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Sebastian, you stupid, stupid little boy.
Party Favors
TEAGUE
“Thanks for coming guys,” Sebastian says and it’s obvious he looks nervous. He’s always nervous around Liam for reason and I don’t get it. Also, he’s always dragging us to lavish parties that Liam holds pretty much every other weekend. At the gate, the minute they see Sebastian’s face they let us in without a word.
“Impressive,” Mia says, as we step inside the club, her arm looped through mine.
“Have you ever seen Liam Delaney throw a bad party?” Someone says and it’s a female face that I recognize.
“That’s true I guess,” Mia responds to the female who is now standing right in front of us. She holds up a hand for Mia to shake and introduces herself. “Ashley Prescott.” Then she turns to me. She wears her hair different now and looks like she’s had a nose-job but it’s pretty much the same face. “Teague Connolly?” She says and I try to smile. “Oh my God, it is you! What’re the odds?”
Mia regards Ashley with a tiny bit of suspicion. “You guys know each other?”
“We went out a couple of years ago,” Ashley chimes in before I can get a word in. “Didn’t we, Teague?”
“We did,” I say simply. I want to be anywhere in the world but in a room with Ashley Fucking Prescott. “For a very short while. Barely a couple of months, right?”
“Right,” she says and smiles and turns to Sebastian. “Mr. Spanner,” she says, shaking Sebastian’s hand. “Liam won’t stop talking about you!”
Sebastian goes all embarrassed and returns her smile. “Good things I hope.”
“I don’t think Liam can talk anything bad about you,” Ashley says, and that makes Sebastian look all flushed.
Someone calls out for her and she excuses herself and I can breathe again. “You went out with her?” Mia asks, playfully. “When was this? And why have I never heard her name before?”
“It was three years ago,” I tell her. “Ashley and I met at some rave on Spring Break. Things got a little heated up. We ended up spending a whole two months instead of two weeks. It’s no big deal.”
“So that’s where you disappeared that year? You told me you were going boating with Vince!”
“Well, now you know Mia. That I went boating with Ashley.”
“Freak,” Mia says.
“There’s Liam,” Sebastian says. “I’ll go talk to him.”
He leaves and Mia and I find drinks and sit at a couch next to a couple who’s too busy making out to notice us, even when Mia starts to laugh. “Why’re you laughing?” I say to Mia in a low voice. “I remember some couch sessions with you at other people’s parties which turned into something more.”
“I know,” Mia says. “I remember.”
“So why’re you laughing at them?”
“Honestly, I don’t know. Maybe they remind me of that time.”
“You’re doing that thing where you talk like you’re seventy years old and reminiscing about the time we were young and I was able to get a hard-on without needing Viagra.”
She laughs again. “Do I do that often?”
“Pretty frequently I’d say.”
“Yeah well,” Mia says. “Guess I’m an old soul inside.”
I squeeze her hand and kiss her. “And I love both the new and the old soul,” I say. “But I can assure you our Viagra days are still far.”
“All we ever do is fuck,” Mia says.
“You say that like it’s a bad thing!”
