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“And has she—”
“Ava!” Trevor cuts in. “Everything’s good. Trust me, all right?”
Ava’s shoulders drop. “Yeah, I do… I was just…”
“Worried,” he finishes for her. “But don’t be. We’re all good.” He pauses a beat. “Hey, why don’t you stay at Connor’s tonight?”
She looks up at me, her eyes wide and questioning.
I nod, maybe a little too enthusiastically.
“If that’s okay with you?” she says into the phone.
“Yeah,” Trevor responds. “It’s fine. I’ll even get up and make her breakfast so you can sleep in.”
“Are you serious right now?” Ava mumbles, almost in tears.
“Yeah, and I’ll be here until Krystal gets in.”
“Trevor…”
“Hey, I’ll even call the school and tell them you’re sick.”
Ava stares at me, her mouth agape. She asks Trevor, “What have you done to my brother?”
He chuckles. “Hey, Ava. I need you to promise me something, okay?”
“Yeah?”
“Have a good night and quit stressing!”
Ava laughs once. “I will.”
“Good, I’ll see you when I get home from work tomorrow.” He hangs up without another word, and Ava’s eyes are huge when she looks up at me. “What just happened?”
“I don’t know, but don’t question it.”
“So we have the whole night.”
“And all of tomorrow…”
“What do you want to do?”
“The possibilities are endless.”
She looks back at the house. “Do you want to drink away your loss until you can’t feel your face?”
I chuckle. “Kind of, yeah.”
AVA
Back in the pool house, we sit around with the people Connor’s spent the most time with since he got here. The only girls here are me and Karen, and it’s kind of perfect.
I’m buzzed.
Connor is drunk. And drunk Connor is a hundred times goofier than sober Connor.
Mitch makes a crack about Karen’s mom, and Karen threatens to stab him in the dick with a dart she’s holding for some unknown reason. Connor removes his arm from around me to fish out his phone, his lids heavy, thumbs slow to move as he goes through his contacts trying to find a number. He gets to Shit-For-Brains-Mitch and dials. I giggle, watching Mitch take his phone from his pocket and hold it to his ear, his eyes narrowed on Connor sitting on the floor opposite him. “What?” Mitch answers.
