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“Why would you do that to her? What’s wrong with you?”
“Allyson, come here.”
“No! Tell me now!”
“Ally, please…just come here and lie down next to me. Then, I’ll tell you.”
She hesitates for a minute before she crosses the room, climbs into bed, and lies down beside me. She looks frustrated instead of comfortable, and it’s so fucking cute on her I almost laugh.
I reach over and turn off the light, then roll onto my side and pull her into me so her back is against my chest.
“That’s better,” I say, leaning into her shoulder and smelling her hair. “You know what? You smell like lavender. It makes me sleepyandhorny now—”
“Devon,stop.”
“What?”
“Why would you do that to Darci, Devon?”
“I hate Darci,” I tell her. “I want to stab her, that’s why. Can we just go to sleep? I never get to hold you like this.”
“I can’t stay in here, Devon. She’ll know.”
“She already knows,” I tell her.
“What?”
“Ivy came over here last weekend. She told her. She didn’t mean to…I didn’t think about it.”
“Oh my god…”
“It’s okay. We’re still okay. I mean, she’s been making me do all her homework, and I haven’t gotten much sleep, but…that’ll all be over soon.”
“I’ll talk to her,” she says. “I’ll tell her to stop.”
“Ally, no—don’t. She’ll tell your aunt and uncle. She said she would and that she’d make sure I never saw you again if I didn’t do what she said.”
“She’s just mad. She’s my friend. I can talk to her, and she’ll stop.”
“No, she won’t. I don’t want to hurt you, Ally—I really don’t—but Darci won’t stop. I don’t know why she’s latched onto you so tightly, but it’s not because she’s your friend. She doesn’t care about you like you think she does. If she did, she wouldn’t do this; she wouldn’t want to hurt you.”
“Okay,” she chokes out.
“She wasthreatening to hurt you. I know I shouldn’t have done it, but that’s why I did it. I’m so sorry, Ally.”
“It’s okay,” she sniffles.
“I love you so much, Ally.”
“I love you, too,” she says.
If she’s trying to hide that she’s crying now, she’s doing a bad job of it. I wrap my arms around her a little tighter, kiss her shoulder, and bury my head in her lavender hair. I hold her there like that until, eventually, we both fall asleep.
“Shit,” I hear Ally say before she jumps out of bed.
“What? What’s wrong?”
“It’s morning,” she says. “I shouldn’t be in here—your parents are home.”
