Page 6 of Good Time Boyfriend
She was the eldest of us all and had that big-sister energy. She always took care of us. Even if I didn’t want to be taken care of.
I just wanted to hide and forget my lie. But for some reason he seemed to be going along with it.
What the hell?
“So, you’re saying you guys are just on a break. Like that TV show? Because it didn’t really work out in the end for them.” Elizabeth narrowed her gaze.
“They were on a break though,” Paige put in.
“But he still cheated. Because you don’t go out and sleep with the first person you see right after you take a break,” Andy interrupted.
“Is that what you did?” Lee asked, and I huffed out a breath.
“We can go through the merits of a show that’s been over for twenty years anytime you want, except for right now. This really isn’t any of your business and you’re embarrassing me. Just go home, okay?”
“We are making a scene,” Elizabeth said as she looked around.
“Please go,” I said, mortification setting in as I realized people were indeed looking at us.
“So, you really want us to just leave you with your ex?”
“I’m not going to hurt her,” Heath put in.
Andy snorted. “You already did.”
There had to be a hole I could jump in and bury myself. I mean, any moment now a cavern would open up and just take me to my isolation. That would be wonderful.
Sadly though, it didn’t happen. Heath gave me a look that said that I owed him. I didn’t know why he was playing along. Maybe this was part of the bartender’s repertoire. But I was going to go with it. Or find a hole to bury myself in.
“Seriously. I’m an adult. You need to go, this is his place of business. Please stop. Go home to all of your spouses and kids. You do not need to be here. Please.”
“This isn’t over,” Lee said as he pointed at Heath, before Elizabeth sighed and pulled them back. Elizabeth was always the calmer one.
It still felt like I was the baby sister that had been brought in at a weird time. It hadn’t helped that the next five had been born so quickly after my mother had married their father.
And they were just as feral about protecting the babies as they were about protecting me. Then again, I was the same way. If anyone hurt any of my ten siblings, I would fight to the death.
But for some reason, both sets seemed to want to protect me.
Maybe it was because I was the only one with my name in the family. The only one not a full-blood relation to others.
So they wanted to protect me.
And I had lied because of it.
They finally left and people started going back about their business. I was grateful I wasn’t the center of attention anymore. Except that I was the sole focus of somebody’s attention.
I cleared my throat and turned to look at Heath.
I was ready to be kicked out of the bar, with a lifetime ban.
How many times had something like this happened to him? Probably more than I cared to count. Or maybe this was brand new, and this wasn’t something that he did on a regular basis. You know, placate the crazy person and their crazier family.
I had never even had a boyfriend before, other than the fake one. It wasn’t that I didn’t want one, it just hadn’t come up. I’d been a little busy. And a little shy. And here I was, standing alone in a bar, knowing that if I wasn’t careful, my family could show up again and drag me out.
This wasn’t embarrassing at all.
“So, Devney, is it?”
