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“Yes.”
“Fine,” he grinds out. “What was that? What is going on with you and Angela? Why did she say goodbye to you like that?”
“It’s nothing,” I say, because he’s free to ask me but I’m not obligated to share. And I’m not sure I want Jamie’s opinion on this. He doesn’t know what it’s like. Sure, he and Cat might have dated other people for a while before they figured things out, but he’s nevernotbeen sure that she loved him. There’s never been a question that they’d end up together, especially now that they’re engaged.
“Don’t fucking do that,” he says, his curse surprising me. “Don’t do that evasive shit with me, not when you just spent five days stranded on an island alone with the woman you’ve been in love with since we were eleven.”
“That’s beside the point,” I tell him, digging my heels in.
“Oh please,” he says, sighing audibly. “You’re going to tell us about it whether you like it or not.”
“Us?”
“Yeah. Me and Hunter.”
“Where, exactly, are you taking me, James?”
“To your house,” he says innocently.
“And who am I going to find there when I arrive?” I grimace. Jamie has the keys to my house because he lived with me for a few weeks last year after him and Cat broke up for a bit and he moved out of his horrible father’s house.
“Just Hunter. And a few six packs. We just want to know what happened.”
I don’t demean myself by responding to that. I’ll tell them what happened with me and Angela when we’re back together and everything is settled.
Hunter has setup my living room like he’s ready for a full-on intervention.
There’s one chair in the middle of the room, which I assume is meant for me, and two other chairs are facing it. The curtains and blinds are all drawn shut, and I’m honestly surprised he hasn’t added straps to the chair to tie me down.
I take one look at it and turn on my heel to leave. Only to find Hunter blocking my path.
“We just want to talk.”
“You sound like you’re in the mob or something,” I grumble.
“And you sound like an asshole,” he shoots back. “We wouldn’t have to do all this if you would just tell us one thing about what’s going on or answer any of your texts.”
I feel slightly bad. I ignored him and Jamie hounding me for the last two days, asking me what was going on with Angela, and I only contacted them to let them know we were coming back today and wouldn’t need Captain Jones to pick us up.
“It’s not easy to explain,” I say, settling for honesty. “And I’m not sure where I’d even start. Or if you’d even want to hear the whole?—
“Hey, where were you when I left my dad’s house and had nowhere to go?” Jamie says, passing me a cold, open beer. “We want to hear the whole thing.”
“It’s just messy, and I, uh, I don’t know. I wanted to have a solution before I told you guys about it,” I admit, already feeling uncomfortable.
“Messy is exactly why you need to talk about it,” Hunter says firmly, and then starts ushering me into the living room.
“Can I at least sit on the couch?” I ask, pointedly avoiding the chair in the middle of the room.
“Sure, sure,” Hunter says.
I move the chair out of the way, and sit on the couch facing him and Jamie, who are both looking at me with expectant looks on their faces. For a moment, I feel really fucking grateful to have such good friends.
“So, uh, I guess I need to start at the beginning.”
“Oh my god,” Hunter says under his breath.
“So you know that party at the beginning of the summer when we were twenty? At Huddle’s Cove? Right before I did that internship.”
