When I wake up Saturday afternoon, there’s a message waiting.
Mackie
I have to run an errand this afternoon
want to come?
Me
What kind of errand?
Mackie
you’ll see :)
Me
Pick me up at 3?
Mackie
see you then
I have hours to kill. I sit on my couch and stare at the wall and my phone lights up every ten minutes.
Rodriguez
yo you home?
hello?
ZACH
I’m coming over
actually nevermind Dex wants food
you want food?
bro it’s been 45 minutes
are youdead
genuinely asking
I read every single one and set the phone face down. Rodriguez can smell a girl from three zip codes away and the last thing I need right now is him showing up at my door and taking one look at my face and knowing everything. He would never let it go. He would make it a big deal. He would probably want to meet her.
When her text comes I’m already at the door.
8
MACKIE
“Are you ready for an adventure?”are the first words out of my mouth when he gets into my car, and I don’t mean for them to sound ominous but they definitely do.
He gives me a look, eyebrows up, mouth slightly open, and I laugh because if I’ve learned anything over the past few weeks of getting to know Zach it’s that he’s basically down for anything but he never would have turned a trip to the pet store for cat food into an adventure. He would have had the food delivered and called it a day.
“What kind of adventure?”
