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Jerking away like my lips had burned her, Molloy flicked her gaze over my shoulder to where the annoying fucking girls’ voices had come. “Aw crap,” she strangled out, clamping her thighs around my hips like a vice. “We are so busted.”
For fuck’s sake.
Clearing her throat, she said, “Uh, hey, Rebecca. Hey, Danielle.”
I glanced back at my house and, for the first time in my life, I actuallywantedto go inside.
Jesus Christ.
Biting back a pained groan, I dropped my head on her shoulder for a moment while I steeled myself for the shit show that I had no doubt was about to unfold.
THIS IS ALL ON YOU
JANUARY 7TH 2004
AOIFE
“Isthat seriously Aoife Molloy I’m seeing, with Joey Lynch between her legs?” Rebecca announced in a voice laced with exaggerated admonishment, as she stood underneath a bright pink umbrella, with her pal in tow. “And behind her boyfriend’s back.” Giving me a look of snooty superiority, she tutted softly. “On the wall outside his house, no less. Wow, classy girl, Aoife. Real classy.”
“Oh, bore off, Rebecca,” I growled, unwilling to wither under her snotty judgement. “We were kissing, not riding, so tone down the disbelief. It’s not that deep.”
“Joey?” Danielle choked out, and I stared in horror as tears filled her eyes. “What are you doing with her?”
“For fuck’s sake,” Joey muttered under his breath. Inhaling a deep, steadying breath, he stepped away from me and turned to face our classmates. “Girls,” he acknowledged with a clipped nod, cheeks flushed, and lips swollen from all of our earlier kissing, as he took a stance in front of me. “What are you two doing around my neck of the woods?”
“Danielle was looking for you,” Rebecca snapped, gesturing to her tearful friend. “She wanted to make sure you were okay after what happened at school. More fool her, I guess?”
“Yeah, well, I’m fine.”
“Oh, yeah,” Danielle cried out hoarsely. “We can see just howfineyou are.”
“Don’t start,” Joey said in a low, warning tone. “I didn’t you make any promises.”
“You hadsexwith me less than a week ago!” she practically screamed. “And now you’re… you’re…” She shook her blonde head and glared at me. “What the hell, Aoife? You were supposed to be my friend! What are you even doing here?”
Iwas?
I thought we were more classmates and acquaintances than bosom buddies.
“Hey.” Jumping down from the wall, I held my hands up. “I didn’t know you had anything serious going on with him.”
“We don’t,” Joey was quick to point out. “We have nothing going on, serious or otherwise.”
“And I was just…” Trailing off, I shrugged. “Checking on him, too.”
“Liar,” Danielle screamed, face turning an unflattering shade of purple. “You saw us together the other night. You knew exactly what was happening between us.”
“She did?” Joey barked. “Well, that makes one of us.”
“You have your own boyfriend to check on,” Rebecca hissed, tone accusing, as she joined the fray and pointed a finger at me. “You do remember Paul, don’t you?”
“Oh, pack it in, Becks,” Joey sneered. “He’s far from fucking perfect himself.”
“Yeah, does Paul know what you’ve been up to?” Danielle demanded, planting her hands on her curvy hips.
“Not yet,” I drawled calmly, when I felt anything but, and resisted the urge to reach into my pocket and grab my phone. “But I’m sure that you’ll be only too happy to tell him.”
“Oh, you can bet your ass I will.” She glared at me. “He’s going to flip his lid.”
