In Case of Emergency by Jenny Bunting

Author:Jenny Bunting [Bunting, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jenny Bunting

“I cannot believe you, Cass,” Erin says, tilting back her mimosa. “I cannot.”

We sit under the big chalk menu as we pound mimosas. I usually choose health, but today is all about the baked goods. All the scones and pancakes.

My friends represent the sliding scale of relationship status. Sarah has been shackled up for years, marrying her high school sweetheart at twenty-three and immediately popping out one kid and then another a few years later. Erin recently started dating Landon, an app tycoon whom she met on an airplane. Raegan is a relatively new friend who fits in easily with my OG crew; I met her when we bonded over a rather awkward yin yoga class where the lady in front of us broke wind very very loudly…and then proceeded to give a five-minute apology in the middle of downward dog, blaming it on prunes.

I just told them everything. The run-in, the elevator, the kiss.

“What does Smith look like?” Sarah asks, typing into her phone and barely looking up. Her husband Jin is alone with the kids and cannot find their daughter Emma’s favorite toy, a stuffed rabbit, and supposedly she is losing her mind. The way Sarah’s phone is going off, Jin’s losing his mind as well.

I pull up a photo from the firm’s website and show it around the table.

“Holy shit, Cassie, he is hot!” Raegan says. “Was he not a good kisser?”

“He was excellent,” I say.

“And he didn’t ask you out or get your number or anything?”

I would like to see you again. After the wedding. Preferably not in an elevator. I shake my head.

Erin looks at the photo and leans back. “Wasn’t he married?”

I shake my head. “They got divorced. She cheated on him.”

“I cannot believe you. You kiss possibly the hottest man I’ve ever seen and don’t follow up for a phone number, a handle, nothing,” Erin says, popping the raspberry garnish into her mouth. “Is he actually terrible?”

I cross my arms. “No, he’s…”

Dorky. Thoughtful. Sexy.

Screams “pain, heartache, and bad decisions.”

“Oh no, I know that look,” Erin says, pointing a finger at me.

“What look?” Raegan asks.

Sarah doesn’t look up from her phone. “Here we go again.”

Raegan looks confused.

One of the most refreshing things about Raegan is she’s only known me single. She doesn’t know how needy I can be, how insane I felt when I was barely treading water in the dating pool.

How my friends saw the red flags of every man I dated and I ignored each one. How I fall hard and get hurt even harder.

Nothing like a huge dick against my lady parts to awaken the dumb bitch within me.

Sarah drops her phone in her purse and opens her hands. “Okay, I think Jin found Emma’s rabbit, so we’re good. Now, single people problems.”

“Why not pursue Smith then?” Raegan asks.

“Don’t encourage her,” Erin says, pointing with a finger. “Trust me.”

“I’m better now,” I say. “I’ve had three years in my single detox. Maybe it’s not Smith, but maybe I should get back out there again.

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