Put Me Back Together by Lola Rooney

Author:Lola Rooney
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-11-25T00:00:00+00:00

14

Em: Is it happening now?

Me: We’re in the car going to the restaurant.

Em: Don’t put out on the first date. He’ll never buy the cow if he can motorboat your boobs for free.

Me: Omg, stop now.

Em: Make sure you show him that bra, though, it’s my best one!

Me: I’m turning my phone OFF now.

Em: No glove, no love!

“What’s so funny?” Lucas asked, giving me a quizzical look as he stopped at a red light.

I quickly hid my phone in my purse before more of Em’s X-rated texts could come through. “Just sister stuff,” I answered.

“You’re not telling her to call you in an hour with an emergency so you can get out of this date, are you?” Lucas said suspiciously. “Because you gotta give a guy a chance.”

“No, I told her to save her gaping head wound for the two-hour mark,” I replied. “The whole point is to get a free meal out of you first, obviously.”

“That’s my girl,” Lucas said with a grin.

My girl. I recalled how on the night of Oleg’s party those same words had filled me with rage. Now I felt my chest fill with anticipation and bubbly excitement. I was surprised at how little nervousness I was feeling, actually. Though Lucas might not know it, this was my first date—ever. I should have been white-knuckling it, but instead I felt giddy. Lucas, on the other hand, seemed pretty cool on the outside, but I had the feeling he was a little apprehensive about tonight.

When we first got into the car, he’d accidentally put it into reverse instead of drive, and he kept turning on the windshield wipers by mistake, even though it wasn’t raining. He blamed in on the fact that it wasn’t his car—and thank God, because this one was worse than the last one. One door was a different colour than the rest of the car, and my seat was stuck in a leaned-back position—but I remembered what Brit had said that night at The Limo; that it was my presence that made Lucas lose his cool.

Feeling mischievous, I decided to test out Brit’s theory. Sitting up in my seat as we sat at an intersection waiting to make a left turn, I leaned toward Lucas and brushed my fingers through his hair. His golden eyes darted to my face as I gave him a sly smile.

“What’re you doing?” he said uneasily.

Edging over even farther, I placed my lips beside his ear and whispered, “Am I making you nervous, Lucas?”

I heard him beginning to respond when I opened my lips and slid my tongue across his earlobe. Lucas sucked in a breath and the car swerved suddenly to the left, then back again. Luckily I’d checked that there was no traffic around the car before making my move.

“Jesus, Katie!” Lucas said as he completed his turn, breathing hard, his eyes wide and his hands gripping the wheel for dear life.

I fell back into my seat, giggling. “I got you, I got you!” I sang until he was laughing along with me.

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