Locked Box by Eve Dangerfield

Author:Eve Dangerfield [Dangerfield, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

JULIA climbed out of Mikayla’s hatchback, adjusting the straps of her floaty green dress so they lay directly over her collarbones. She was nervous as hell but she felt good. Extra alive. Tonight she was channeling Ash, which should be easy considering she was wearing her dress, makeup, shoes, and sporting her condoms.

“Are you sure about this?” Mikayla asked.

“Yes, I am. I’m going to walk up to the hottest guy at this party and I’m going to hit on him.”

“But why? You’ve had guys…” Mikayla looked around nervously. “Interested in you before.”

“Yeah but from the day I lost my v-plates right up ’til now I’ve never felt anything…I don’t know, passionate. And I know passion exists because I share a bedroom wall with Ash.”

“Ash’s boyfriends are gross.”

“True, but at least she has good sex. I have mediocre sex. Bordering on terrible.”

“And how does hitting on someone out of your league help?”

“I’m not attracted to the guys I sleep with. I only date them because they ask. I never take a chance on anyone who intimidates me and all hot guys intimidate me.”

Mickey looked less than impressed by her confession. “All hot guys intimidate me too, but it doesn’t mean I want to start talking to them.”

“We can’t just wait around for dudes to waltz up to us.”

“It’s just so scary, the idea of actually talking to a footballer or whatever. What if they laugh at us?”

“We just have to be confident. Which, judging from Ash, means sticking out your tits and laughing a lot.”

Mickey screwed up her nose. “Great.”

“Come on.” Julia grabbed her friend’s hand. “Let’s do this.”

Brett’s twenty-first started hours ago but she and Mickey were fashionably late, i.e. petrified of showing up while everyone was still sober. It was a big crowd and everywhere Julia looked there were men. She nudged Mickey. “Just think, somewhere in this paddock there are two ridiculously good-looking guys who’d like nothing more than to have sex with us.”

Mickey rolled her eyes.

They headed toward the drink coolers where Brett the birthday boy was lurking, a half-empty beer stein in his hand. “Little Bennett, aren’t you looking sexy?”

Julia immediately wished she had a jacket. “Thanks, Brett. Happy twenty-first.”

“Cheers. Where’s your sister?”

“At a gig with her boyfriend.”

Which was kind of a relief. Whenever Ash was around, Julia felt a bit unnecessary by comparison.

“That’s a shame. She promised me a special birthday present.” Brett finished his beer in one almighty swallow. “Wanna come see my room?”

Julia tried to think of a polite way to say “over my cold, deceased body” but luckily their not so lovely host was seized by a gang of footballers and dragged away to do twenty-one shots of Sambuca.

“What about Brett?” Mickey asked. “He’s cute and he was flirting with you.”

Julia groaned. “Not my type. Besides he’s about to do twenty-one shots. He’ll never get a hard-on again.”

She and Mickey collected a couple of ciders and began circling the party, talking with other girls they knew. Julia drained her bottle too quickly, half-listening to conversations while staring into the crowd.

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