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India starts dancing like a robot in the middle of the parking lot, and I want to die, everyone is looking.

“Dick so good it has you hypnotize,” she raps. “It means you dickmitized, baby, baby.”

Patrick is laughing so hard he’s bent over, and I’m horrified at what is taking place. She had way too many mimosa’s.

“Biggie, Biggie can’t you see sometimes your dick just hypnotize me,” she sings, not caring that people are looking at us.

Patrick is no help, he’s still laughing.

“I hate you right now.” I grab her hand. “Let’s go.”

“Oh my God, are you mad?” India whines. “Don’t be mad at me, B Money.”

Rolling my eyes, I smile. “I’m not mad.” I click my key fob to unlock the doors to my car.

“Good,” she says sliding into the back seat. “It’s not my fault he abracadabra you with his dick.”

I slam her door close. “India, shut up.”

Once I’m in the driver’s seat, I glare at Patrick, who is red from laughing, then to India through the rear-view mirror. She swings her index finger in the air like a freaking wand. I can’t help but laugh.

“You are so annoying,” I tell her. “If I didn’t love you, I would leave your ass here. No more mimosas for you.”

She just laughs, and Patrick follows suit. I swear, they make me so mad, but I love them. They get me, they are my people. Even if they embarrass me in public.

My dad surprises me with where we’re going for dinner. Lately, we have been going to these fancy places and, while I enjoy a good steak and wine, I could also go for a margarita and a burger. So, when he said we were meeting at Island’s Burger, I was not complaining. Also, I don’t have to dress up, I can actually wear jeans tonight. So, when I slide on my favorite stretchy distressed jeans, I’m in heaven. Perfect for dinner then going to Cuba’s after.

I haven’t talked to him since earlier, and I think he’s still pouting. He’ll get over it.

After pulling a soft cream thin pull over on, and sliding into my sparkly chucks, I finish packing my overnight bag, hoping I don’t forget anything. I rarely stayed over at Dex’s, and he barely came to my place. Our sex life was already dead, maybe that’s why he cheated. I’m going to try and not think about that.

Once I have my bags in the back seat of my car, I send my dad a quick text letting him know I’m on my way. Then I debate on texting Cuba, I might as well in case he changes his mind on me coming over. I toss my phone in my cup holder after sending him, a quick text.

Thankfully, the location my dad chose wasn’t too far from me, which makes me think he’ll actually be going home and not back to the office. He needs to meet someone, I have told him this, but he just waves me off and says he’s fine. Same with my mom, she won’t date either. I wonder why they really got divorced when they are still hung up on each other, but they’ll deny it.

When I pull up the restaurant and park, I pick up my phone with one text, my dad, saying he has a booth, but nothing from my boyfriend. I’m not going to deal with this tonight. This weekend was amazing, and I felt we covered some ground, but now he’s back to how he was. He’s closing up.

If he doesn’t text back by the time I leave then I’ll just go home, and we can go back to being what we were before. Nothing.

Checking my face in my compact mirror, I take a deep breath. I don’t want my dad to pick up on anything that might be wrong. I was going to tell him about Cuba tonight, but I’ll wait, since he is radio silent. No point of saying anything when I could possibly be single tomorrow.

The hostess directs me right to my dad and gives me a funny look. I’m used to girls falling over my dad, he looks young for his age so there are times people think we are dating. It’s really disgusting.

“Hey, Dad,” I say loudly enough to make the hostess blush as she scurries away.

My dad laughs. “Hey, baby girl.”

I slide onto the bench across from him. “Thank you for choosing somewhere normal for once.” I pick up the menu even though I know I’m going to order the same thing as always.

“Yeah, I figured I deserve a burger.” He smiles. “And I knew you wouldn’t turn it down.”

“Never turn down a free meal,” I say before the waitress comes to get our drink orders, and since we already knew what we wanted, we put our order in at the same time.

“So, how is your case going?’’ I ask once the waitress is gone.

He winces and chuckles.

“That bad?”

“It could be worse, but you know I got this, baby girl,” he assures me.

“I’m sure you do, dad.” I never doubt him.

He starts to ask about school and if I’m still planning on tutoring in my free time. I’m about to answer him when I see something in the corner of my eye. I can see the door to the restaurant open, with a bunch of people cramming through it, loudly laughing, a few girls giggling. Then I see three very familiar faces, one of them that is clearly ignoring my texts. My new boyfriend is here with Ash, Cam, another guy, and three girls, the curvy redhead looks very taken by him. My eyes narrow at her hand that is running down his arm then smile when I see him shake her off. Still, he’s ignoring me.

“You okay?” My dad asks breaking my gaze and I blink, looking back to him.

“Yeah, just saw someone I know.” No way am I going to tell him that my boyfriend is here with a bunch of skanks.

When I look back, they are gone. Now I’m going to be distracted knowing he’s here and not talking to me.

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