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“Why wait? I’ll walk you home.”
She straightens up the same way she did the first time I tried to do her a favor. “Oh, no,” she says, predictably. “I’ll be fine here. You don’t have to do that.”
“I want to,” I say. “I need to walk this buzz off, anyway. Shanty’s not too far, and…” I study her face. “I think we should talk.”
She blinks. After a quiet moment, she nods. “… Okay.”
I stand up and offer her my hand. She looks at it, her bright cheeks flushing softly in the dark before she takes it and rises off the stair.
“Yo, Heidi.”
She releases my hand and we turn around to find a guy briskly walking up the sidewalk toward the house.
“Hey, Bobby,” she says.
Bobby?
Who’s Bobby?
Before jealousy even gets a chance, the guy plows past us.
“Is Jenna in there?” he asks.
“Yeah,” Heidi answers.
“Thanks.”
He throws open the door and bolts right inside as Heidi takes her phone from her pocket.
I squint. “What was that about?” I ask.
“That…” Heidi smirks as she fires off a quick text, “was the sound of you dodging a massive bullet,” she quips.
“Ah.” I wince. “I suddenly feel terrible for Jack.”
She lowers her phone. “I wouldn’t worry about it. Jenna has a way of diffusing these things.”
I nod. “Then, shall we go?”
“I gave Jenna a head’s up that I’m leaving, so… yeah.” She smiles, nervous and adorable. “Let’s go.”
CHAPTER 9
HEIDI
“So, I didn’t know that you were Heidi Newbury.”
I laugh as I stare at the sidewalk. A full block of nothing but silent steps, and Drew breaks the tension with that?
“I didn’t know that you were Seth’s best friend,” I say.
Drew nods. “He tell you that?”
“Yeah. He said you were a real shirt off his back type of guy.”
“Aw, shucks!” he says with a grin. “He oversold me!”
“He certainly did. You’ve been nothing but a big jerk to me since the moment we met.”
