'Kira!' She flipped me the bird without even pausing.
There was no way I was going to run after her, not in my
There was no way I was going to run after her, not in my
four-inch fuck-me pumps. I managed a hobble, though.
'Kira, c'mon. Wait.'
'You're supposed to be my friend,' she said, and the quiet affront in her tone was worse than an insult or a punch.
'God, Paige. Just because you can doesn't always mean
you should, you know? This isn't high school anymore.'
I stopped trying to folow her. 'No shit, realy? And caling
out some dude on the street when he's with another girl,
that's not straight out of high school?'
'That's different!'
'How is it different?'
'You knew how I felt about Jack!' Kira shouted.
We'd have attracted more attention if it wasn't Friday night
just after the bars al closed, but as it was we were just
two more drunk sluts fighting over a guy. In high school I'd
have shouted back at her, maybe even done a little hair
puling.
But as we'd already established, we weren't in high school
But as we'd already established, we weren't in high school
anymore.
I trapped my tongue between my teeth to stop myself from
shouting back, but even then my voice came out clipped
and sharp. 'I said I was sorry. You weren't with him. You
never even dated him. And you weren't even speaking to
me at the time.'
She faltered for a moment, her lashes batting and her
mouth working as though she meant to say something
realy awful but could only come up with '…Yeah, wel.
You shouldn't have.'
I didn't point out the number of boys I'd liked that Kira
had fucked, or tried to fuck, or lied about fucking just to
needle me. I said nothing, just stared, and she at last had
the grace to cut her gaze from mine. She shrugged instead
of speaking.
If you're lucky, the friends you make when you're sixteen
stay with you for the rest of your life. If you're smart, you
know when it's time to let them go. I stopped walking. I
watched her walk toward the diner, where drunk and
hungry people would order eggs and stiff the waitress and
steal the silverware. I let her go there, even though she'd
been drinking and she needed a ride home and I couldn't
be sure the person she'd caled would come to get her.
Yeah. Some friend.
Chapter 04
'I'm realy glad you came,' Austin said this as soon as he opened the door.
I said nothing.
He closed it behind me as I moved past him and into his
