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“Oh?”
I couldn’t tell if Lena was actually surprised or just faking it.
“Yeah, it’s a love album.” Maeve beamed, looking over at Tyson with stars in her eyes. “I can’t wait to hear it. Tyson is going to sing one of the songs at the wedding.”
And I think I might vomit.
“Lovely,” Lena said, and this time, I could tell she was faking it.
21
LENA
“You don’t have to do it,” Maeve said, wrapping another one of her ceramic plates in newspaper.
I shook my head. “I do. It’ll make things so much easier on my parents, and honestly, I get to pursue my dreams.”
“And get a new house.”
“Yeah,” I laughed, eyeing her. “You can go with me when it’s time for house hunting.”
“Deal,” she said, placing the plate into the box. “Sorry it’s taken me a while to come and get all my shit. I’ve just been busy with all this wedding stuff.”
“I get that.” I forced a smile and reached for another cardboard box to put together. “It’s nice of Tyson to hire a moving company to come and get it all.”
“Yeah, he wanted to hire people to pack it too, but that was a little too much luxury for me. I don’t like people touching my stuff.”
I nodded. “I don’t blame you. I don’t even know what I would do if I had that kind of unlimited funds. I’d probably just continue to live the same way I am now.”
“You’d give it all to your parents,” Maeve pointed out. “I’ve already seen the houses you’ve been looking at. They’re not priced nearly as high as the money you’re going to get.”
I hesitated. “Well, I just thought it would be nice to pay my parents back for everything. So, if I go with a cheaper place, then that makes it better for them. I don’t want them to not benefit from this at all.”
“But this is your life,” Maeve countered. “They wouldn’t take the money, even if you tried to force them to.”
“I could pay off their house though,” I said with a shrug. “I can do that without them even knowing until it’s too late for them to put up a fight about it.”
She sighed, closing up the box and taping it shut. “I don’t know.”
I eyed her as she left the kitchen, joining me in the living room. “What is it?”
My best friend ran her fingers through her freshly done platinum blonde hair and took a seat on the couch in front of me. “I think something is up with you. I know you told me a little bit about what happened with Jackson that night…but I think you’re leaving something out. Like, I don’t understand why you’re so bitter about him…”
Ugh. I hadn’t told her that we’d slept together again right before—or that I’d caught some feelings in the process.
“Just tell me what’s going on in your head, Lena. We’ve been best friends a long time, and I know when something is up with you. Don’t shut down…it just makes things harder to deal with.”
“I know…” I paused, setting the box and the tape down. “It’s just…I feel so stupid for it.”
“For accepting the deal with Jackson? I mean, I understand it’s a little weird, but it happens more than you think. You heard Genna.”
“It’s not that.” My voice dropped a few levels, and I avoided her gaze for a few moments. “It’s…it’s more than just the surface part of pretending to be with him.”
“What do you mean? Can you really just not stand him?”
I pursed my lips. How am I supposed to admit to hating him and feeling so many other things?
“Just tell me what’s going on.” She placed her hand on my knee. “It doesn’t matter what it is. I won’t judge you for it.”
