Buried Castles by Monica Alexander

Author:Monica Alexander
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: alpha male, love, Romance, college, music, post high school, bad boy
Published: 2012-09-06T07:31:17+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Zack

“I don’t know what I was thinking,” I said, shaking my head as I slumped down on the couch.

In the kitchen, Kristin was making me the only thing she knew how to cook; a cheese and refried bean quesadilla. Poor Leo would go hungry with her cooking skills, but at least she could make one thing really well.

“You were thinking that you wanted to make a bold statement and surprise her,” Kristin said from the stove.

“I was thinking I’m a fucking idiot,” I said, letting my head fall into my hands.

I had followed Kristin to her former sorority’s fundraiser, because I literally had nothing better to do. Liar’s Edge had our first gig the next night, and my pent up nervous energy had been eating me alive all day. Ever since seeing Emily the week before, I’d done nothing but think about her. Between that and the gig, I’d been in danger of losing it. I’d even made Emily that stupid CD, keeping it in my truck, hoping I might run into her at some point. I was pathetic, so I decided to go out with Kristin to see if I could get out of my head for a while.

Then I find out that the sorority Kristin had been in when she’d been at Duke was the same sorority Emily is in at UNC. How do I know this, well, I walk into the club and see Emily dressed in a ridiculously sexy costume, kissing some guy dressed like Bon Jovi. I assume it’s her ex-boyfriend Ben, the guy she cheated on when she hooked up with me over the summer, who Jen said she was seeing again. But then I hear her friend Rachel call him Vincent, and I realize she’s making out with someone else, who’s not Ben, and I feel like punching the guy.

So I duck out of the club and drag Kristin with me before anyone can see us. Then I decide I have to make a grand gesture. I know, I’m a fucking moron, and I’ve probably been watching too many reruns of Friends with Kristin, because I think this is a good idea. I decide to get as close to the stage as possible in an effort to make my presence known, and then wait after to talk to her.

Not a good idea.

Emily did not look happy to see me. She looked stunned, then she looked pissed, and I realized it was because I’d put my arm around Kristin to pull her over to where I was standing in the crowd. I realized too late that it probably looked to Emily like Kristin and I were actually a couple, and I was throwing Kristin in her face. So I dropped my arm and watched the whole performance, mesmerized by Emily up on stage. Then I saw the guy she’d been kissing before the show grab her and swing her around, and I saw how happy she was. So I decided to just put the CD on her car, and then I bolted.

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