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She flips me off and goes back to browsing the store. What she doesn’t realize is that nothing in here really interests me. I’m not a lingerie kind of girl. Honestly, I don’t even know that I have the confidence to try it. Not that I’m insecure. But everything with Hayes makes me nervous—in a good way, but still nervous.
“Okay, what about this?” Mali suggests.
I turn around with the no already on the tip of my tongue but stop when I see what she’s holding. It’s sexy, but in a cute kind of way. The white lacy fabric looks soft to the touch, and instead of looking like my clothes got mauled by a bear, it’s more of a bathing suit type. I purse my lips and walk closer to get a better look, and Mali is practically gleaming at the fact that I haven’t turned it down yet.
“When would I wear it?” I question.
She stares back at me, her mouth opening and closing before she decides on what to say. “Are you serious? Before you have sex. When the fuck else would you wear it?”
My eyes roll. “No. I know that. But I mean like, for what? Because it’s a Tuesday?”
“It’s Thursday,” she corrects me.
I huff. “You know what I mean!”
“Lai, you’re putting too much thought into this. It’s just something to wear that Hayes would love and would make you feel good about yourself.”
“He makes me feel good about myself.”
She chuckles. “Gag me. Stay on the topic, please.”
Grabbing it from the bottom, I pull it up to have a closer look. It really is pretty, and even if I don’t wear it right away, at least I’ll have it for when I want to. His birthdayisnext month. That would be a good time for it.
“Okay,” I cave. “I’ll take it.”
And that’s when a brilliant idea comes to mind.
I need to go shopping for something else.
IT’S LATE BY THEtime we get back to the bar. I half-expected Hayes to text me a few times, asking where I am and when we’re coming back, but he’s been relatively quiet. It isn’t until we go inside that I see why.
There’s a stack of empty beer cans strategically placed into a pyramid. It has to consist of at least thirty cans, and that’s not counting the random ones lying around. Being as it’s just the two of them, you can imagine the state they’re in.
Mali and I stop right inside the door, just in time to see Cam ride his skateboard into the tower. The whole thing collapses, but the best part is when one of them gets caught under the wheel and he busts his ass. Hayes loses it, laughing until he’s short of breath and crying. And Cam? I think his ego is more bruised than his body.
“What are you doing?” I ask, more amused than anything.
Cam stands up and runs his fingers through his hair. “Nothing. Just…you know…chillin’.”
He’s trying to seem nonchalant but he’s failing miserably. Especially when he goes cross-eyed as he looks at me. I give him a knowing look and he shakes himself out of it, blowing raspberries at me with his tongue. Then he tries to kick one of the cans and falls flat on his ass again.
Mali’s hand comes up to cover her mouth as I pinch the bridge of my nose. Hayes is practically wheezing over in the corner. I don’t know what I expected to come back to, but it definitely wasn’t this.
“What the hell happened after we left?” I ask through a laugh.
“Funny story,” Cam slurs. “We were exhausted. And overworked. We were exhaustitworked.”
Hayes gasps. “I know how to twerk!”Oh God.“Really! Devin taught me!”
He gets up, putting his hands on his knees and starting to twerk. It’s surprisingly not as bad as I thought it would be, but there’s something about his long, lean form hunched over and doing pelvic thrusts that absolutely destroys me. Mali scrambles for her phone while I watch him lose his balance and fall face first to the floor—turning his head just in time.
“I’m okay!” he calls out but doesn’t bother moving from the floor. “Oh, this is comfortable. Why haven’t I done this before?”
“No,” I whine. “Don’t fall asleep on the floor. I’m going to take you home.”
Cam goes over and lies beside him. “Thisiscomfortable. We should hang funnels from the ceiling and make it a lay-down bar.”
“Good idea!” Hayes drunkenly agrees.
