“Playing pool is where it gets fuzzy. Did I keep drinking?”
She nods. “It was already pretty late, and Kai was worried about you getting home. He tried sobering you up with water, coffee, and bread, but you kept spitting it out.”
Wow, that must have been a turn-on for Kai.
“Kai and his friend drove you home around six in the morning.”
She hops up onto the counter and sits on the opposite side of me. “We didn’t know how you were going to make it back inside your house alone. That’s why I thought you would have gotten caught. Kai was talking about walking inside with you.”
I look at her, baffled. That was a close one. I can’t keep doing this. I’m going to get myself in more trouble.
“Have you not talked to Kai?” she asks.
“No. My mom still has my phone, and she won’t let me use the house phone. I’m grounded from everything.” I sigh. “To be honest, I’m surprised she didn’t ground me from school because she knows I still see you and Kai here.”
“She would get in trouble herself if she kept you from school.”
“True.”
“I miss hanging out with you. Why’d you have to get caught?”
Our conversation stops when a couple of girls walk in. They must have had the same idea as us. They turned right back around once they saw us sitting on the counter.
“We still hang out.”
“Only on the weekends. And half the time you’re with Kai.” She crosses her legs over each other.
I do miss girl time with her. We used to do it all the time. Everything has changed so much over the last few months. It’s crazy. “What’s going on with you and Owen? Do you like him?”
She shrugs. “We’ve only hung out on the weekends at the parties.”
“You guys haven’t hung out outside of that?”
She shakes her head.
“What? I thought you guys had been hanging out this whole time. You two look very cozy every time I see you guys together.”
“Nope, only on the weekends. I haven’t asked him to hang out aside from the weekends. Maybe this is just a weekend fling.”
The bell rings, not giving me enough time to ask more about how she feels about him. We both scoot off the counter and walk out.
“I’m going to need a note to excuse my absence,” I say.
“Okay. I’ll write you one.”
“Blakely.”
Someone calls my name from somewhere behind me. I look over my shoulder and see Kai with furrowed brows and a tense posture.
“I’ll see you in class, Paige.”
She looks at Kai and then back to me and nods.
“Where have you been?” he asks, pulling me into his arms.
“With Paige in the bathroom. What’s wrong?”
“I waited all morning for you. Then you never came out of your classroom, and it made me even more worried that something might have happened after I dropped you off.”
