Fifteen Nights by Zoe Lee

Author:Zoe Lee [Lee, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Foolish Endeavors, LLC
Published: 2017-01-24T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

MAY

Leda

“I feel like shit,” I complained as I slumped in Jesse’s passenger seat. “The fever’s gone and I’m not coughing, but I’m so tired, I couldn’t even go to yoga yesterday. I love yoga.”

“Yeah, summer colds are bitches,” Jesse agreed. “You don’t have to do any work when we get there. You can sit around and yell at everyone.” She looked at me out of the corner of her eyes and added dryly, “Just like you were planning on doing today anyway. Minus the drinks.”

I huffed out a rough laugh, my throat still sore from the coughing.

It was the end of May and Tristan was going to graduate from MIT in just under two weeks, so we were all hard at work on his present. To Tristan’s rich genius classmates, I was sure being one of two project managers at Houston Architecture & Construction Company seemed like an incredible waste of his education. But Tristan wanted to be there, to work for his grandfather where Emmett’s own grandfather had started a masonry business.

So, a lot of us had gotten together to turn his unused garage into a workshop. Emmett, Moira and her husband, and a bunch of Emmett’s employees had put in electricity, insulation, and heat. My brothers, Chase, Dunk and Munn had put up drywall and redone the floor. Jesse and I had ordered industrial shelving units, which were stacked in the back of Jesse’s truck waiting to be unloaded and assembled. Tristan’s mom and her brother were scouring estate sales and resale shops and the like for used tools that were still in good shape.

“Hey,” Jesse said as we turned onto Tristan’s street, “did you know Jamie’s over there?”

A muscle in my head started to throb. “I did not,” I said with calm precision.

Jesse pulled over smoothly and threw the truck into park. “What’s going on?”

I slumped down even further and dug my fingers into the bridge of my nose, trying to relieve some of the pressure. “It’s been kind of weird since Charleston,” I mumbled.

“Why?” she asked. When I refused to answer, she tugged my hands away from my face and gave me a level, serious look. “I know it wasn’t a fight, you hardly get worked up about a fight once it’s blown itself out. So did he do something crazy like ask you out?”

“He didn’t ask me out!” I exclaimed at the same pitch as a hysterical teenager denying she had a crush.

Jesse heaved a sigh, which was about the same as me reaming someone out at top volume in public. “That was a completely sarcastic question, but thanks for flipping out at it. So then… What. Did. He. Do. Leda?” she pushed, throwing up her hands. “It was a month and a half ago!”

I knew that I was making it into a way bigger deal than it had been, than it should be.

“He…”

Everything was like a blur now. The long drive to Charleston, talking like we had those times before we’d started sleeping together.

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