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I mean I want you to and I don’t want you to
Cassie [12:02 AM]
I mean I want to kiss you
Erin [12:03 AM]
I thought you didn’t have a habit of drunk texting.
Cassie [12:03 AM]
I don’t
Erin [12:04 AM]
What do you call this?
Cassie [12:04 AM]
It’s not a habit. You’re just more interesting than Parker’s friends
That was mean; her friends were perfectly nice. But Cassie would’ve much rather been interacting with Erin than anyone here, nice as they may be. She could get drunk with college kids any time. She only had a week left with Erin.
Erin [12:06 AM]
Maybe they’d be more interesting if you actually talked to them instead of texting me.
Cassie was going to reply that that was very definitely not true, but Parker shouted from across the room, “Who are you sexting over there, Klein?”
“Your mom,” was out of her mouth before she could stop herself.
Parker rolled her eyes and went back to her conversation with Caleb. Cassie put her phone away.
The next morning, Cassie woke up cramped on a couch with Madison. She didn’t quite remember going to sleep last night, and couldn’t imagine she’dagreedto share a couch. Everyone else waspassed out around the room. Parker had a couch to herself, Caleb on the floor beside her. Cassie wished she was still asleep, but it seemed her body had gotten used to waking up earlier than usual. She made her way upstairs in search of breakfast.
She found Haylee’s dad, sitting at the kitchen table reading the newspaper.
“Good morning,” she said.
“Good morning—Cassie, was it?”
She nodded. “Mind if I snag a cup of coffee?”
“Mugs are in that cabinet,” he said. “There’s nondairy hazelnut creamer in the fridge.”
Cassie turned away to hide her grimace. Nondairy hazelnut creamer. Yum.
She ended up needing the creamer, though, because the coffee itself was burnt and bitter. She wanted to pour it down the sink.
“Can you believe Congress these days?” Haylee’s dad asked.
He went on about something he was reading in the paper so Cassie couldn’t even escape to a bathroom and get rid of the coffee where he wouldn’t see. Instead she was stuck talking to him until Haylee came upstairs. Cassie took the first opportunity she got to book it back to the basement, leaving her mug on the kitchen counter.
Everyone else was at least partially awake by then. Caleb and Madison trash-talked each other as they raced in Mario Kart, Parker a yawning spectator. Cassie threw herself beside Parker on the couch.
“Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed or something?” Parker asked.
“We slept on couches,” Cassie snapped, basically proving Parker’s point.
