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“It’s really e my plate to the side
“The best stories usually are,” he said, grinning at me “Tell me I’ll even bribe you”
He stood and walked over to the fridge, pulling out a giant, fancy cupcake balanced inside a do the cover, he set it in the center of the table
“That thing’s huge,” I said, laughing
“Yeah, women say that to me a lot,” he replied, deadpan
“You’re terrible”
“No, the general consensus is that I’ his mouth to quirk “See? That’s so lame I’m humiliated and ashamed of myself Now you have no excuse not to share your story”
I bit h at him
“Confession is good for the soul,” he prodded
“Okay,” I replied, wondering if I could really go through with it But he’d hear it all sooner or later anyway Almost everyone in town knew already “You have to proe me”
“You got it”
“So I left h tiet into details, but I’d fallen into a sluain Four ot an invitation for a bachelorette party in Olyh school with reen State”
I paused, staring at the cupcake Could I really tell him this?
“And?”
“All right, so Carrie and I drove down together, and a big group of us met up at the hotel for the party Rented a suite and everything It was aluests oreith but hadn’t seen for years We all o, all except for Carrie, Heather Brinks—she’s Margarita’s cousin like ten tiarita’s mom made us invite her anyway—and Maisy Braeburn, who invited herself along with Heather They were bitches back then and they’re bitches now, and it never occurred to us that they’d actually show their faces Anyway, that night everyone went dancing, and eventually we landed back at the hotel around three in thesick, so she went back to her rooathered in the suite That’s when the strippers showed up”
Cooper smirked I felt my cheeks start to heat up
“They did their dancing thing, and ere all laughing and having a great ti on me Now, he was pretty to look at, but I felt sort of weird perving on him because he was probably twenty-one at al Not only that, he looked sort of familiar but I couldn’t quite place him Then he invitedI kneere back in one of the bedroo body shots off ot real friendly real fast”