Stuck With You by Aimee Brown

Author:Aimee Brown [Brown, Aimee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boldwood Books

15

RIVER

The burger was a bad idea. I need to learn how to say no. But noooooo, I had to go and eat a giant, flaming hot burger in front of two beautiful women, and now I feel like I literally might die. If I don’t, at minimum, I will spend some time in my bathroom this evening. I peel my hoodie off over my head, sitting it on my lap because I feel like I’m on fire.

‘What are you doing?’ Jade asks, instantly concerned. ‘It’s freezing out here?’

‘Is it?’ I pull my shirt away from my chest, creating a breeze. ‘I’m hot.’

‘How could you possibly be ho—’ She stops mid-word as she touches my arm. Suddenly she stands, sliding her hand to the side of my neck. Her touch sends chills through me, but I try to stay calm so she won’t notice.

‘Getting hotter,’ I say jokingly. My mouth can’t keep anything cool.

‘She’s in mom mode,’ Laney says.

‘Mom mode?’ I ask as Jade pulls her hand from me.

‘I’m not in “mom” mode, but you are super hot.’

‘I know, right?’ I try to seem smooth, but the fact that I’m sweating like a snowman in a desert is probably giving me away. Right now, I am not ‘hot’.

Jade smirks. ‘As in possible fever hot.’

‘Fever?’ I feel my forehead as if I’ll be able to tell. ‘I haven’t had a fever since I was in high school. I thought that was a childhood thing?’

‘It’s a humanity thing. You are eating a burger that promised misery. Maybe that special sauce is poison,’ she jokes.

What is in that special sauce?

‘Jovi!’ I holler, and he appears like a genie. ‘You put rat poison in this thing?’

‘No,’ he laughs. ‘But it’s going to feel like I did. We don’t call it the coronary burger for nothing.’ He glances at my plate and smiles, pulling his phone from his back pocket and snapping what is probably the worst photo ever. ‘Congratulations, you’ve now got a twenty-two-dollar credit and your photo on the wall of fame.’

‘I feel like that wall is more shame than fame,’ Laney says not impressed even a little.

God, I think she’s right. I groan, shoving the nearly empty plate out of the way and dropping my head onto the tabletop with a thunk.

‘I gotta go home. Like, yesterday.’

‘First you have to bring us home,’ Laney reminds me.

‘I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but we are not having three-way, I respect your sister too much for that.’ I side-eye her, watching her smirk to herself.

‘You drove us,’ Laney insists.

‘Oh yeah…’

‘Shit.’ I drove them. Great idea, River. Show off your cool car and now die in front of them. You’re really pulling out all the stops tonight. I reach into my pocket, fish out my keys, and set them in Jade’s hand. ‘You know how to drive a stick?’

‘Yeah,’ she says hesitantly.

‘Good, ’cause you’re driving. Which I can’t believe I’m even suggesting ’cause I hardly let anyone drive that car. She’s my baby.’

‘Dork alert; his car’s his baby.

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