Barbie Btch (Rejects Paradise #3) - Sheridan Anne Page 0,61
She’s a lot like Mom.”
“No shit,” I laugh. “The apple didn’t fall far from that tree.”
“Yeah … about that,” she says with a cringe. “I’m kinda over the fighting. I'm not exactly a grudge holder like that, so if you’re down with being cool, then I am too.”
I raise a brow. “Yeah?” I question. “I don’t think your sister feels the same.”
“No, she doesn’t and she’d kill me and instantly accuse me of jumping ship, but I can see how much you mean to Colton and if I’m going to have any chance of having him in my life, then I need to get on board the Ocean train. Though, turns out it's not actually that bad. I didn’t realize we would have so much in common.”
“To be honest, I really thought that there wouldn’t be anything under the sun that we would have in common but it’s nice to know that we do.”
“Exactly,” she says with a beaming smile before glancing down at her book and pulling her feet up under herself. “Now shut up, I’ve been dying to read this series.”
“Right back at ya,” I grin, resting back into my egg chair with an odd smile. I can’t exactly say that becoming friends with Casey Carrington was on my agenda today, but a part of me is actually kind of happy about it, unless it’s a trap, of course, but something tells me it was real, and for some reason, I’m inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt.
With that in mind, I open the book to page one and lose myself in one of the best stories ever told.
Chapter 15
I walk into the main house early on Tuesday morning, feeling a million times better. Maybe Mom was onto something about reading a book. I didn’t exactly get through much of it after spending a good portion of my afternoon hanging out and talking books with Casey, but the little time to myself where I could get lost in another world helped to put things into perspective.
Nic fucked up and that’s on him. It’s in the past and while he has a long road ahead of him to earn my forgiveness, there's no point spending my time worrying and hurting over it.
It’s time to worry about the more important things, like getting good grades, and being the first person on either side of my family to go to college. I can do it. I know I can.
I walk into the kitchen to find Charlie and Colton hovering over the coffee machine, very impatiently waiting for their caffeine hit by pressing every button on the machine and getting aggravated at the poor thing.
“Hey, you,” I say to Charlie as I stride past him, leaning between the boys and grabbing the power cord for the coffee machine and plugging it into the wall with an amused smirk. “Where the hell have you been? I feel like I haven’t seen you in ages.”
Both of the boys studiously ignore the fact that neither of them was smart enough to check that the machine was plugged in and get busy actually turning it on. Charlie leans against the counter and gives me a beaming smile. “I figure since Colton here is too fucking lazy to step out of his big ass mansion these days, you could use a lift to school.”
“Well, well,” I say, watching Colton roll his eyes at his friend’s comments. “Wouldn’t that be a treat.”
Colton gives me a blank stare. “You realize that there’s at least thirty … no, twenty cars in the garage that I’d allow you to drive. You don’t need to keep getting lifts every day.”
I narrow my eyes at my irritatingly sexy boyfriend. “Why can’t I drive all of them? You know, I don’t think I’ve really gotten the feel for the Veneno. I could take that one to school.”
Colton shakes his head as Charlie howls with laughter. “Over my dead fucking body. After you stole it and took it for a girls’ day at the hair salon, I won’t even let you breathe near it.”
“That’s okay,” I laugh. “You’ve got to sleep at some point and when you do, when you least expect it, I’m going to take them all. I might invite the Widows over and we can figure out which one of your babies goes the fastest.”
He shakes his head as Charlie grabs a bagel off the counter and begins slathering it with cream cheese. “Careful, Jade. Keep making threats like that