Page 97 of Heartsick & Lipsticks
“I emailed you the evite, but I just wanted to let you know it’s coming,” Jada said before walking back the way she’d come.
Panic rose inside of me. If Jada knew that we’d hooked up, I wondered who else knew. Did Naomi, Parker, or Carmen? I was pretty sure if Lola or Callie suspected anything, I’d be the first to know. Or maybe not. After hearing Lola talking to Naomi last week, it was clear she didn’t tell me everything.
My mind was going a mile a minute as Ri joined me again. “Why do you look like the time my dad caught us smoking weed in the backyard?”
I still felt mortified that Mr. Marsh had caught us. Ri hadn’t cared at all. She was more of a ‘ask for forgiveness than ask for permission sort of a girl.’ But not me. I’d been mortified.
“Jada just invited me to Nick’s surprise fortieth birthday,” I whispered, even though we were a safe distance away—out of anyone’s earshot.
“Oh cool. Kurt just invited me to go as his date. We can all go together.”
“I’m not going.”
“Why not?”
“Because I have no reason to go.”
“Of course you do. You’ve been living in the man’s house for a month, and he just threw your daughter this amazing birthday party. You’d be an asshole if you didn’t go.”
Crap. I hadn’t thought about it that way. Ri was right. He’d done so much for me that the least I could do was go to his fortieth birthday. Even if it would kill me to see him with another woman.
