Page 144 of Faking Cinderella
All three of us stare at him.
He winks at me. “You’re welcome.”
Now Jack and Decker are glaring at me again too.
“Would’ve said thanks before you said I was welcome,” I tell Lucky.
“Hey,” Margie says behind them. “Do you know I haven’t gone hiking at all since I got here? And I have to work tomorrow. Do you all hike, or just you, Jack?”
“We came to invite you to a party at Sabrina and Grey’s place,” Jack says. “Unless you’re…busy?”
“Don’t you ever get tired of people?” I ask him.
“Yes,” Decker answers first.
“Not really,” Lucky says.
Jack shrugs. “Sometimes, but not today.”
“You want to come?” Lucky says to Margot—Margie. “Only nice people. No parents. And Sabrina knows.”
“Grey—is he one of my bosses?” Margie asks. “Would that be weird?”
“He’ll be chasing Henry and trying to keep him from eating dog fur,” Jack says.
“Henry’s their kid. He’s almost two,” Lucky supplies.
“Also, we’ll give you a hundred bucks to say you’re the one who brought the cheese puffs to share,” Jack adds.
“Okay, that part’s funny,” Decker mutters.
Margie looks at me.
I shrug. “No idea. I’m missing something too.”
“When Sabrina and Grey were dating—” Lucky starts.
“Pretending they weren’t dating,” Jack interrupts.
“Yeah,” Lucky says. “When Sabrina and Grey were pretending they weren’t dating, they had this…incident…with powdered cheese.”
Even Decker’s grinning now. “So we bring cheese puffs or cheese popcorn every time we see them.”
“They were orange for days,” Lucky says.
“They weren’t, but that’s the story we tell everyone,” Jack corrects.
Margie smiles at all of them. “And you had nothing to do with it?”
“No, that was all—” Lucky stops himself and clears his throat. “That was someone who’s no longer with us.”
“Oh. I’m sorry.”
“We’re not.” Jack grimaces. “He was a fuckmuffin. And he’s not dead. Just basically banned from town.”
“I see.” Margie clearly doesn’t see.
I don’t see fully either, but I’m going to assume it has something to do with the cousin they don’t talk about anymore.
