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Noondering if paying for new ones made me look like a lunatic

I wished I could text Lily to get her opinion, but it ay past her bedtime She’d be up at the ass crack of daith Gray, and she’d be working fro books for like five different co at a desk all day, even if her desk was at hoot to pick her hours

I sighed and openedabout it, the perfect payback would come to me

Cleaning off the door hadn’t been as bad as I’d expected, but it had taken forever, so I’d still bitched about it to anyone who could hearthat soa Mack on By Friday, I still hadn’t figured out what I was going to do to pay hi er I waited, the ot It worked out perfectly

When I showed up at the club, I was glad to see that they’d decided to barbecue Sometimes it was strictly booze and whatever snacks you could pilfer fro the suenore the nervous anticipation that I absolutely refused to acknowledge

I’d partied with Mack a hundred tiht wasn’t any different from any other party, even if ere in theto change

I still took h, telling myself that I wanted to appear completely unconcerned with our new relationship No, not relationship Our new… shit, I didn’t even know the right word for it Relationship i of a romantic nature, and that was not this New friendship? No, that wasn’t right, either We’d been friends before all of this started

I was so busy arguing with ht into a muscular chest and almost fell flat on my ass

“Whoa there, space cadet,”me before I fell

“Sorry,” I said, returning his s”

“Clearly” He laughed “What’s up? So?”

“Nothing’s wrong,” I replied quickly,

“Uh huh,” he murmured, unconvinced

“No, really,” I said, shakingis wrong I was just thinking”

“That’s never a good thing”

“Ha-ha,” I said dryly

“You planning out your next attack?” he asked curiously, lighting up a joint and offering it to me