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“Tell Becca who caught you, Jay.” Scarlett snorted, lifting a hand to hide her smirk.
“My gran, okay, and it was not pretty. She stood there for like two minutes watching before she announced her presence.”
Everyone exploded with laughter, and even I mustered a smile. We’d been playing ‘never have I ever’ for twenty minutes, and so far, the questions had been nothing I couldn’t handle. I paced my drinks.Never… never… have. Unless I absolutely didn’t want to admit to something and then I just watched everyone else drink. It seemed to be working. No one knew enough about me to accuse me of cheating.
“Okay, my turn, babe.” Jay enunciated the word babe, and Vin said, “Better get ready to drink, Lil.”
“Never have I ever gotten that wasted that I peed my—”
“You bastard,” Lilly shrieked as she drank the rest of her cup and threw it at Jay’s head. He ducked, falling back onto the couch in a fit of hysteria.
“You promised!”
“Babe, it’s the only ammunition I got.” Jay pouted and made sad eyes at Lilly, who rolled hers in return.
“If you two are done, I believe it’s my turn.”Vin rubbed his jaw and concentrated like it was the ACT and not a game of ‘never have I ever.’ When a satisfied grin passed over his face, his eyes locked on mine, and he said, “Never have I banged someone way out of my league.”
For some reason, his words made me uncomfortable, as if he was trying to tell me something. To my relief, Jay cackled, “Oh man, remember that girl, what was her name… Sarah, or was it Sierra. The chick staying with her dad last summer. Rolled into town in her new convertible like Cara Devilangel.”
“It’s Cara Delevingne.”
Jay shrugged. “Like it matters when you have that much cash and a tight little body—” He grunted in pain when Lilly elbowed him in the stomach. “Joke, babe, I’m joking. Dammit, what was her name?”
“Simone,” Malachi said quietly.
Jay snapped his fingers in rapid succession. “Yeah, Simone. Oh man, you so could have tapped that sweet ass if you hadn't been too chicken shit.”
The guys launched into a dissection of Simone. How hot she’d been. How rich she was. How her stuck-up prissy attitude only made her hotter. I watched Malachi from under my lashes. Stoic and silent while his jaw clenched rhythmically, I got the impression that maybe more had happened between him and Simone than he let on to his friends. But he didn’t drink, and it occurred to me that maybe I wasn’t the only one in the room keeping secrets.
“Your turn, Becca.”
“Uh, never have I ever…” I hesitated, avoiding eye contact with the five expectant faces watching me. “Skinny-dipped in a public place.”
I hadn’t. But that was the whole point. I figured at least one person around the circle would have done it; probably Jay since he seemed to drink on most turns. And when all heads whipped around to him as he chugged his beer, I smiled to myself.
Slamming down his bottle, he held up his hands and said, “What? I like to be free.”
“In the Gregory’s cesspool with Miley?”
“You told me that wasn’t true.” Lilly threw him a look that could kill.
“Vin drank too. I don’t see you busting his balls.”
“I don’t care about what Vin does, dickhead. And I can’t believe you swam in there. The water never gets cleaned.”
“Babe, it was last summer. We weren’t even together then.”
Lilly huffed, crossing her arms over her chest. “I hate that bitch.”
I wanted to ask who Miley was, but Scarlett cleared her throat. “Prepare to drink, losers. Never have I wanted someone off-limits.” Her eyes collided with mine, and her eyebrow arched up. She’d hardly said two words to me since we arrived. It was weird, and it made me very uncomfortable.
“Lame,” Vin chimed.
“What are you?” she shot back. “The ‘never have I ever’ police?”
“Come on, Scarlett, be more specific. Are we talking teacher or best friend’s MILF?” Jay asked.
Scarlett just shrugged her shoulders and said, “Take it as you want it.”
