I glance at the giggling woman who’s just appeared next to Wren—the same dark-haired friend she was talking to throughout the night. Stammer a startled, “W-w-what?”
“Neverbecome a spy, Gia,” Wren says, then starts for the door.
“Have fun!” her friend calls, winking at me before I follow Wren.
She’s moving fast, despite her tipsiness, but I’m sober with longer legs.
“You’re pregnant?” I blurt as soon as we’re outside and I’m reasonably certain no one else can overhear. The parking lot is mostly empty by this point in the night.
“No,” is Wren’s emphatic reply.
I relax.
Then she adds, “I mean, I don’t think I am.”
My neck snaps her way. “What does that mean?”
“It means we forgot a condom this morning.”
I scrub a palm across my face. How was that just this morning?
“You—I—it’d be …” I assumed if she’d had a pregnancy scare, it was with her ex. “But you said … birth control.”
Wren seems to make some sense of my rambling. “There’s always a small chance. I was freaked out about it earlier, and I mentioned it to Gia, thinking she’d talk me down. Not say something to you. It’s superunlikely, and I’m—ugh.”
She beelines for the wooded side of the parking area suddenly. I follow, not realizing what’s happening until she doubles over.
I walk over, gathering her hair in one hand, twisting it so it stays out of her face.
Wren attempts to shove me away. “Go away,” she groans. “This is gross.”
“You’ve looked sexier,” I agree.
Her arm flails as she tries to push me again. I grab her wrist, pinning her hand behind her back. She grinds her ass against my crotch, and I growl her name.
She laughs, then vomits again. Gags. “I’m never drinking again.”
“Great plan.”
Another groan.
“You done?” I ask, releasing her wrists.
Wren wipes her mouth with the back of her hand. “I think so.”
“Scale of one to ten, before you get in my truck?”
She thinks. “Four?”
“I’ll roll the windows down,” I decide.
Wren smiles.
“You’d tell me, right?”
“If I was about to throw up in your truck?” She rolls her eyes. “Yes. And I’d pay to have it detailed, which, honestly, would be an improvement.”
“If you got pregnant.”
