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"You are so sweet Thank you!" I exclai about drinking it, and I needed all the coh supplies to last us a couple days," she said, pulling a bunch ofbottle of Three Olives vodka "And if you get your appetite back, we can always order pizza, too"

I glanced at the dresser and realized she’d left her phone here while she was out "You didn’t bring your phone with you? That’s not safe, Aubrey! What if you’d had car trouble?"

"Oh please I know everyone in town If I’d had any problems, someone was bound to find me, or I could have walked to the closest house and called for help It’s no biggie Besides, I was only gone for like thirty s and back at Aubrey "Thirty minutes? The store is only a couple blocks away, and Dairy Queen is right next door"

She looked at rab a couple things, but I changed ot there"

"Why?" I asked, confused by her answer "What could have possiblyback to ca outside the dor lot I didn’t want to run into him, and I certainly didn’t want him to see me because then he’d want to knohere you were"

"Drake was there?" I shrieked, stunned Just hearing his name hurt

"Yes Parked right at the curb with the engine running"

I sat back down on the bed and glanced at my phone "That means he wants to talk to me"

Aubrey picked up my phone, tossed it into her purse, and zipped it shut "It won’t hurt hiive him time to understand how badly he hurt you And you need so you this back until SundaySo don’t even try to convinceyet If you guys stay together, you need to make sure he understands that you won’t put up with crap like this You’ve heard my mom’s advice on relationships alo on," we said in unison, wagging our fingers at each other just like her ht I don’t even knohat he could say that would ivable, but I can’t talk to hiure out what I want to do God, Aubrey… He made me fall in love with him and then he crushed me Shatteredto move on from this?"

"I’uess Tonight, don’t even think about it Let’s just hang out, watch rabbed swi out in the hot tub Don’t ret until you’ve had tireement "Butto findit away fro And none of your puppy-dog eyes later either A day and a half isn’t going to kill you, especially after stor out the way you did You’re too much of a softie, so leave it to me to be your backbone this tiht and all of the next day doing anything but talking about ed to polish off the bottle of vodka and then passed out to sleep it off I tried a couple ti es, but she wouldn’t hear of it She kneell enough to know that I wouldn’t be able to resist calling him Even while drunk, she insisted that a total coe an inch

chapter 15

Sundayat the ceiling for a while after I woke up My sto to have to face everything today I was glad that Aubrey had made me wait since I was a lot caler, too

I rolled over to find Aubrey watchingto help h this mess I was so lucky to have her in my life