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“For all intents and purposes, yes.” It wasn’t exactly a lie. Brinley was studying for her MCATs, and Annalise was studying Brinley.
Her grandma waved a hand in the air as if she was blowing off everything Annalise was saying. “Give her a call. Ask her if she wants to join us, or if she needs us to leave.”
Annalise shook her head. “I’m not putting her on the spot like that.” Annalise had no question that Brinley would say yes, and she felt bad putting her in a position where she felt like she had to.
“That’s fine. We’ll just wait and ask her ourselves.”
When her grandma and Nathalie didn’t budge, Annalise groaned and threw her hands in the air. Assholes. Why do I love these two so much? “Fine. I’ll call her. But I’m doing it from my bedroom, and you two are staying here. Deal?”
“Of course.” Nathalie smiled an innocent smile.
“We would never want to intrude,” her grandma added, and this time, she definitely did wink.
Annalise couldn’t help but smile as she walked into her bedroom. Those two were insane, but she adored them. She clicked on Brinley’s name and took a deep breath as the phone rang.
“Hey! Everything okay? According to my GPS, I’m about fifteen minutes away.”
“We have a bit of a situation.”
“Okay.”
Annalise felt guilty about the worry in Brinley’s voice. “It’s nothing bad. It’s not great, but it’s also not serious.”
Brinley simply laughed in response to Annalise’s rambling. “Okay. Are you going to share it with me, or do you want me to guess?”
“You know how I told you I do Wine Wednesday with my grandma every other week and sometimes my best friend joins us? They are terrible influences, and last week I drank way too much wine and apparently, agreed to get together again this week. I don’t remember anything about it, and honestly, for all I know, they conspired behind my back and made it up.”
Much to Annalise’s surprise, Brinley cackled on the other end of the phone. “That’s amazing. I love them already.”
“So, you don’t care? I can ask them to leave if you want.” Please tell me to make them leave.
“Absolutely not. I need to meet these two. They sound great. Plus, I could use some wine. I feel like my eyes are going to fall out from studying all day. I almost forgot how to walk when I stood up to get ready.”
“Cool. So, I’ll let them stay?” Shit.
“Of course! I can’t wait. I’ll see you all soon.”
“Yep. See you soon.”
When Annalise opened up her bedroom door, Nathalie jumped away from it. Annalise rolled her eyes at her best friend. “Very smooth.”
Nathalie shrugged. “If it makes you feel any better, I could only hear your end of the conversation since you didn’t have her on speakerphone.”
“Well, I’m sure you heard enough to know that she said it’s okay if you fools stay.”
Nathalie jumped in the air, clapped her hands together, and let out a high-pitched squeal. “I know. We’ve been waiting months for this.”
Annalise rolled her eyes again. “I’m sure you have.” She pointed at Nathalie. “Behave,” then turned and pointed at her grandma, “yourselves.”
“We always do,” her grandma said, clearly trying to look as innocent as possible.
It felt like no time passed at all before there was another knock at Annalise’s door. Her hand was actually shaking as she opened it because she was so nervous about her two worlds colliding. Maybe I should have just gone to Brinley’s apartment again.
When she opened the door, Brinley was standing there looking unfairly attractive. She was wearing tight black jeans and a low-cut white T-shirt with an open gray zip-up on top of it. She had on tall gray boots and was wearing glasses, which was completely new to Annalise.
Brinley pointed to her glasses and smiled shyly. “I have a really small prescription, but when I’ve been studying all day, I feel like I can’t see anything without these.”
“I like them.” Which was completely true. Brinley was one of those people who looked even cuter with glasses on, if that was possible. “You’ve got that whole sexy nerd look going for you. I like it.”
