“Bro,” Joe slung an arm around his neck, “you know better than to go up against the town committee, especially as I’m on it. They’ll have you blacklisted and run out of town if you don’t participate.”
“True that. Can’t you do something about this?”
“The entertainment subcommittee got this passed when I went to the bathroom.”
“I hate committees, sub or otherwise,” Dylan muttered.
“Pip and Bailey made Maggie show them her scar,” Joe said, changing the subject. They always talked like this, leaping from one topic to another.
“Hell of a scar,” Fin said without giving the words a great deal of thought.
The silence around him was suddenly deafening.
“Back it up, ranger boy. When did you see Maggie’s scar?” Joe demanded.
“What?” Fin retrieved the ball he’d fired at the hoop and missed. Turning, he saw the Trainer brothers and Dylan, arms crossed, looking at him.
“Answer the damn question. When did you see Maggie’s scar?”
“I didn’t, but I imagine it is a bad scar,” he lied. Fin had no problem with lying when it was for the greater good, and this was definitely that.
“I call BS,” Luke said. “You’re lying.”
“Fuck off, you can’t know that.” Fin threw the ball at him.
“Did you and Maggie do the horizontal mambo?” Jack asked.
Joe shot his brother a look. “You can’t say sex now you’re in a relationship?”
“It’s Rory’s fault; that’s what she calls it.”
“But we digress,” Dylan said. “Spill, Fin.”
“Go to hell,” he said. They didn’t know and couldn’t make him tell them. He was an adult, after all.
“Okay, maybe we’re wrong,” Luke said. “Considering she’s dating Calvin Harding and all.”
“No, she’s not!” Fin snarled. Luke smiled, which told Fin he’d said the words deliberately.
“And why wouldn’t she be dating him, Findlay? I mean it’s not like you and her—”
“Shut up,” he snarled. “Before I make you!”
“His eyes are squinty, so it may be time to stop.” Joe leaned in to look at Fin. “Mind you, after what Bailey said—”
“What did Bailey say?” Fin demanded, affability now in the trash.
Joe smiled at him, a ‘cat got the cream, I know something you don’t’ smile. “That she believed you and Maggie were a perfect fit, and she thought you’d complete each other.”
“I just threw up a bit in my mouth.” Fin scowled. “What does that even mean, complete each other?”
“It’s when all the pieces fit into place and you know you’ve found the one,” Jack added.
“God, you lot are so whipped it makes me want to heave up my breakfast.”
“Jealousy is ugly in a grown man,” Dylan said.
“You listening to this?” he asked the other unattached man in the group.
