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I have a bad feeling about this. Even if she did see us inside, how did she know this was my car? “Oh, well. Hi, then. How are you?”
“Been better, honestly,” she says, pushing herself up to standing and reaches into the back pocket of her jeans.
I take a half step away from her. Something is off.
Thankfully, she only pulls out her phone. “You should see this.”
Willow sticks the phone right in my face, so close I can’t read it at first. As my eyes focus, I realize I’m looking at a text chain. To Drew.
There’s a picture of her in her underwear.
Then a message from Drew.
We need to talk. ASAP.
Followed by:
Yes, sir ;)
I frown. “What is this?”
“I’m just letting you know, he isn’t who he says he is. And I like you, Dana. I do. I don’t think you deserve to be hurt.”
I swallow and look at the texts again. Drew’s “We need to talk” doesn’t seem positive. But the way Willow is looking at me with sadness in her eyes doesn’t help. “So, what happened after these texts?”
“We met up for coffee. Don’t worry. He didn’t cheat.” Willow shrugs. “Not yet.”
Willow is not a girls’ girl. I know that much. In fact, I knew it when Gillian was just a kid and Willow was still a part of their friend group. She was the type who’d push you to tell you about a crush and then, once she knew, would go after him so you could never have him.
Not a girls’ girl at all.
“Look, I’m not a perfect person. I’ve had my heart broken just like anybody else. But you’d think a guy would stay with the girl who supported him while his mother was dying.”
I frown. “It’s not that simple.”
“Right, I forgot, you know all about that time in his life, being his counselor and all.” She hums in laughter. “Isn’t it funny I drove him right into your arms?”
“It wasn’t like that at all.”
Willow holds her hands up innocently. “I’m not claiming to know. Sorry.”
We stare at each other.
“I just thought me and him were bound. After he chose me over her.”
My brain is starting to spin. I’m exhausted and this isn’t helping. “What are you talking about?”
“Oh, he didn’t tell you? Drew was with me the night his mother died. Instead of with her.”
I start to open my mouth to retort, but I have nothing to say.
I didn’t know that.
“Us and a couple friends. But still.” Willow shrugs. “He went home with me. And he wasn’t with her when she died.”
I knew that much. But Drew always said it happened while he was asleep. At home. I guess he was asleep. He just wasn’t alone.
He chose to be with Willow instead.
