But I know what I want.
IwantAspen.
I think there’s a chance she wants me too.
So we’ll see where we go from here.
I hope it’s somewhere good. I’d hate to lose one of my favorite friends.
14
Aspen
Before Waverly gets inside,I give myself a quick cold washcloth bath and change clothes, then shove the quilts that smell like sex into the bedroom.
And then I get to enjoy my friend. She’s everything I need at this moment.
She shrieks with laughter and gasps in horror at all of the right spots as I tell her about the past few days. And when I whisper that I think I have a crush on Cash, she’s not horrified.
She just grins bigger and says, “Finally figured that out, did you?”
Apparently I talk about him a lot.
“I don’t date seriously,” I tell Waverly as we move the mattress back into the bedroom since the power’s on again. “It’s not my thing.”
“It can be,” is all she says before the men come filing back into the house.
We’ve kept the fire going, and they huddle around it.
“Road’s clear,” Cooper tells Waverly. “Come warm my hands up to reward me for doing such a good job.”
“He didn’t clear the road,” Cash says.
Waverly’s laughing as she leans into Cooper and takes his hands in hers, blowing on them. “I’m well aware.”
“I was great emotional support, and I shoveled like a champ,” he says proudly.
Cash meets my eyes and rolls his.
I want to crack up, but I’m suddenly so nervous about having other people here that the laughter dies in my throat.
“Brought fresh firewood,” Davis says. He’s always so quiet that it’s weird when you hear him speak. “Cleaned out Beck’s secret holiday stash too.”
Cash and I both jerk our heads at him. “You too?” I say as Cash says, “He already refilled it?”
Davis smirks. “Levi’s cleaning him out tomorrow. This is fun.”
Cash snickers.
Glances at me, pulls a face that clearly saysshit, now you have to deal with more holiday stuff, then looks at Davis again.
Davis smirks. “Didn’t, actually. He cried too much when he saw what you stole, and I’m too nice to do that to him right after he got it refilled.”
I don’t think Beck actually cried.
Probably not.
It’s highly unlikely. I think.
