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“Yeah?” I turned my attention back to Lilly and Jay.
“So you’ll come?”
“I guess.” It was either go or hide in my bedroom for the rest of senior year, and I’d spent too long hiding away. Not facing my problems. It wasn’t like Kendall could do much more than throw a few death stares my way or threaten me with a few scribbled notes.
Lilly cheered with excitement just as a bag slid across the table. We all looked up, and I tensed.
“What’s up?” Scarlett dropped onto the bench and shot me a half-smile. “Heard you caused quite the scene Saturday?”
“Heard you thought I’d be better off fighting my own battles?”
“Touché. Listen, about that, my bad, yeah?”
I shrugged and dropped my eyes, but Lilly hissed my name. “Yeah, I guess,” I whispered.
“So what’s up? We at Rogues tonight?”
“I’m trying to convince Becca to come,” Lilly said, a little too chipper. I knew I wasn’t going to get an apology from Scarlett, but I didn’t just want to roll over and take her shit either.
“You should come.” My eyes snapped to hers, and she nodded. “Come. It was a shitty thing we did.”
“Yeah, it was.” I held her stare, and a smirk tugged at her lips.
“You’re not going to make it easy, are you?” Scarlett chuckled.
“No chance.”
“Fair enough. I deserve that. But you’ll come tonight? Lilly gave me shit all weekend about not inviting you to The Vault, and when we heard about what Kendall did… it shouldn’t have gone down like that.”
“I’m fine. What’s done is done.”
“Kendall won’t quit. You know that. Things will get a lot worse before they get better, but we’ll deal with her. Together, got it?”
My reply lodged in my throat. I knew she was right—Kendall wouldn’t stop until she got whatever it was she wanted. I still didn’t know exactly what her problem was with me, but with Scarlett, Lilly, and the guys in my corner, maybe things wouldn’t get too ugly.
A girl could hope.
“I’ll pick you up at six.” Scarlett rose from the bench and made her way back to the main building. Lilly smiled wide.
“See, I told you she felt bad about everything.”
“I guess.”
“Oh, come on, Becca, she has a soft spot for you. That girl doesn’t apologize to anyone.” Lilly clapped her hands together. “And it means I don’t have to sneak around with you behind her back.”
“You were going to do that?”
“Well, yeah. I want us to be friends, Becca. With or without Scarlett’s blessing.”
“Okay, I think,” I said. These girls confused the hell out of me, but I liked Lilly a lot.
“Can we talk about football or sex now? Things just got way too chickified for my liking.” Jay pressed his hands down on the table, and I laughed.
For the first time in days, I actually laughed.
* * *
“I’m not going in there.”I folded my arms over my chest, trying to avoid looking directly at the faded giant clown’s mouth as it taunted me, daring me to enter its black abyss.
