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Hadley broke out into a grin that was definitely going to get me smacked. “Yes?” she asked.
“Barlow tells me you guys need a ride on the weekend?” I said, avoiding looking at Rio.
Hadley sat up straighter and flicked her hair back. “We do.”
“Sweet. Well, let me know if you find one. I need one, too.”
I gave her my sexiest smirk and hit my board again.
Moments later, Rio smacked into me, and we both went down.
“Fucker, I was joking,” I told him as he got up.
He pushed me back to the cement. “I’m gonna give you a pass because you just got your heart broken, but you try that again and I will fuck you up.”
I snorted. “Why don’t you ask her out, then?”
He glared at me but didn’t say anything.
I snorted harder. “You did and she said no.”
He huffed and held his hand out to help me up. “It wasn’t meant to be a date or anything.”
I couldn’t begrudge him that. Guy had it bad, and I was starting to know how that felt. Seems neither of us could have what we wanted. It was only one reason we made such good companions.
We dropped our dispute, as petty as it was, and went back to skating which was not helping my hip. I intimately knew everything there was to know about taking your shit out on other people. If Rio needed to vent shit, then he could vent it on me, and I wouldn’t hold it against him.
A little while later, I saw Piper start heading for the bus.
“Oh, no,” I muttered. “None of that.”
“What?” Steve asked as I hurried over to my bag.
“He’s chasing tail,” Rio said, sounding bitter.
“Fuck off,” I told him.
“You are, though.”
“I didn’t deny it,” I snapped, then followed after Piper like I’d implode if I got too far away from her.
I dropped my arm around her shoulder, and she yelped. I laughed as she smacked me and pulled her headphones off. I hadn’t seen her in those headphones in a while.
“Do you mind?” she asked.
“Not particularly,” I said as I flicked my butt away.
“How’s your ankle?” she asked.
“Fine,” I told her, because it was. It was my hip that was fucked.
“Good.”
“I’ll let you put your music on if you let me drive you home,” I said, glad she didn’t press about my injury.
She stopped walking and frowned at me like she was testing me. “As loud as I want?”
I dropped my head back dramatically, like her turning her shitty music up as loud as she wanted was a hardship. “Yes.”
