“That might be kind of hard to do.”
“Why?”
“Because she just walked in with your sister.”
I turned around quickly, immediately discovering that Liam was, in fact, not lying.
Cassie was standing next to my sister, laughing about God only knows what. To make things go from bad to worse, the hostess started walking them towards our direction. Since the booth behind us was the only one empty, I knew I was doomed.
I shot back around, lowering my head. Maybe if I hid good enough, they’d never even notice us.
Liam shot his hand up in the air, whistling to get their attention.
“What the actual fuck, dude?” I whispered angrily.
“What? I haven’t seen your sister in a while. I wanted to say hi.”
“Is that really necessary?” I rolled my eyes, trying to quickly come up with a game plan in my head. Didn’t matter though—here I was, back to walking on eggshells. I couldn’t get away from Cassie Blake, no matter how hard I tried. At this rate, I should just move away. Build another cabin somewhere in the middle of Alaska and go off the grid. It was my only hope.
“Hey, you two,” Molly said, standing in front of our booth. Instead of following suit, Cassie ignored us, sitting down in their booth directly behind us as if we didn’t even exist.
Fine by me.
“You’ll have to excuse Cassie. Jace pissed her off,” Molly said to Liam.
“Oh, I’ve heard,” he whispered back to her, trying to make sure Cassie couldn’t hear him.
“You two don't get into too much trouble tonight,” Liam warned. “I’m not on duty tonight to save your asses.”
“You know I love some trouble,” Molly joked, winking at us before walking back to her own booth.
The waitress walked to our table a few seconds behind Molly, food in hand.
“Here you two go. One special and one cheeseburger. Made with extra love,” she said, smiling at me in a way that kind of freaked me out.
She was wearing bright red lipstick, and some of it was stuck to her teeth. Paired with her sparkly blue eyeshadow, the girl looked like my four-year-old niece had done her makeup.
The only person I had ever seen who wore bright red lipstick and looked beautiful while doing it was sitting right behind me.
As Liam and I started to eat, I could hear Molly and Cassie talking about what they should do after they got done eating. My attention was piqued when Molly mentioned wanting to go somewhere to see the stars.
Cassie and I had watched the stars together.
“I wanna go somewhere, like super pretty, with the best view of the stars and take some pictures,” I could hear Molly say behind me.
I knew the perfect spot. And so did Cassie. I wondered if she would break the promise she made to me about not telling anyone about it.
“I haven't been stargazing in ages,” she replied.
Huh.
Guess she wasn't going to rat me out after all. Even if she had, I knew deep down I deserved it.
Liam’s snickering pulled me from my eavesdropping session. He held the receipt up that the waitress left at the table, giggling like a little girl.
“What’s so funny?”
“The waitress left her number on the back of our receipt for you.”
