Page 31 of Unmasking My Dark Knight

Nervously, I smiled. “I was really flustered that night, and I may not have wanted to talk about the clown,” I said.

“If it’s that one clown with the skates, he’s majorly hot,” Jasmine said, fanning her face.

“Famous too! He’s all over social media,” Hollie said, dancing in her seat. She pulled out her phone, swiping at the app.

“Famous?” I asked, dropping the wedding favor in my hand.

“You’re not talking about High Jynx, are you?” Tallulah asked. “You actually got to see him?”

“He takes a lot of photos with the girls,” Hollie said, showing me the phone.

I yanked it out of her hand and stared down at the screen, and there he was. High Jynx was on some random girl’s social media page, sliding out of the fog, swooping his hair out of the way. It had over a hundred thousand likes and thousands of comments.

“Holy shit!” I squeaked. “Crap. I mean… holy crap.” I didn’t realize he was so popular. Was he like some unofficial mascot of the Scare Park? Photos flooded the feed, him posing quickly with groups of fans before running off in another direction, grinning and howling.

I swallowed hard. I could feel his hands on me again, pulling me close, sucking me into his world.

“Oh my god, his hair, his body, everything about him is sexy,” Jasmine added. “Why do you always get the attention?”

“It’s okay to keep your mouth shut most of the time, Jasmine,” I said.

Just then, Romeo walked into the dining room where we were all sitting. He took one look at us with wide eyes. He and I locked eyes momentarily. My stomach fluttered as if liquid lava had been dropped into it. My freaking body betrayed me!

“Hi,” Jasmine tried to call him over.

He smiled and waved.

“Wrong room. I’m looking for the groomsmen. Gustav said something about playing golf with us.”

“Have you looked outside?” I snipped unnecessarily.

“Right,” he said. “I was asking Tallulah. You know. The bride,” he said sarcastically.

“Ignore her, Romeo. We all do when she’s feisty. The guys are just around back, past the garden,” Tallulah said.

Romeo stole a couple of glances my way before saying goodbye to all of us. I kinda smiled at that. Not because I liked the guy, he just so happened to be infuriatingly observant. He had a way of embedding his eyes into me, and admittedly, it reminded me of when I was younger… some old foolish feeling I had when I was around him.

“We love a shy boy,” Hollie said with a smirk, looking over at Tallulah like they had their own secret language.

Jasmine squealed as he left. “Have you all seen how hunky Romeo Scott is? I remember him back in high school, and he did NOT look like that.” Jasmine fanned herself like an idiot, her mouth parted open.

“I tried telling Ivy Jade to go after him! She isn’t listening to me,” Tallulah said.

I opened my mouth and pretended to gag on my finger. “Yuck.”

Jasmine looked so annoyed. “Of course you’d gag. You couldn’t handle someone like him.”

Ew. I squinted at her with my twisted lips.

“I love those papi vibes he gives off,” Hollie added, biting her lip. “And who doesn’t love a guy in a cardigan? Holy hotness! I’m digging his broodiness.”

Tallulah laughed so hard, I thought her strawberry smoothie was about to shoot out of her nose.

“He’s not that hot, you guys,” I said. “It’s literally Romeo. He looks like every other guy out there.” He was downright annoying. They had to see that, right?

“What world do you live in, cause I’d rather avoid it at all costs,” Jasmine said sarcastically.

I circled the air with my finger. “No vacancy anyway, sorry.”