Take the Plunge by Colette Davison

Author:Colette Davison [Davison, Colette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Kian

On Sunday nights, a few of my friends gather at a pub on the edge of the city centre for a pub quiz. A core group of three of my friends are here for the quiz every week, and the rest of us turn up as and when we’re available.

“Hi, stranger,” Aria says as I sit beside her in the booth. She’s the centre of our group of friends, the one person we all have in common. “You’re just in time.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“I was beginning to forget what you look like. You keep blowing us off.”

I don’t have a defence. She’s right. I’ve bugged out of Saturday nights out on the town because Jett has invited me to his. I didn’t go to last week’s pub quiz either for the same reason. Not that I go to the pub quiz every week, just most weeks.

“What have you been doing?” Nathan asks.

“I’ve been busy, that’s all.” I can’t say anything else. They might not know Jett, but our fling is supposed to be a secret.

“Busy screwing someone?” Olly takes a crisp out of the packet in front of him and offers it to his girlfriend, Elouise. “Leave him alone.”

Klara comes to my rescue. “It’s no one’s business what Kian’s been up to.”

“Just as long as you don’t forget who your friends are.” Aria gives me a pointed look.

“I won’t. I’m sorry. I’ll be around more. I promise.” I have been a bit too wrapped up in Jett. Which is probably stupid, but I can’t help wanting to spend time with him.

“We’re going to win this week.” Aria gestures to a table full of attractive guys in their twenties. “Hell’s Dancers have won the last three Sundays in a row, so we need to kick their arses this week.”

My friends and I are a mixed bunch with different interests and aspirations. In theory, it should give us an advantage in the pub quiz, but Hell’s Dancers keep beating us.

I crack my knuckles. “I’m up for the challenge. What are we calling our team this week?”

Unlike Hell’s Dancers, who have the same name every week, we come up with a new name every time.

“The birds and the bees?” Olly suggests.

“Are you hinting that you need a lesson in the birds and the bees?” Klara asks.

“Why? Are you offering?”

Klara blushes. “Maybe.”

“Just sleep together already,” Nathan says.

Klara play-smacks him across the arm.

“What? I can’t cope with any more of the sappy looks between the two of you. You have the hots for each other. Act on it.”

“The birds and the bees.” Aria writes the name down on top of the answer sheet. She checks her watch. “Right, we have five minutes before the quiz starts. What’s been the highlight of your week? Nathan, you’re first.”

“We saw the latest superhero movie at the cinema last night. It was epic.”

“It wasn’t that good,” Elouise says with a bored eye roll. “The highlight of my week was getting a tip for doing a complex nail design.

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