Hidden Creek Now (Hidden Creek Jett & Julia Book 2) by Jaxson Kidman

Author:Jaxson Kidman [Kidman, Jaxson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-19T16:00:00+00:00

Young, dumb bitch trying to take everything.

That stuck with me.

We sat shoulder to shoulder at the open back door, smoking, sipping coffee laced with whatever I had hidden in a desk drawer.

Vodka and coffee had an interesting taste, but the side effects were what we both needed.

“I had my first cigarette after I won the high school science fair in ninth grade. I beat out all the nerds. All the kids that had been working for years on doing something great. And I was just some bitchy ninth grader.”

“What was your project?”

Whitney looked at me. “Theory of gravity. It was really fucking cool. I won’t explain it all.”

“Good. I’m too dumb for that stuff,” I said. “Other than knowing gravity makes it so I don’t float away. Which… after another cup of my special coffee, I just might do that…”

Whitney laughed. “How much vodka did you put in these?”

“A little.”

“Liar.”

So I might have dumped most of the coffee out… oops.

“So you wanted to be a rebel then and now,” I said.

“It’s a stupid curse. And you’re totally right, Julia. I should open my own business. I have the time and the money to do it. But everything in my life that has been… should. My parents used me as their only good thing in their lives. That’s a lot of pressure to live under.”

“Yeah. That sucks.”

“It sucks big time. So I do my little things. Like smoking.”

“Got it,” I said.

“I’m almost not stupid.”

“You’re far from stupid.”

“I know you’re dying to know why I put all that stuff together for the food truck.”

“Yup.”

“My friend…”

“Friend?”

“Friend,” Whitney said, lifting an eyebrow.

“Oh. That friend.”

“Yeah. Him.”

“Things go south?”

“Plane never got off the tarmac.”

I laughed. “Whitney, what did you think would happen?”

She frowned at me.

I touched her shoulder. “Shit. Sorry.”

“You’ve been holding that in, huh?”

“No.”

“Stop lying to me.”

“Fine. That kind of thing never ends well.”

“And I know that, Julia.”

“But it’s hurting you,” I said.

“It’s hurting me because he has a girlfriend.”

“What a dick.”

“No,” Whitney said. “He didn’t have a girlfriend while we were together. He had… whatever. But he made his choice, I guess. I don’t know. Feelings grew with someone and he did the right thing. He didn’t play anyone or anything like that.”

“But you liked him.”

“No,” Whitney said.

I tilted my head. “Then what was it?”

“The other bitch. She said I was dumb. That I was young. That I was going to take everything away. Like who the fuck are you to say that about me?”

“Wow. She really said that?”

“Yeah,” Whitney said. “I went to talk to him. Right? Just to… I don’t know. And he was open and honest. I was kind of there for a different reason.”

“Right.”

“I appreciated his honesty. And then this… thing came out of nowhere.”

“She was there too?”

“She showed up. I guess she felt I was stepping in?”

“Okay, so he is a dick then.”

“You know what? He is a dick. A big dick. No. He doesn’t get credit for that. He’s a totally mediocre, average dick.”

I laughed. “Good. Give me that cup.

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