“It’s just never come up,” Fuller said, shrugging.
“Seriously?” Kodi asked. “Did you not grow up somewhere with a downtown area?”
“I grew up in New York, I didn’t really drive until I got in the league,” Fuller said.
“My ma never trusted me, so she drove me around,” Sosa said.
“Reasonable woman,” I muttered.
“Oh, shut up. I bet your mom didn’t trust you driving, either. That’s a mom thing.”
“As soon as I could drive, my mom had me driving her everywhere,” Taylor said.
“Mhmm. If my dad wasn’t around, my mom would have me drive,” I said.
“Fine. Never have I ever driven for my mom, then.”
Everyone else took a drink.
“Shit, seriously? Am I a bad son?”
I made a noncommittal noise and Kodi nudged me.
“You’re not,” she assured him. “Different families work differently.”
“I dunno, sounds disrespectful to make your mom drive you around,” Taylor mumbled and I nodded at him so he knew I was on his side.
“Anyway,” Kodi said before anyone else could shit on Sosa. “Never have I ever traveled outside the United States.”
Everyone but Fuller drank.
“Oh wait, does Canada count?” he asked and Sosa elbowed him.
“Of course Canada counts.”
“Have you seriously not gone anywhere else?” I asked Kodi.
“No,” she said with a sigh. “I’ve always wanted to go to Greece, but never had the opportunity.”
“Why Greece?”
“Oh.” She looked down with a small smile and light blush. “Because ofThe Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.”
“What’s that?”
“Dude, you don’t know aboutThe Traveling Pants?” Taylor gasped.
“It’s a book series about four best friends who found this pair of jeans that fit them all.”
“Uh-huh.”
“You clearly didn’t have sisters,” Taylor said, clicking his tongue. “My older sisters wereobsessedwith that series.”
“It was sooooo good,” Kodi whined. And something about the way she spoke, the casualness of it, warmed my heart. It was a new type of behavior from her, relaxed, open. Or I guess it was more accurate to say this was new behavior she was comfortable showing me now.
And I wanted more.
And if playing this drinking game was how I got it, then I was going to all in.
