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“It’s okay.” I gathered her thick blonde hair and held it up while she retched again. “I know.”
“Why?!” Piper demanded when she could gulp air again. Her shoulders slumped before she threw up a third time.
If I hadn’t seen it with my own two eyes, I wouldn’t have believed it. I didn’t even want to believe it. How stupid was that? It wasn’t like Xavier had enlisted in a tongue-wrestling competition with a hot brunette at the bar. There was no rational explanation.
We just saw June. She hadn’t dyed her hair since then.
Piper stumbled away from me and sank to the porch’s steps. I made her promise she wouldn’t try to crawl home and bought a water bottle from the bar.
And snap a picture of Xavier. He didn’t even notice.
Motherfucker.
After the conference was said and done, after everything finished, and we were back at Marrs University, I had to tell June.
Except I’d never been in that position before. I’d been in the photos, where girls pieced it together themselves. Not knocking on doors to ruin weekends. What the hell am I going to tell June?
“What are we going to say?” Piper whispered, taking a small sip of water.
“Let’s keep this quiet until after the conference,” I said, sitting next to her on the porch. Piper gave me a long look that I couldn’t figure out. I frowned. “What?”
“We need to say something.”
“Right now?”
“I can do it.”
“No, that’s not a good idea.” I ran my hand over my face, trying to sober up. “Ice princess, we weren’t drinking fruit juice in there. We can’t…can’t we wait until the conference is over? Tell her when we get back to Marrs?”
Piper stared back at the ground. “The conference is over, Adam.”
Yeah. It was.
Shit.
I called a taxi and paid in cash, the only money I was certain Cleo couldn’t track. No doubt they were keeping a close eye on my bank statements, to make sure I didn’t dip out of the conference and get into some dumb shit. Well, I had no intention of proving their suspicions correct. The only thing I could think of in the back of that cab was the conversation ahead.
“What are we going to say?” I sighed, leaning back against the seat.
Piper pressed her lips together and gazed out the window. “I don’t know.”
Campus was quiet. No one walked the sidewalks as Piper and I fell into an uncomfortable silence. We were way too shit-faced to come up with anything good.
“Hey?” Piper grabbed my arm when we approached their door, her face ashen. “You’re right. Let’s give her the night.”
I shook my head. “No, this is…we have to do this.”
“I think I’m too drunk—”
“You’re fucked-up, dude.”
Piper squeezed her eyes shut. “I’ve never…oh my god. What are we doing?”
“Guys?” Zariah opened the door, with her hair up in a towel. She yawned. “What’s up? The meeting just ended. Want to watch a movie?”
I rolled back my shoulders, trying to feel more sober than I actually was. “We need to talk to June.”
“What? Why?”
