Hot Summer Lovin’ by Ali Parker

Author:Ali Parker [Parker, Ali]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BrixBaxter Publishing
Published: 2019-06-21T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Will

Some ballgame was playing on my TV, but I wasn’t really watching it. It was Friday night and Rayce had invited me out to an exclusive club, but I’d turned him down. Knowing some of the guys he ran with, I wasn’t really in the mood for them.

They were all badass in their regular day-to-day operations, but when they drank too much, they tended to lose ten or fifteen years of maturity. Hours before going out, they could have been doing any manner of illegal deals, and their very names struck fear into the hearts of many.

Fast-forward to when they were all a few drinks in and together at a bar, and they turned into pranksters. I’d woken up once wearing nothing but my underwear, which would have been fine if they hadn’t driven me to a family campground a hundred miles away and dumped me there.

They had a propensity for duct-taping or Saran-Wrapping a person’s entire body, putting hot sauce in your drinks or spray-painting one another’s balls. Hilarious as it could be, I just wasn’t up for it tonight.

Just when I was starting to wonder if I really was an old fart—as Rayce had called me—for not wanting to go out with them, my phone rang. It made me happier than it should have to see Heidi’s name on my screen.

Smiling, I pressed it to my ear after sliding my finger across the green bar. “Hey, you.”

Some godawful noise came through the line before I heard Heidi’s voice, just barely over the terrible rendition of “Pour Some Sugar on Me” in the background. “Hi, Will. What are you doing?”

Her words were slightly slurred, but at least it sounded like she was walking away from whoever was butchering that damn song. “I’m at home. You?”

“Why are you home?” she asked in a singsong kind of voice. She must have stepped into a bathroom or something because the noise was suddenly muted enough for me to hear her properly. “Don’t be at home. You should be here, with us.”

“Where’s here?”

“Uh…” She trailed off, yelled the question loudly, waited for an answer, and then she was back. “Rockin’ Rooster.”

“Rockin’ Rooster?” I racked my brain, but I’d never heard of the place. “What the hell is that?”

“It’s a karaoke bar, and it’s fantastic,” she gushed, sounding like she was in that bright-and-shiny, post-tipsy stage when everything in the world was just awesome. Unicorns farting rainbows and all that.

“I don’t really sing, babe. Why don’t we do something together tomorrow?”

“No!” she cried out, and I could imagine her bottom lip sticking out. It was a cute as hell image. “You don’t have to sing. You can just watch us.”

“No, really. I—”

“I made fifty cents in tips today, Will. Drinks are on me. Come on.” Any other person might have been rather disappointed about making only fifty cents in tips for the entire day. Not Heidi, though. She actually sounded a little excited. Definitely the bright-and-shiny stage.

“Okay, sure. I’ll be right there.” I’d have to look up where the hell the place was, but that was why the internet had been created.

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