the gum for later. You know, after we eat.”
Coco peered back and raised a brow. “After we eat?” She pointed at me and then looked at Sophie. “What’s she talking about?”
I answered before Sophie could explain my way of thinking I’d explained to her multiple times before. “I don’t like the aftertaste of food in my mouth. There’s a reason restaurants have mints at the door. So when you walk out, you grab one.”
“Or a dozen,” Coco jested. “I love those darn things!”
“Same!” Daphne cried. “I swear, I don’t know where they get those. The green are the best.”
“Spearmint,” I explained. “They’re spearmint.”
“Whatever,” Daphne said, looking out her side of the window as we came rolling to a stop at a red light. “I still don’t understand what that has to do with not having gum now,” she started, shaking her head. That was until something else caught her attention. “Hey, check it out, girls! Those guys in the Range Rover to our right are totally checking us out!”
Sophie giggled. “They are not!” She turned to look out her side.
“They so are!” Coco exclaimed, waving at the guy in the passenger seat.
Daphne raked her bottom lip through her teeth and seemed to be trying to hold back a giggle herself as she shouted, “Hey, handsome!”
The driver of the car opened his window while the passenger winked. They looked like they just came back from the beach because their hair was wet and they were wearing those little white tank tops men wore under their shirts. They were definitely coming back from the beach or a car wash, but seeing as they weren’t seventeen it was probably the former.
I looked forward and noticed the light turned green just as the car behind us honked. “Ugh,” Coco groaned. “Are they honking at me?”
“You’re going to get us killed. Go, Coco.”
I looked back and waved at them as if to say sorry, but didn’t know what it mattered because Coco hit the gas pedal while at the same time sticking up one of her hands and giving them the middle finger. As we continued driving and the car changed lanes, Coco scoffed. “Some people are so rude.”
Yeah, rude, I mused. Thankfully, we were getting on the highway in a few minutes and she’d be forced to pay attention. Or so I prayed. My life kind of depended on it, after all.
Clearly in her own head, not worried about her safety in the least bit, Sophie held up her hands and let out a shrill squeal I swore only dolphins could hear. “Wooo!” she yelled now, shooting her arms straight up in the air. She unbuckled and lifted herself up in her seat as she looked all around and shouted, “I’m getting married!” to any passerby that would listen. Technically, she wasn’t getting married this week, but you wouldn’t know that by how excited she was.
“Soph, sit down and put your seatbelt back on. You want to actually make it to your wedding day, don’t you?”
She settled back in and I heard the click of the seatbelt. “Party pooper,” she mumbled. “Haven’t you ever done anything fun and freeing?” she asked me, her voice getting louder as our speed picked up and so did the wind.
I looked skyward, thinking. It needed to be something good because I was much too mature for these girls and was starting to feel like the old, boring nanny around them. I had a few options, but didn’t really want to share the nefarious details of any random hookup I’d had. Then it hit me. “Of course!”
“When?” my little sister challenged.
I chuckled just thinking about it and how she’d regret doubting me. “When I was in college, I went to a rager.”Sophie gasped. “I didn’t know you went to a rager.”
Daphne leaned in. “Well, don’t leave us in suspense.”
I grinned. “Mmhmm. Okay, so there was like tons of alcohol and the music was real loud, and this guy came up and kissed me,” I paused before finishing, “out of the blue. I was just standing there, dancing with some of the other girls, and he walked over and kissed me. It was so wild.”
Coco looked back and raised a brow. “And?”
