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I toweled off, thinking of the band we were going to meet. I’d seen picture of them, and I’d always had a bit of a secret celebrity crush on the bassist, Carter. He had this bad-boy look about him that made me tingle in all the right places.
I threw my hair in a braid and pulled on my favorite pair of jeans before grabbing my things and going to pick up Lacie. She lived a short drive away from me, which was good because we spent almost all our time together.
She came out of her house with her blonde hair streaming behind her in a golden mane and that effortlessly beautiful look that she had. She jumped in my rusty old Chevy and slammed the door.
“Hey,” she said, smiling.
“Hey,” I replied. “Good night last night?”
She shrugged. “Just stayed home with Mom. Thanks for picking me up, I really appreciate it.”
“Oh stop it, Lacie,” I said. “If you thank me every time I give you a lift you’re going to wear yourself out.”
Lacie chewed her lip and nodded. Her mom was sick—brain cancer—and Lacie had had to sell her car to save up for the down payment of this new experimental treatment. She was broke as f**k, and I wished I could help more than just driving her around when she needed it.
“Well, today is a big day,” I announced, pulling into the street. “We meet our future husbands. Brunch is on me, to celebrate.” And also because I knew she couldn’t afford it.
Lacie laughed. “Future husbands?”
“You never know. Shoot for the moon, and all that.”
“I never understood that expression.”
“What’s that?” I asked.
“The ‘shoot for the moon’ expression. ‘Shoot for the moon. Even if you fail, you’ll land among the stars.’”
“… Yeah?” I asked, glancing at her and grinning. Sometimes I wondered how we’d become such good friends, because half the time it was like we were from different planets.
“Well,” she said slowly, as if she were explaining it to someone incredibly dense. “The moon is a lot closer than the stars. So if you’re shooting for the moon, you’ll never make it all the way to the stars.”
I tried to contain my laughter. “Well, maybe they mean if you overshoot your aim and miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
“You’d have to seriously overshoot. Like by multiple orders of magnitude.”
“I think you’re missing the point, Lacie,” I said, finally breaking down and laughing. “The point is that we’re going to meet our future husbands tonight, in the form of three sexy-as-hell musicians with a bad-boy streak.”
Lacie grinned. “Right, sorry,” she said, rolling her eyes. “That’s just always bugged me.”
“You’re a pedantic weirdo, you know that?”
She looked at me sideways and I laughed.
“But that’s why I love you.”
My phone buzzed in the console between us and Lacie looked down.
“Seth is still bothering you?”
“Ugh.”
“Was he calling you last night? Why don’t you just block him?”
“I tried,” I said. “He got a new number and kept calling me.”
“That is so weird and stalkerish.”
“I know.”
