Goddamnit, I don’t know if I’d make it in jail.
My front door slammed open and I screamed. Oh god, this was it! They were coming to take me away.
“ELLE APRIL WARREN!”
Oh no. Oh no no no no no. This was so much worse than the police. I burrowed deeper into my blanket cocoon and prayed myolder sisterhad not just stormed into my house. “You can’t hide from me darling sister.” Her typically sweet voice taunts me.
FUCK.
Mabel was here andshe knew.Paul was a dead man. I was going to teach Henry a swear word and coach him to tell Anika it was Dad who taught it to him. “Mabel, turn it down a notch.” Another voice scolds her.
Double FUCK, Lola was here too.
Their footsteps taunt me as I listen to them come into my room. “Cannonball!” Mabel yells out her warning before she jumps and lands on my bed, wrapping her arms around my head and squealing. “Get off me!” My protests were muffled by my annoying older sister and the cocoon I had put myself in.
The other side of my bed dipped as Lola, thankfully, sat next to me. “You're going to smother her before we can get details.”
“Oh damn, you’re right. Help me unwrap her.” Two sets of grabby hands tugged on my blanket but my grip strength was not something to be messed with. “Leave me alone.” I groan out.
How was this my life?
“Come on Bubs, we need to get going if we want to make our check-in.” Hell no. They were trying to coax me out with my childhood nickname? They were playing dirty.
I poke the top of my head out of my safety blanket. “There’s our girl.” Mabel smacked a loud sloppy kiss on my exposed forehead. “Disgusting!” I roll away from Mabel into Lola’s lap.
Soft chuckles shake Lola’s body as she runs her fingers through my hair. “How about this, we won’t ask any questionsuntil we make it to Salt Lake?” I weigh the pros and cons in my head.
Lola had a full itinerary for us once we got to Salt Lake for the game. The only time we would really have to talk was during dinner but some hot shot was going to be joining us so they couldn’t really ask about the cunnilingus and sleep over with Patrick. I wiggle one of my hands out of my blankets. “Deal.”
Mabel whoops and starts to shake my bed—singing, “Elle and Patrick sitting in a tree.” In a new blanket unwrapping record, I whip myself out and throw it over her head, pushing her down onto my bed. “Shut your mouth.” Mabel’s manic laughter fills my room. I couldn’t do this.
“I need to shower before we hit the road.” I scurry into my en suite, shutting and locking the door behind me. Mabel’s crazy enough to break in and bombard me with questions while I was naked—no matter we just made a promise to not speak of it for now.
“Yeah you do! Bow chicka wow wow.”
I was gonna teach Henry two swear words.
Fucking Paul.
Showering, packing and driving to Salt Lake took far less time then I was mentally prepared for. As soon as we hit the exit to downtown, Mabel popped her head through the gap between the front seats where Lola and I sat. “Okay, bitch, spill.” Would Lola’s driving be impaired if I took my hands and shoved Mabel back to her seat?
I was able to hold off on sharing my dirty actions until we made it to the hotel room. Mabel was basically foaming at the mouth. When I reached the end of my story with how I had kissed Patrick then ran, leaving him to the wolves, Lola’s mouth was gaping open and Mabel was laughing so hard she was crying.
So fucking rude.
“So, it was good? You said you think you momentarily blacked out, must have been better than anything you-know-who ever did to you.” Damnit, I knew bringing this up would open questions about my previous, or lack thereof, experience. I had never trusted Loop to go farther than over the pants rubbing but I’d never shared that with anyone. When Loop and I had been together, he was always the one to initiate things but I never felt like it was right to go farther with him
I wasn’t the one to share like this but my brain was so jumbled because of my Intruder. I chewed on my lip, wavering on if I should tell my sisters one of my biggest secrets or if I should just keep my mouth shut.
“Wait, give us a side by side.”
“Mabel!”
“What? LJ, I’ve been waiting my whole life to have Elle open up to us like this! I feel like we’ve reached a new level of sisterhood.”
Aw, hell. I was a terrible liar and Mabel’s words made it impossible to not share. “I’m a virgin!” The words explode out of me and I slap my hands over my mouth, my intention had to ease into my confession.
A smile slowly spread across Mabel’s face. “Lola, cancel dinner. We’re staying in tonight.”
