I smiled, trying not to laugh because this wasn’t funny, notreally.
And it wasn’t because I was pretty certain my sister wasright.Michael was cheating on her.The dude was shifty as all heck.
But still.
We watched as Lena tiptoed across the street, looking everywhich way, her long braids swinging along her back (causing me to wonder if Ishould make an appointment at the salon, those braids looked good on her),making it so obvious she was somewhere she shouldn’t be doing something sheshouldn’t be doing, in broad daylight no less, I no longer felt like laughing.
Instead, I groaned.
“She’s terrible at this,” I stated the obvious.
“One of us should stop her,” Toni noted.
She was right.
“And that someone isn’t gonna be me,” Toni went on.
Ugh.
I started to open the door to go fetch my sister but stilledwhen Toni muttered, “Holy crap.”
Holy crap was right.
This was because, out of nowhere, Eddie Chavez and LeeNightingale were there.
Lee was heading to my car.
Eddie was heading off Lena.
“Oh boy, that man grew up f-i-n-e,fine,” Toni declared, eyes glued through my windshield.“Both of themarefine.But seeing as I’ve already taken in the grown-up fineness ofEddie’s fine, and I’m just now witnessing the same from Lee, I can tell you thetwo of them together is too much fine.I might not be able to handle this.AndI got experience with fine, since Tony is right now at home, waiting to get thecall to bail me out of jail.He said I better make this a misdemeanor, since heisn’t pawning our new flat screen for your foolishness.”
Lee rapped on my window with his knuckles, and when I hitthe switch to roll it down, he bent over to look in at me.
And, um…yeah.
He was a good-looking kid.
But now he wasfine.
“Hey, Lee,” I greeted.“Long time.Are you home on leave?”
“Yeah,” he grunted.
“Hey, Lee.Lookin’ good,” Tonigreeted, pushing in between the seats to peer around me at Lee.
“Toni,” he returned, his lips twitching in a ghost of thatfamous Liam Nightingale smile.Then, with no further ado, he got serious andsaid, “Eddie’s gonna put Lena in the car and you three are gonna get the fuckout of here.”
I noted his mouth had not cleaned up since back in the day.
And it was still hot.
“Sure, sure, good,” I babbled.
“She thinks her man is cheating on her,” Toni told Lee.
I lost his face when he looked over the roof of my car.
He came back into the window when I heard the door openbeside me and the car bobbed when Lena’s bottom hit the passenger seat.
