One for the Road (Barflies Book 3) by Katia Rose

Author:Katia Rose [Rose, Katia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-28T23:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

DeeDee

SOUR: term used to describe a drink made with a lime-flavoured mix

I pull the green-stained gloves off my hands and throw them into the trash in Zach’s bathroom.

“Okay, ma belle, now we wait.”

Hope beams at me before jumping up off the toilet seat to check her hair out in the mirror.

“This is so cool! I’ve always wanted to do this.”

Zach pokes his head into the doorway. “I can’t believe I let you dye my sister’s hair green.”

Hope walks over and punches him in the arm. “One: you don’t get to let me do anything. Two: it’s teal, not green. How many times do I have to tell you?”

Zach picks up a piece of her hair, and Hope smacks his hand away. “It looks pretty green to me.”

“That’s because the dye is still on—and don’t touch it! You’re going to wreck it. Right, DeeDee?”

I watch the two of them argue and joke around the same way I used to watch the sibling characters in TV shows when I was a kid, after my sister got taken away. I would sit in front of our old box of a television and repeat all the lines, acting out the same body language. I’d imagine what it would be like to have someone I could tease and hug and tackle whenever I wanted. Even now, I feel like I’m memorizing everything Zach and Hope say, soaking it up and storing it away like I do with Zach’s stories about his home town.

“I said: right DeeDee?”

“Ah, ouais, right.” I follow the two of them into the living room. “Don’t touch it, Zach, you dork. You will wreck it.”

Hope sits down on the couch, perching at the front of the cushion so her hair doesn’t stain anything.

“I like that you call him a dork,” she tells me. “It’s cute. You two are really cute together.”

I look at Zach and see his eyes going wide with the same alarm that’s shooting through my chest. He opens his mouth to say something, but Hope holds up her hand.

“Ah, ah, ah. I know you’re not together, but whatever it is you’re doing, it looks good on you two.”

Zach’s eyes shift back to me. I can see his face going red, and my skin is starting to feel hot too.

“I made it awkward, didn’t I?” Hope doesn’t wait for us to answer. I thought I talked fast, but, mon dieu, this girl is something else. “Moving on. How about I order something that isn’t frozen for dinner, and then we can all go out to show off my new hair? Halifax bars are total shit, and I want to see some of that famous Montreal nightlife.”

I get my face back under control and sit down with my legs tucked under me on the cushion next to Hope. “Parfait! We can go dancing!”

“Dancing?”

Zach is still standing in the middle of the room, and he does not sound as excited as Hope and I are about the plan. The two of us are already scrolling through delivery choices on Hope’s phone.

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