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“Shoot,” she said.
“Well, you know I love Levi, right?”
“Yep. We both love him.”
“We do. We absolutely do.” This was becoming far more difficult than I’d hoped.
“We’re his best girlfriends. But you’re the one who does all the yucky kissing stuff.”
I laughed out loud. “I am, that’s true.”
“Zoe kissed her new boyfriend. I saw her last week. He put his tongue in her mouth. It was gross!” Sophie used her hands to emphasize exactly how gross she thought it was, which kept me in stitches.
“So no kissing for you,” I said. “At least not any time soon.”
“Nope. No kisses. Yucko.”
Zoe snickered behind me, but Sophie seemed oblivious to it.
“So here’s the deal,” I said, trying to bring the conversation around. “I wanted to know how you’d feel about it if I married Levi.”
“You’re gonna marry Levi?” she said so loudly that half the heads in the room turned to stare at us. Then she stood up. “Mom! Cadence is gonna marry Levi! We get to go to the wedding.”
“I guess that means you’re all right with it?” I said, laughing as she threw herself into my arms again.
“We can come to the wedding, right? ’Cause I just told Mom we could.” Then she let go of me and pulled back enough that she could look in my face. She dropped her voice low. “Zoe told me that when you get married, there’s lots of kissing. I don’t wanna kiss Levi. I just want to love him. You can do all the kissing.”
“Well, in that case”—I pinched her nose until she giggled—“I guess we’d better go ask your Mom if you can be my junior bridesmaid. If you want to be, of course.”
“Mom!” she shouted again. “I’m gonna be a bridesmaid.”
I supposed that settled that. Now all I had to do was tell Levi, and convince Sophie to bite her tongue about it long enough for me to be the one to tell him. Sophie and secrets were a complicated equation, but I had a feeling she would do her best.
BY THE TIMEthe guys made it upstairs after the game, my head was definitely pounding. I probably shouldn’t have come to the game tonight. Watching it on TV at home would have been much more sensible. Still, I was glad I’d come, since it had given me the opportunity to speak with Sophie face-to-face.
It didn’t matter how glad I was of it, though. The second Levi walked in and saw my face, he said, “You look miserable.”
“Thanks,” I said, trying to laugh it off. “Here I was, about to tell you that you look good enough to eat, and you tell me I look miserable. Really gives a girl a jolt of self-confidence.”
He reached for my hand to help me up. Then I thought he was going to draw me in for a hug or a kiss, but instead he lifted me into his arms. “I’ll take you home and make it up to you,” he said softly in my ear.
“Is that a promise?”
“Mm hmm. Now let’s get you out of all the noise, okay?”
I didn’t complain. Not even when he carried me over to Sophie and Paige to collect a hug from his other best girlfriend, and then proceeded to carry me out of the owner’s box, through the corridors, down the elevator, into the parking garage, and all the way to his car.
He opened the door and set me in the passenger seat, pecking me on the nose before closing the door behind me.
I pouted when he climbed in on his side.
“What’s the pout for?”
“Don’t I deserve a better kiss than that?”
“I don’t know.” He started the car and backed out of his space. “Have you done anything to deserve a better kiss?”
I shrugged and nibbled on my lower lip, doing my best to look innocent. “Well… I had my talk with Sophie tonight.”
