“Okay, I got it.” He laughs again, nodding his head as he pulls his phone out, pressing on the screen. “Hey.” He says into it. “Yeah… if I drop a pin, can you do me a favor?” he laughs again. “Look, it’s best if you don’t ask any questions. Thanks, man.” He ends the call, taps a couple more times, and then looks at me.
Sitting in the car in silence now, Eli reaches over, pulling me to his side. We sit in a weird silence, not because it’s awkward, but quite the opposite.
“You never told me why…”
He says nothing, just gives me a confused look.
“Sketch?”
“Oh,” he laughs, shaking his head. “Cause I was like 10 and thought I was clever.”
It’s my turn to give him a confused look.
“Drew… draw… Sketch. You see how I got there?”
Shaking my head, I can’t help but laugh loudly as he says it. “You’re an idiot.”
“Probably.” He just shrugs.
18
The headlights pull up behind the car as Collins comes to a stop. Turning the car off as he gets out, walking over to the cruiser and looking in. The windows are still fogged enough that we can’t see his face.
“Just open the damn door.” I shout through the window.
I feel Drew freeze next to me, and I give her a reassuring look, trying not to look at her shirt she had just tied back together.
“It’s okay.”
Collins opens the door as he steps away from the car, and we get out. He’s shaking his head and I can tell trying to conceal a smirk.
“You locked yourself in the back?”
“That part was an accident.” Shrugging, “I left it cracked.”
I can feel Drew’s embarrassment as she shifts from one foot to the other. I reach out, grabbing her hand as she tries to walk away.
“Thanks, man, I owe you.”
He slowly shakes his head. “What about the cameras?” He asks, serious for a moment, and I can feel Drew go rigid next to me.
“I’m not dumb; I disabled all of them beforehand.”
He nods his head again.
“Okay.” Then walks back to his car.
As he pulls off, I walk Drew back up to her car and lean in, kissing her.
Is it risky out here in the open like this? Yes. But everything in the last half hour has been risky, and honestly, I’m already getting hard again thinking about it all.
“I have an idea.”
“What’s that?”
“Let’s get out of the city for a couple of days.”
She tilts her head, looking at me as she slides back into the driver’s seat.
