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“Where is the lucky lady then?” I plastered on a s through with it, I’d sure as hell back him up

“She should be here soon She had to do so by” The nervous energy vibrated off him like at any second he would be consumed by his excitement to be with her How can I not support him if that is how she makes him feel?

“Speak of the devil” Her ringtone blared from his pocket The s He answered the call “Hey, babe” Then his eyebrows scrunched down “Avery? Avery? I think she butt dialed lanced up at me “I can hear the music from downstairs”

“Let’s go find her then”

He didn’t even hear me “Avery?” He took off down the hallway before I could say anything else

I closed his bedroo him Emmett took the stairs three at a time and was practically at the bottom before I even hit the top step People flowed up and down the stairs, laughter, drunken woos, and general debauchery all around Beer and chlorine overpowered every other smell in the place

I rounded the bottolanced to the side, where I spotted one of the last people I’d expected actually show up, looking exactly as I’d expect her to at a place where people were having fun Like a sainst the wall under the stairs while so the fun sucked out of thes out of Harry Potter

“Give your friend a break, Books Let her have some fun before you drain the life out of this party” I meant it to colare showed me that perhaps my quip hadn’t hit its mark like I’d hoped

“Fuck you, Declan!” Her voice came out harsher than it usually did Usually it was detached annoyance, but noas filled with a burning anger Her step faltered a bit, but she caught herself on the wall I reached out a hand to steady her, and she slapped it away “I don’t need your help” She stood straight and crossed her ar her tits up in her low-cut top I glanced down out of reflex I ht there

The sound that ripped out of her throat had ry finger at me

“You think that everything is a joke, don’t you? You think that life’s easy and fun and why doesn’t everyone just float along like you do and do whatever the hell they want”

Talk about a blowup out of nowhere Everyone was there having fun, and she had to come in and try to steamroll everyone with her saintly bullshit

“I’ you should chill out and have fun for once” I was used to our jabs, but she was going a bit crazy

“How do you know I don’t have fun? Maybe it’s the fact that your idea of fun and mine are extremely different”

“I have no doubt about that” I crossed htened