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Layla gasps and h for me to see her tear stained cheeks and bloodshot eyes They’re too red and puffy for her to have just started crying So happened Shit

Layla runs past ainst my arm as she disappears to God-knohere Sa after her and points behind hiht She likes you, even if she won’t come out and say it yet And what do you do?” He pauses, likely waiting for nore her the moment Amanda shows up”

“I don’t give two shits about Amanda”

“Yeah?” Sam chortles “Well you could have fooled me Layla saw you sneak into a back room with her I did too”

I feel one to shit Between the drama with Ao home If Sam wants to be with Layla so badly, she can stay at his house I irl, but I don’t play with cheaters “A shit, as usual, but Layla came here with me and then kissed you She was the unfaithful one, not me”

I turn to leave, but Sarabs my arm “I convinced Layla to dance with me because she downed two shots of tequila faster than Landon finishes, and we both know his longest lay is threeand that bartender was more than happy to enable her I kissed her and she pulled back, more upset than before because she orried so, she didn’t want to upset you Then your shitty ass co like a jealous prick” Sahten up before I steal your girl for real”

My stoo replaced with sha at the roots I need to feel soht I could have had with Layla is tu this up, aren’t I?”

“Majorly” Sam rests his hand on my shoulder and looks ot a chance, if you let Hattie run dae control”

“That’s probably a good idea” I sigh and pull Sam in and clap hi if I want to save whatever this is we’ve got going, and Hattie ant answers too “Thanks, irl, I appreciate you looking out”

“Anytime” Saet her!”

Sitting on the sticky floor of the handicapped stall in the girl’s bathrooht Yet, here I a the makeup that I worked so hard to make perfect

“Layla? Are you in here?” a voice echoes “It’s Hattie”

I suck in a breath, desperate to choke back my tears and be as quiet as possible I don’t want to talk I want to curl into a ball and disappear

My first real date is a disaster I didn’t think anything could be worse than going into anaphylactic shock in the middle of my parents country club the day they announced Ashley and I were in love, but this takes the cake

With Ashely, I orried about e the partnership they’d worked years to forge through us Tonight, I feel naive and betrayed by both Josh and Sam