Page 261 of Knox Academy Omnibus
"Awesome! I have to go talk to Jason but I’ll wait for you."
I nod and she heads down the stairs.
Kalen pulls me into the spare room. "Want a quickie before we go out?" He waggles his brows at me in a completely over the top and not at all sexy gesture. I laugh.
"No way, the guys are just starting to like you."
"Good point, drunk sex later sounds better anyway."
I shake my head; he is incorrigible. Backing away, I poke my tongue out at him and slip through the door. He’ll be down soon enough.
Walking down into the lounge, I could cut the tension with a knife. Smalls and Katie are sitting on the sofa next to each other. Smalls looks like a giant next to her. They’re both staring at Aadi and Bex.
“Amelie,” Bex says. “Tell your arrogant brother that it is totally acceptable to invite myself out with you girls. Everyone my age has balls and as much as I love balls, this testosterone is bullshit.” Bex crosses her arms in front of her chest. Aadi is practically snarling at her across the room.
“Aad, it’s fine. You don't mind her tagging along, do you Katie?”
I turn to Katie but she isn’t paying attention. Smalls bumps his leg into hers.
“Huh? Oh, yeah, it’s fine,” she replies.
“Sweet! Let's get white girl wasted!” Bex sings, and Aadi groans.
‘Young dumb and broke’ by Khalid pumps through the speakers as we all walk into the pub. Bex high fives a table of guys.
“Happy birthday,” she says, winking at the guy on the end.
“Do you know him?” I ask.
“No. Should I?” She frowns back at me.
“You just told him happy birthday,” Katie adds, sounding as puzzled as I feel.
“Well, I probably won’t see him before his birthday so it’s only polite to say it in advance.” She shrugs like what she just said is a perfectly reasonable explanation and skips off towards the bar, high fiving the bartender when she gets there. The young guy leans over the bar and kisses her on the cheek. I hope she knowsthatguy.
“She’s...interesting,” Katie says. I nod. That’s one way of putting it, but I do like her.
We spot Crystal sitting near the pool tables and she waves us over.
“She sure is. I’ll go order us some drinks. Any requests?” I ask.
“Nothing fruity,” she replies before heading to join Crystal.
I make my way towards Bex, who is animatedly talking to the bartender still, laughing at whatever he just said.
“Ordered any drinks yet?” I ask. She looks back at me and smiles.
“Not yet, I was waiting for you. I wasn’t sure what you wanted.”
“Nothing fruity.”
“Me either girl, my legs tend to fall open if I drink that girly shit.” The bar tender grins lasciviously and nods. I know he’s filed that information away for later. I see fruity girly drinks in Bex’s future if the bartender has anything to say about it.
“Can I get eight tequila shots and a jug of Jack? Four cups, please.”
We wait while the drinks are being made. I look back over at Katie and think how she really would make a good girlfriend for Smalls. They’d look super cute together and she’s so much nicer than skank face Sarah.
“You hot for her?” Bex asks, bumping my shoulder.
