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He stared at eme and—

Then Cooper burst out laughing Not hateful, enuine amusement

“Stop it!”

He laughed harder, holding up a hand

“Calm down,” he finally said

“I can’t believe I told you that,” Iif I could make a break for the door I mean, the situation was so aard already—was it even possible to make it worse?

Cooper shook his head, grinning at me “So you fucked a stripper—they’re people, too, you know There are uglier crimes”

I groaned, rubbing ain You started it, now finish it

“It gets worse,” I admitted “Maybe half an hour later, the roo for more booze Carrie and I had hit a liquor store that afternoon, and the backup stash was in the bedroouy and they’re all staring atI know, Heather whips out her phone and starts fil”

Cooper’s eyes widened “You have a sex tape floating around out there?”

“Yesss” I admitted very quietly “And that’s not all”

“Jesus, and I thought it was funny before,” he said, shoulders shaking I glared at hihter “Hey, I don’t care that you have a sex tape Huossipy prudes around here want to admit Why should you be ashamed of it?”

I just shook my head, because obviously Cooper and I had very different definitions of the word “shame”

“Anyway, they’re all laughing at uy jumps up and tells them to leave Then all of sudden I hear Maisy’s voice, and she is pissed—her aunt owns the Hungry Chicken don, it’s not far fro at me and I’ether The guy I slept with? He was her cousin, Jaot divorced and he moved to Spokane to live with his dad I used to babysit hie I hadn’t seen hi that tinized him! Not only that, Heather texted the damned video to half the town I still don’t kno many people watched it or who has copies Guess who isn’t welcory Chicken anymore?”

Cooper leaned back in his chair, raising a brow

“You fucked up”

“Yeah, I fucked up,” I agreed, seriously considering crawling under the table “I had no idea, Cooper None I was drunk as hell and he kept co on to me Turns out he’s had a crush onWhen he saw o for it Maisy wasn’t there when he first showed up—she was drunk and puking back in her own roonize him The rest is history I’m the tohore who seduced the innocent kid I used to babysit The only good thing is that the Braeburns ed to shut it down fast—I , but so far as I can tell nobody uploaded it online or anything, so I guess I have that going for me Oh, and Maisy was so pissed at Heather that she still won’t talk to her The whole thing was beyond crazy”