Roomies with Brother's Best Friend by Sofia T Summers

Author:Sofia T Summers [Summers, Sofia T]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-03T00:00:00+00:00

21

Parker

Emma bustled in home from work with Ally in tow, clearly distracted. “Everything okay?” I asked.

If her boss had given her a hard time for not giving into his advances, then just roommates or not, I was going to track that guy down and give him a piece of my mind. He couldn’t be treated his employees like this. And Emma could defend herself, sure, but that didn’t mean she should have to all the time. She could let someone else also help defend her. That was what friends did. And I hoped I was at least, kind of, a friend since she was living with me.

“Everything’s fine,” Emma replied, but she sounded exhausted. Not tense, at least, not in that way that people got when they were nervous or scared. She just sounded like she’d had a long day. “Van’s going to come get me and we’re going to have a girls’ night on the town.”

“Oh, great.”

I didn’t know Van, at least, not well. I knew of her, of course. In our small town, everyone knew everyone. And Van was Emma’s best friend so it was kind of impossible for me not to know about her. I knew she was… the bolder, louder version of Emma. At least, if you asked Emma’s opinion. I thought Emma was plenty bold on her own, but Emma was fairly quiet, and contained. Or at least she had been. An extroverted, partying people person, she was not.

Van, apparently, was.

The Van that I knew, anyway. But that had been five years ago. Who the hell even know what she had in store for me now.

“Auntie Van is coming?” Ally asked, excited.

“Yup!” Emma confirmed. “Auntie Van and Mama are having a night out, but Uncle Lucas is going to stay and hang out with you and Parker, okay?”

I felt a little miffed that Emma didn’t trust me to look after Ally on my own, but I wasn’t going to say no to hanging out with Lucas. It would be a fun evening.

Ally cheered, obviously excited to see her uncle again. I couldn’t imagine what it had been like, to grow up with three people who parented you and loved you, only to have two of those people suddenly be far away.

…although, I could sort of imagine it. Leaving Rehoboth and then going to watch my mother die, yeah, that had been pretty awful.

Luckily for Ally, the loss wasn’t permanent. She’d get used to it and she could still see them often, on nights like this.

Emma went into her room to get ready, and I tried not to think too much about Van and what she might think of me. The way to a person was through her best friend, honestly. If Lucas didn’t like a girl while we were in high school, I didn’t date her. If Ash had ever told me he didn’t like someone, I wouldn’t have dated them, either—although the subject never came up since there was never anyone I wanted to date.

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