Mason's Run by Mellanie Rourke

Author:Mellanie Rourke [Rourke, Mellanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-01T05:00:00+00:00

17

Lee

We stayed in that arcade for hours and it was one of the best dates I’d ever had. We were both thoroughly tired out by the time I got a text from Mama K inviting us to come over for dinner with them.

MAMA K: CHALLENGE DELIVERED! You & I against D and Mason. It’s Scrabble night at the Devereaux den! You in?

ME: Let me check with Mason…I don’t know how much my crazy family he can take in one week.

MAMA D: Well, if I he’s too scared, we understand…

I groaned and shared the text with Mason. He nodded eagerly.

“Sure! Sounds like a lot of fun,” he said, grinning at me.

“Wait a minute,” I paused in confusion. “You know I said ‘Scrabble’ right? Scrabble is not fun. Scrabble is torture. Scrabble is aggravating and mind-numbing. Scrabble is not ‘fun’.”

“I’m a writer and artist, Lee. I think Scrabble is fun. The only game more fun for me would probably be Pictionary.” He grinned at me. “Did you know I used to play competitively in college?” he asked, quirking an eyebrow at me.

“Bullshit,” I called, eyeing him critically as I drove.

“No bullshit. I won the Word Boy of the Month award my senior year in college,” he chuckled. “Okay, maybe it was just our apartment building, and the only ones I ever really played against were Everett and Lizzie. After I beat her like, ten times in a row, I made her make me a tinfoil crown that had ‘Word Boy of February’ on it. She’s got pictures, I can have her send them to you If you need proof…”

“Pics or it didn’t happen,” I said matter-of-factly.

Mason waggled his eyebrows at me. “Number?” he challenged me. I gave it to him and saw him type something into his phone. A few minutes later my phone pinged. I pulled it up and found a message from Lizzy forwarded to me by Mason. As promised, it was a younger Mason with a thoroughly bedazzled tinfoil crown with the words “Word Boy of February” in pink glitter on the front. Next to him was a young blonde woman in a wheelchair with a dramatically sad look on her face who I could only assume was Lizzie.

“Nice,” I laughed. “Who did the bedazzling? You or Lizzie?”

“Neither,” Mason responded. “That was all Everett.”

We laughed and joked the rest of the way over to my parents. When we arrived, I noticed Kaine’s car was gone, but Bishop’s was here. It didn’t mean Bishop was home, as he and Kaine spent a lot of time together.

Mama K met us at the door with hugs, her gray eyes smiling. I think she surprised Mason when she hugged him, because he seemed to freeze for a minute before relaxing into it. As sassy as Mama K was, there was no better hugger in the world.

“There’s my partner!” Mama D announced as we entered the living room. Mason smiled and sat across from her at the table. They’d taken a couple of leaves out of the table to make it the perfect size for playing Scrabble.

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