lips, “I thought we could go over to Gold’s. I’m dying for one of their burgers.”
My body tensed and he seemed to notice. “What’s wrong, we don’t have to go there if you want to.”
I knew if I said no, I knew I would have to explain why. “No, it’s fine. I can see if Amber wants to go with us.”
“Sure sounds great. Come on, we can take my car and you can text her on the way there.”
I sent Amber a text asking her to meet us there but she declined, saying she had plans with Adam. I raised my eyebrows at that, but didn’t ask any more questions. I silently cursed as we pulled into the bar’s parking lot and I noticed Drake’s car parked near the door. This should be interesting to say the least. I hoped he wouldn’t bring up last night with Logan around, but with Drake there were no guarantees.
We walked across the parking lot slowly since Logan was walking backwards while he told me a funny story about one of the guys from his work. I glanced up behind him as we reached the door and saw Drake coming out. His eyes sought out mine instantly and I stopped walking. The barely controlled look of rage on his face told me everything I needed to know about how he felt seeing me with Logan.
I couldn’t keep doing this to either of them, and I had to tell Logan what had happened, even though I knew it would break him, and destroy any friendship we had ever had. I had no idea where that would leave me with either of them, but decided to push that particularly painful thought back until the time came as I focused on the fact I had both them here within mere feet of each other.
“So he got out from underneath the car and… whoa!” Logan spun around as he bumped into Drake, “What the….? Oh, sorry Drake, didn’t see you man.” He smiled and slapped Drake on the back. “You leaving?”
Drake’s eyes were still on me as he shook his head, “No, came out for a smoke break. Gotta love the smoking ban in bars.”
Logan nodded, “You at our usual table?”
“Yeah, Jade’s in there too.”
Logan smiled as we made our way around him, “Cool, we’ll see you inside then.” He threw this arm over my shoulder as we walked inside and went to the table. Jade gave me a questioning look as she noticed Logan’s arm around me, but didn’t say anything as we sat down.
“Hey Jade, mind if we join you?”
She gave Logan a genuine smile, “Not at all, we were just working on some new material. I could use a break.”
The waitress came over and took our orders as Drake sat down at the table in the chair next to me. I wanted to beat my head off the table. How was I supposed to sit through lunch with one of them on each side of me? Thankfully, he made no move to talk to me. Instead, he turned to Jade and started showing her something on the piece of paper between them. Logan pulled me closer to him and gave me a kiss on my forehead. “I feel like I haven’t seen you in years. Break really sucked without you.”
“I missed you too, but I’m sure the guys at the shop gave you plenty of entertainment from the story you were telling me earlier.”
He laughed, “Yeah, they’re great. But I’d much rather look at you sweaty and covered in grease than I would them.”
I felt my face start to burn. Drake was sitting close enough to hear what Logan had just said. The waitress appeared with our food and saved me from replying. I dug into my food as I glanced over at the paper Drake was holding. “What’s that?”
He continued to study the paper for a minute before replying, “Working on some new stuff to use for when we tour this summer.”
“Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Everything lined up?”
“Yeah, we’ll be on the road until right before school starts back.”
For some reason I felt depressed about him being gone for almost three months. I would probably be going back to Charleston over the summer anyway, so I had no reason to be disappointed. Maybe it was the fact that I was afraid someone in the industry would notice their band and sign them and I would never see him again. The thought of