Almost Too Far (Almost Bad Boys #3) by Peart A.O

Author:Peart, A.O. [Peart, A.O.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Three Graces Publishing
Published: 2014-03-28T00:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”

Cathy Guisewite.

The casino’s parking lot is huge, but Jena decides to find a spot somewhere close to the building. This section is crammed with cars.

“We should leave the van somewhere visible so The Turban Man can find it easily. He knew we’re going to the casino,” Caroline reasons.

“Do you see how many cars are here? How can he possibly find it?” Jena says, unconvinced. “Oh, there’s a spot.” She maneuvers the vehicle into an empty parking space, although it takes her four tries before she fits it between the lines painted on the pavement.

I take out three twenty-dollar bills and put it on the driver’s seat. Svetlana notices and adds another twenty. “That should do it. I hope he won’t curse us for taking his ugly van.” The rest of the girls add money to the pile.

“I’ll write a note to him.” I tear off a page from a small notebook laying on the dashboard and write: DEAR MR. TAXI DRIVER. THANK YOU FOR DRIVING US. SORRY THIS TURNED OUT CRAZY, BUT WE WERE AFRAID THESE GUYS WOULD HURT YOU. HERE’S SOME MONEY FOR YOU TO COVER GAS AND ANYTHING ELSE. WE HOPE YOU’RE NOT MAD THAT WE BORROWED YOUR VEHICLE. BE COOL.

Svetlana eyes the note, frowning. “Be cool?”

“Means, don’t do anything stupid. I hope he understands.” I wrap the bills inside the note and leave it on the seat.

We get out and look around. Ali sobered up some, but she’s still wobbly on her feet and clutches onto my arm for support.

“So what’s the plan?” Svetlana asks me. “Should we split or stay together?”

“Let’s stay together for now. Someone has to be with Ali all the time—”

“Sure, sure. Babysit Ali,” Ali interrupts me. She spits on the pavement. “Bleh, I swallowed a bug.”

Caroline and I roll our eyes.

The five of us walk to the entrance and go inside. The place is brightly lit and massive with an impressive round ceiling that reminds me of something between swirling blue ocean waters and a starry night sky with a blazing sphere in the middle.

There is a round bar, right smack under that sphere. On the top of the bar a cool sculpture stretches up to the ceiling. It depicts a group of colorful fish circling something shaped like gigantic, glittery seaweed. Is there even glittery seaweed? Well, there’s one here, right in front of my eyes.

“Wow, this is cool.” Ali approves. “What do we do first?”

“First, we find Colin’s great grandma and her crazy friend Stella.” I comb my eyes over the room.

Ali’s smile disappears, replaced by a pout. “Ah, that. Crap. Okay, where would she go? Bingo? Slot machines?”

“Dunno. Maybe bingo? That’s what the old ladies usually like to play, right?” I look around.

“Too bad we don’t know how she looks. We could split up and find her faster that way,” Caroline reasons.

Rows of slot machines stretch out from the circular bar and all the way to the area with small, half-round tables with card dealers.

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