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I’m walking around the fair alone in a fit of rage. I should have taken her to the fair and broken it off with Sarah. Sarah and her friends hate girls like Aura and Exie because they don’t have to try to get a guy’s attention. They don’t have to be fake or obvious.
I stop in front of a similar game that has those ridiculous oversized bears hanging from a fence and I wave at the attendant.
“I’ll play the game but how much do you want for all of them?”
“Excuse me?” he asks, not sure if he heard me correctly.
I swipe a hand over my face. “You heard right? How much?”
He knows I want the bears, so he inflates the price but I don’t care. I want Aura, and I’ll do anything to put a smile on her face and redeem myself.
“You have to play ten hands and then I’ll give you a price for all of them.” He places twenty buckets of about fifty rings on the edge of the wooden area. “Is it for your girlfriend?” he asks, wiping his beard with a knowing grin.
I pull back the sleeves of my hoodie. “I’m hoping she will be, if I didn’t already ruin my chance with her.”
The old man chuckles, combing his long gray beard with his fingers. “When the right girl smiles, it becomes a question to a man that is interested in her. That man could spend their whole life trying to find the answer.”
The rings cling against the bottlenecks as I throw one after the other, missing most of them. Tell me about it, old man. After the third bucket, my wrist aches and I have made about four so far.
After two hours, my phone dings letting me know Aura is home. I had Camila send me a text when she made it home safe.
She said her friend Exie dropped her off and not Lane. Even if Lane and I go way back, I stay out of his way and he stays out of mine.
Except when we race once a month at the track in the fall when the temperatures cool, letting his latest build and my Lamborghini run at optimal speed. Since he made his own money refusing to take over his father’s conglomerate, it forced his parents to leave most it to Exie.
The worst part about him being around Aura is that she sees him as her hero and I’m the villain. Brian walks up to me while I settle with the old man and the ten bears he has left.
“Need help?” Brian asks.
I nod. “Yeah.”
“Is this for who I think it is?”
I grab three of the bears and lift them. “Is it that obvious?”
He chuckles. “You are really into her, aren’t you?”
“I should ask you the same thing. The looks you give Exie is enough for me to figure out. Pushing her away is only going to make her run into the arms of someone else.”
Brian’s nostrils flare and his jaw tics. “Oh yeah? Like who? We warned everyone away from them and banned them from my parties. Who in their right mind would defy us at Spencer.”
I shake my head, handing him three of the bears. “The guy that was standing close to her in the line checking out her ass while her brother was buying food. That’s who.”
Brian’s fist clenched on his grip on the bear. “Easy. Don’t fuck up the bear before I surprise her. She was waiting in the line hoping to win one.”
Brian snorts. “Yeah, before the queen bitch spit her vitriol at them. Aura was right. She is annoying. So is Wendy. I wish they came with an off switch so they could shut the fuck up.”
We make it with the bears and three giant trash bags with the rest of furry stuffed animals to the parking lot. Thank God Brian brought his truck and they all would fit. Try fitting ten oversized bears inside a sports car.
He closes the back passenger door of his truck. “How is it going to work if she agrees to give your sorry pigheaded ass a chance after you have treated her less than dirt?”
I open the door to my Lambo and the door swings up. “How is what going to work?”
“Her cleaning all the toilets and working for your parents,” he volleys back.
I slide inside the red leather seat and close the door, start the massive engine, and roll the window down when he does the same his front passenger window rolling down. “That’s easy, she doesn’t. With me or not. I’ll make sure to take care of her.”
I just hope she chooses me.
