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“I don’t know. Maybe the sun, like, eroded them or something. I don’t know. Plus, I just made this huge road trip. Twenty-two hours of driving, even with breaks and stuff isn’t great for them, I guess. Or maybe it was the rocks. Seattle is probably full of sharp rocks.”
“You’re not in Seattle anymore,” June growled. It was their inside joke, for them all to bug June about where she lived, even though it was pretty amazing too. They all loved to visit her.
“Yeah, okay, so it’s the country. I told you I wasn’t cut out for camping.”
“Dude, we’re glamping.”
“Or that.”
“Where are you? I can come get you.”
“I don’t know. I just passed a sign for this little village about twenty minutes ago. Greenacre or something?”
“I know exactly where that is.”
“It’s not like you could miss me if you just head back down the road. I’m here, sitting on the side of it.”
“Do you have a spare?”
“Of course I have a spare. Dad would lose his mind if I didn’t leave completely prepared with the spare, the tools, the survival kit.”
“Do you think you can change it?”
Shit. She’d practiced this with her dad when she was sixteen and learning how to drive. He’d made sure they all knew how to change a flat, check the oil, troubleshoot minor problems, and do basic maintenance on their vehicles. It was too darn bad that sixteen was twenty-five years ago for her.
“I could try.” If the cell reception was good, the internet probably worked. She could get on there and get a video going and let someone else tell her how to do it. It probably wasn’t that hard. She did remember her dad’s advice to step on the tire iron to get the bolts off. Step on ithard.
“Wait for me,” June said. There was rustling in the background. “I’m getting my coat and boots on now. I’ll be there in half an hour. Just put your hazards on, lock your doors, and wait. We can figure it out together.”
“Okay. It’s not like I’m going anywhere.”
“Very funny.”
“I wasn’t trying to be. I’m serious.”
“It was more the super dry way you said it that I was talking about.”
January had to smile. God, even with a flat tire it was good to be here. She’d missed June. A lot.
Maybe with their sister time together, out in the middle of nowhere, she could finally find the words to explain what had gone so wrong in her marriage. Maybe she’d be able to explain to herself why she just wasn’t into it anymore when everyone thought her life was pretty much perfect.
That was the generally the problem. Everyone else saw perfection while the one who was supposed to be experiencing it was only experiencing that perfection on the surface. It was the underside of that perfect, placid life where things got murky and muddy.
“January?”
“I’m here, don’t worry. I’ll wait for you, and we’ll get this puppy back to rights in no time.”
What was the worst that could happen?
Didn’t everyone think that before a major disaster?
Chapter 2
Tavish
“One day you’re going to find someone and you’re going to fall so hard and fast you won’t know what happened to you. Whiplash. That’s what’s going to happen. Bam. Head. Whipped. Whiplash. Lovelash. All the lashes.”
Even though he and Kier had been friends since they basically entered the world, that didn’t mean he couldn’t be annoying. Or maybe it was because they were friends that he was so annoying. There was no escaping a person who knew you better than you knew yourself.
