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“You’re in luck. Those are the last two here. They’ve been selling like hotcakes. I guess that’s what happens when they are made by the best baker in town,” Dad said about Mama as he gave me a slight wink. Gosh, he loved that woman so much. It would’ve been gross if it wasn’t so cute.
We grabbed the cookies and walked to the side to eat them. Kate stared down at the sugar cookie in complete awe.
“What is it?” I asked.
“Nothing, nothing. It’s just… very realistic.”
I laughed. “I think that’s the point.”
“No offense, Hailee, because I know he’s your ex and all, but Aiden Walters might be the sexiest man alive.”
“That’s what the magazines seem to think,” I agreed.
“I mean, look at him. Those blue eyes! Those luscious waves of brown hair.”
“You’re drunk.”
“Tipsy.” She giggled. It was no secret that my friend was a lightweight, just like me. I felt a nice buzz going on. “But that doesn’t change the fact that everything I’m saying is actual and factual. Never in my life did I want to sit on a cookie just to know what it would be like to sit on Aiden Walters’s face.”
“Kate!” I gasped, laughing as I linked my arm around hers and pulled her away from the crowd that overheard. “You’re ridiculous.”
“Did you do it, Hailee?” she asked, eyes wide with hope. “Did you ever sit on Aiden’s face?”
My cheeks felt flush, and I shook my head. “I refuse to answer that question.”
Kate gave me a devilish smile and nodded. “You little freaky freak. What other kinds of stuff did you do? Reverse cowgirl?”
“This conversation is over.”
She bit into the cookie and moaned, having the most orgasmic bite of her life. She closed her eyes and waved her hand in the air as if she’d died and gone to heaven. “This is the best cookie I’ve ever eaten.”
That made me happy. I took a bite of mine, too. Just as great as the night before. “It’s amazing,” I agreed.
“It’s not the first time you shoved Aiden between your lips, huh? I bet he’s quite the mouthful.”
“I’m done with you.”
She grinned and took a sip of her lemonade. “Never.”
We moved around the festival as the sky darkened over our heads and sparkled with stars. The more we drank, the less worry I had about running into Aiden. Liquid courage and all. The amount of confidence bursting from my seams was ridiculous, but I didn’t care. I felt good. Life was weird, sometimes, so whenever there was an opportunity to feel good, I bathed in the joy.
Kate kept up the good time by buying me way too much fried food, and when our water bottles ran out of drinks, she purchased us alcoholic slushies. My toilet was going to have hell to pay come tomorrow morning, from either the top end of me or the bottom, but I didn’t care. I felt like a kid again.
“Aren’t you happy you came out tonight?” Kate urged after she drunkenly won me a stuffed tiger from a carnival game. She was leaning on me because her steps were zigzagging, and I leaned back on her because mine were doing the same. “We didn’t even run into—oh shit,” she muttered as we turned the corner, and without looking, I ran straight into a person, spilling my pink slushy all over them.
“Oh, my goodness, I’m so sorry I…” My words faded as I looked up to meet the person’s stare.
Not just any person.
My person.
Correction: my ex-person.
Aiden.
There he was, right in front of me, looking at me square in the eyes. Those blue eyes that seemed to match the deepest parts of the ocean. Those blue eyes that I’d loved since I was a little girl. Those blue eyes that made my heart shatter into a million pieces right then and there.
A white cotton T-shirt hugged his body, showcasing his toned arms, a T-shirt that was now stained pink.
