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TWENTY-SEVEN
Brooke
Austin called the next morning and invited me to breakfast. He sounded hungover, and sorry. I agreed to meet him, but walked over instead of letting him drive me. We both needed to say we were sorry. We both needed the truth.
“So, what are we going to do about the Jocelyn situation?” He asked after we ordered.
I smiled at the word “we.”
“Well, I should move out right away, but I have nowhere else to go. And I feel sorry for her. She’s not going to be able to come up with the money to break the lease.”
“Is your name on it?”
“Yeah, but I’ve got some money saved up. I can pay a few months to get out of there, but I still don’t have anywhere to go.”
“You could move in with me?”
“And Trey and your other roommates? No thank you.”
He laughed.
“They’re not that bad.”
“It’s going to be a big enough adjustment living with you.”
“Oh, yeah? You think so?”
I felt his hand rubbing my back.
“You don’t?”
He glanced away a moment.
“Yeah, I guess it freaks me out too. We fight so much.”
“Over stupid stuff,” I said.
“Mostly stupid.”
“I didn’t mean like unimportant stupid. Jocelyn is causing a lot of drama. I thought I could trust her, but now…”
My voice trailed off.
“You don’t trust her anymore?”
“No, and I do trust you.” I stared into his eyes. “Can I trust you?”
He answered with a kiss as the waitress returned with our medium pineapple and ham pizza and pitcher of iced tea.
“Thank you,” Austin said to the waitress.
She walked away.
“Do you thinking someone actually even threatened her, or do you think she made it all up?” He asked.
“It makes sense why she ran out of the police station so fast. But honestly, I have no idea. You know what she’s like. She could have plenty of enemies out there.”
“We need to agree that Jocelyn isn’t going to come between us.”
