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“Goodbye, Sis.” He gave Cole a six pack of beer and threw me a bag of chips. “Come on.”
“I invited the girls over,” Sofia called after us. “Maybe we could come hang out—”
“Don’t even think about it,” Aaron replied with a chuckle.
“Are they always like this?” I asked Cole.
“All the damn time. But Sofia is—”
“My sister. She’s my sister, asshole.”
“Seriously, you need to let that shit go,” Cole grumbled. “It was just a stupid game. Nothing happened.”
“Good,” Aaron grumbled. “And it’s going to stay that way.” He opened the door to the shed and we filed inside.
“Holy shit. This is the bomb,” Bryan dived onto the huge sectional pushed up against one wall. It divided the room in two halves, facing the television and games station, with a pool table and old-fashioned pinball machine on the other side.
“He’s right, this is pretty sweet,” I said, accepting a beer from him. “Your parents won’t mind you drinking?”
“So long as we keep it low-key they don’t mind. My dad is pretty cool like that.”
“Man, I wish my dad was that cool,” Gav said.
I didn’t reply. They both knew what an asshole my old man could be. He didn’t like me having friends over, let alone kicking back with a beer.
“Will the girls come out here?” Bryan asked, fighting a smirk.
“I hope not,” Aaron grumbled.
“Shut up, man,” Cole nudged his ribs. “You love it when Poppy comes and hangs out.”
“Oh, fuck off.”
“Poppy as in Coach’s daughter?”
He nodded. “We grew up together, we’re friends.”
“Friends friends or like friends-with-benefits friends?” Bryan waggled his brows.
“Just friends.”
“What about the blonde one… Peyton? You think I have a shot with her?”
“Peyton isn’t like most girls,” Aaron said. “She’d eat you alive.”
“And I’d enjoy every fucking second of it.”
Everyone laughed at that. But I wasn’t laughing. I was thinking about Lily. About her bright-blue eyes and soft-pink lips. I was thinking about how hurt she’d looked yesterday morning.
“You up for a game of pool?” Aaron said, snapping me out of my thoughts.
“Count me in.” I nodded.
Because anything was better than daydreaming about things I could never have.
Chapter Nine
Lily
