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I need to get out of this line and do something other than stand here, listening to how messed up my life is right now.
He walks up to me and nods. “Yeah, I’ll take you on every ride if you want.” He places my hair behind my ear. “Look at me.” He raises my head with his finger under my chin.
Tears threaten to fall, and I’m trying to blink them back the best I can. Lane brushes his thumb on my cheek when one tear escapes. He then slides his hand inside the cotton candy bag and places a piece on my lips, and when I open, it melts on my tongue, tasting sweet.
“Does it taste good?”
I nod, and Exie comes into view, concern marring her expression. “You okay, Aura?”
“Yeah,” I say after swallowing.
“Forget about the stupid bear. Let’s go have fun. Don’t listen to her.” Exie turns her head at a glaring Sarah and Wendy. “They all deserve each other,” she says loud enough for them to hear.
The line moves along, but we step out of it and right before we leave. We hear Sarah raise her voice. “Are you kidding me, Kalum?”
Kalum’s face is hard and murderous. “We’re over. Find a ride home.”
“You’re making a mistake. Any guy would kill to be with me.”
Kalum sneers, and he waves his hand toward the crowd of people rubbernecking. “Well, hurry up because they are all waiting, including Jimmy.” Her face is red like a bomb waiting to explode. She crosses her arms in a huff, embarrassed.
“You’re going to regret it,” she says in a shaky voice.
Kalum laughs sarcastically. “I regret entertaining the thought of you.” He clenches his teeth. “I’m done. And stay away from Aura.”
14
KALUM
The look of hurt on Aura’s face when Sarah mentioned her parents had me seeing red. This time Sarah went too far, and I care too much about Aura to allow a selfish bitch like Sarah hurt her.
Then I had to watch Lane Turner striding to her like her savior, touching her. The way she whispered something softly to him and then he fed her the cotton candy was so intimate.
I wanted to punch his fucking lights out. I figured she would meet Lane since she is good friends with Exie, but what gutted me the most was when he swiped her cheek and I saw the bracelets on his wrist. She made one for him.
Lane and I go way back, friends since high school. He would talk about cars and race on the backroads to see which car we could push faster. The guy is a genius in the race car world. He can build any car. I respect and admire him. He is self-made and a good guy.
Since he is a year older and graduated before me, I expected him to follow in his parents’ footsteps like all rich kids do and take over their company or attend college first. Lane did neither. He attended a mechanic school and is now a certified mechanic and works on many makes and models.
It is his passion, and he is living his dream on his terms and has made a lot of money on his own. Lane didn’t need a trust fund or daddy’s help. He made money on the street fixing cars and opened his own shop.
I stomp around the fair alone in a fit of rage. I should have taken Aura to the fair and broken it off with Sarah earlier. Sarah and her friends hate girls like Aura and Exie because they don’t need to be fake or obvious.
I stop in front of a similar game with those ridiculous oversized bears hanging from a fence, and I wave at the attendant.
“I’ll play the game, but how much do you want for all of them?”
“Excuse me?” he asks, not sure if he heard me correctly.
I swipe a hand over my face. “You heard right? How much?”
He knows I want the bears, so I’m sure he’ll inflate the price, but I don’t care. I’ll do anything to put a smile on Aura’s face and redeem myself.
“You have to play ten hands, and then I’ll give you a price for all of them.” He places twenty buckets of about fifty rings on the edge of the wooden area. “Is it for your girlfriend?” he asks, wiping his beard with a knowing grin.
I pull back the sleeves of my hoodie. “I’m hoping she will be, if I didn’t already ruin my chance with her.”
The old man chuckles, combing his long gray beard with his fingers. “When the right girl smiles, she becomes a question to the man interested in her. That man could spend his whole life trying to find the answer.”
