Boys And Their Toys: A Dark High School Bully Romance (Troubled Playthings Book 1) by Tiffany Sala

Author:Tiffany Sala [Sala, Tiffany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“It wasn’t much of an accident,” Lucy said. “He was tooling around like he always does, swerved to avoid a cat of all things, and plowed himself into a pole. Really messed up someone’s front yard, but he didn’t kill anyone, so I guess that’s all right, huh?”

She glanced at me, and I wanted to shrivel up and disintegrate, sitting there in a mismatched jacket and pants, about as bogan as I could possibly be. Just needed some ugg boots and a ciggie to complete the picture. “Sorry, I’m completely frazzled, please be kind enough to ignore everything I have to say about him. Although he probably doesn’t deserve it.”

Lucy might well be frazzled, but aside from her jittery speech there wasn’t anything about her to show it. Her tracksuit was obnoxiously glamorous, her hair brushed, her hoop earrings—I mean, unless she had already been at a party at two in the morning, she’d been able to take the second to put those things in. She was truly on a whole other level to me.

“How did you know where to find me?” I asked.

“I didn’t really,” Lucy said, “but when we got in to see Lucas he kept babbling about you, and I know him a bit better than the parents so I managed to put the pieces together just enough. Came up with an excuse to sneak out, something I needed to take care of for uni. They were so distraught I don’t think it sank in that I wasn’t likely to have classes to prepare for at three in the morning on a Saturday anyway.” Her smile was clearly not something she had inherited from the same place as Lucas. I was glad of that, right now. My head was in a weird place as it was, without any obvious reminders of just who I was in a car with. I couldn’t let myself think about how badly Lucas might be injured or what the accident meant in terms of him leaving me behind, or what I was even doing in Lucy’s car going to the hospital with her. I just had to let everything happen for the moment.

Then one startling detail sank in. “Three in the morning?”

“Well, it’s past five now,” Lucy said. “I’m sorry, it did take me a while to find you, but I can only do so much on the word of an idiot hyped up on pain medication. You weren’t anywhere near where he ended up smashing himself up.”

I turned to stare out at the lightening sky around us. It was nearly morning—I’d been walking for hours, and I hadn’t realised. Time certainly flies when you’re out of your goddamn mind with fear.

Lucy shot me a perfect raised eyebrow. “I will say, it must have been some fight. What a place to leave someone in the early hours of the morning.”

“We’re not, um…” I was filled with dread at the sudden thought of Lucy having the wrong idea, and hauling me in there introducing me to Lucas’s parents as his girlfriend.

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