I fanned myself. “Sorry I’m late.”
“I’m just glad you showed up,” McKenna said. “Reptile owners are weeeird.”
There was a guy with a face tattoo who was baby talking to one small iguana. Another girl with green hair and a nervous tic was asking question after question to another guy who looked like he wanted to crawl under a rock and hide.
“Yep. That’s us reptile people.” My voice sounded high-pitched.
“Did Grayson hate his pet rock?” McKenna asked me.
“Nope,” I said in a squeak.
“Really? He wasn’t angry? Usually you have good ideas, but that one seemed a little questionable. Guess I was wrong, ha ha!”
“Ha ha!” I laughed, though it sounded more like air being let out of a balloon.
McKenna gave me an odd look.
Not able to contain it anymore, I grabbed the strap of her purse and pulled her close to me.
“Grayson kissed me,” I squeaked in her ear.
Her mouth dropped open.
“Like a kiss on the cheek, right?”
“No, like his tongue was in my mouth.”
“Oh my god.” She clapped a hand over her mouth. “You know, before you got hired, Anthym took me out for drinks. I think she was still trying to pretend like she wasn’t an alien wearing a skin suit. At the bar, she was going on and on about how amazing it would be to kiss Grayson. So was it? Was it amazing?” McKenna demanded.
“Not that I have a lot of experience, but it was the best kiss ever.”
“Anthym’s going to be so jealous!” McKenna pumped her fist.
“She can’t know. You can’t tell anyone.” I grabbed my friend by the shoulders and shook her. “I’ll get fired. I broke an employee handbook rule. Not to mention I’ll never land a job at Disney if they find out I kissed my boss.”
“A dick in the hand is worth two Disneys in a bush,” McKenna said sagely.
I dropped down on a bench.
“Maybe he made a mistake. Maybe he got overwhelmed by Crumpet.”
“Oh, you didn’t tell him that was the rock’s name did you, Lexi?”
“Crumpet is an awesome name for a pet rock.”
“So are you going to sleep with him?”
“Of course not.” I could feel the heat in my cheeks. Curse this pale skin.
“Oh my god, yes, you are. You should have slept with him now. Maybe you could have convinced him to buy us a nicer place to live.”
“The place we live is, you know, it’s fine. It’s a place.”
“My grandmother is convinced the landlord is trying to burn down the building and evict us.”
“I can’t worry about imaginary problems; I have a huge one.”
“Ooh, did you feel him up? Is it ginormous?”
