Christy stopped, shaking her head.“Who?”
“Josh,” Oscar said, hooking his thumb at me.
“I know Josh.Who is he hooking up with?”
“The hot brunette from Evie’s graduation party.Ashlyn’s friend.She was with Ashlyn and Sage at the party.”
Christy shook her head slowly.“I guess I didn’t notice.Clearly you did.”
Oscar grinned.“Three beautiful women sitting together?Yeah, I noticed.Did Ashlyn introduce you?”
I shook my head, accepting I was going to have to tell them everything.“Ashlyn doesn’t know yet.I don’t think.”
“How does that work?”Oscar asked.
Christy moved into the kitchen, pulling things out of the fridge as I told them about yelling at Reegan, then apologizing and getting to know her.
“You’re not going to try to make us believe it’s innocent, are you?”Coach challenged me.
I exhaled a laugh.“I don’t know what kind of ESP you have, old man, but it’s a little scary.”
“Why do you think I never got away with anything when we were kids?”Christy asked.
“Don’t get away with it now either, kid,” Coach said.
Christy rolled her eyes at him, but smiled.She turned away from us, and I knew she was fighting her emotions again.
“So?”Oscar asked, prompting me to continue.
“We have been getting to know each other,” I said, not giving away too much.
“She’s holding out on you,” Oscar said.
“No,” I blurted before I could stop it.
“She’s not then.Interesting.”Oscar rubbed his chin, smirking at me.
“Son of a bitch.Fine.Evie stayed with her mother last night, and Reegan and I had coffee in my kitchen this morning.After I showed her my bedroom.”My ears burned with my confession.
“Good for you,” Coach said.
“One of us should be getting laid.I might be a born-again virgin at this point,” Oscar said.
Christy snorted but did not comment.Neither of us asked about her status with her father around.
“She makes you happy.I can see it,” Coach said.
I nodded, admitting the truth to the people closest to me.“She does.We click.She’s easy to talk to, and fun to be around.”
“Why doesn’t Ashlyn know?”Christy asked.
“Reegan came here when Rob dumped Ashlyn, and she feels bad rubbing it in that we met.She said she’s going to tell her soon, though.”My phone buzzed with a text from Evie, letting me know she was home and would come over to see Coach.“Speaking of, Evie doesn’t know about Reegan.She’ll be here soon, so don’t say anything.”
“If Evie knows, Hannah will know,” Christy said.
“And we all know how that will end up,” Oscar snarled.
“Yeah.”I told Evie to let herself in as usual and that we were in the living room.She replied with a thumbs-up.
