got here as fast as I could.”
“Not here,” I whisper, drying my newly wet
eyes.
“Something wrong?” Patrick asks to my back.
“Erin’s going on break,” Rain announces, taking
my arm and bringing me toward the back of the
pub.
“She just got back,” Patrick adds, “it’s my turn.”
“Well, you can wait another fifteen minutes, or
half an hour or however long this takes,” Rain
concludes, nodding her head to indicate that I
should follow her.
Patrick mumbles something about women and
PMS and Alan laughs at his joke. Instead of
answering him back like I normally would have, I
shoot him a bitter, resentful look, but he must have
read more into it because the entertained
expression on his face changed in an instant. His
eyes narrowed slightly as if to study me closer, and
his forehead wrinkled as if he was thinking.
Almost as if he was worried.
Rain takes a key out of her pocket and asks me
to follow her upstairs to the apartment Liam left
after having moved in with her.
“Come on up, it’ll be calmer here.”
I nod and follow her up the stairs, trying to find
the right words to tell her that my world just fell
apart right on top of me.
Patrick
Erin takes off with Rain, leaving me alone at the
