up. I’m just glad she’s still alive and breathin’ at this point,” he tells me honestly.
“Can’t say that I don’t agree with you there. You ready for the party?”
Fin’s eyes light up. His head starts nodding rapidly. We’re all excited for this.
“Fuck yeah.”
“Good. I need to talk to Taz real quick before I head out.”
“She know you’re comin’?”
“No. She’s been so goddamn busy with everything that we haven’t talked a whole lot lately. I know she got that job offer in Georgia. I’m just hopin’ this will help change her mind,” I tell him.
My heart squeezes when I think about Carnie leaving the state. It’s one thing for her to leave for school, but to leave me altogether? I don’t know that I can handle that. We’ve talked a lot over the last four years. I’ve visited her more times than I can count. We’ve talked, texted, and fucked. I made her a promise before she left and I’ve kept it. I’ve not been with anyone but my goddamn hand in the last four years. It has been hell on earth, but I did it. I didn’t just do it for her either. I did it for us.
“She loves you Viking. I hated it at first, but you know you’re good for her,” Fin tells me.
“Her graduation was nice even though she was pissed. She didn’t see us there.”
“You let her think we weren’t there? What the fuck is wrong with you Viking? No wonder she won’t answer any of my calls,” Fin snaps.
It’s funny to watch him. We did show up to her graduation. We just stayed in the back where she couldn’t pick us out of the crowd. I had a photographer up front getting pictures of all that shit though. I wanted this little surprise to work to my advantage.
“She’ll get over it when she sees the party we have goin’ on.
Stop worryin’.”
Fin just shakes his head while I chuckle.
“You’re gonna get cut off brother. I’m tellin’ you she is gonna cut you off on all sex for the next year even if you do actually pull this off.”
I watch Fin as he chuckles and walks away. It doesn’t matter what he thinks.
“Hey Taz. You ready for this?” I call out to her when I see her across the room.
She spins around with a smile plastered across her face as she walks toward me.
“I can’t believe you did this. You bought us a school Viking. I can’t even tell you how much this is going to mean to her.”
Her eyes are bright and wide. I love seeing her happy. Taz means a lot to me and I know she means even more to Carnie.
“It’s a preschool. I hope she likes it. I’m just thankful you’ll be the one runnin’ all that shit. I don’t know if I can handle all them kids runnin’ around,” I tell her with a laugh.
“She’s going to love it. You’re an amazing man Viking. Now get out of here and go get our girl.”
I pull Taz into a hug and press a kiss to the top of her head before I head out. The ride to the college doesn’t take me nearly as long as I thought it would. I find a spot and park my bike. People are just wandering around all over packing up to leave. For the most part Carnie has already packed up and had her shit put in a storage that Fin and I filled up for her.
I stalk across the grass with my heart thundering in my chest. When I see her I gasp. Her back is to me, but I’d know her anywhere. I walk closer as she tells her friend goodbye.
“Congratulations on that job in Georgia,” her friend calls out over her shoulder.
“You ever thought about runnin’ your own school?”
My voice thunders through the air. Carnie slowly turns to face me with a strange look on her face.
“You have some balls to show up now and not even bother to come to my graduation.”
Her little pissed off tone does little more than set my cock to hard. I can feel it getting harder as stand here.
“I was there.”
“Lies Viking,” she snaps.
I chuckle and pull my phone out to show her some of the pictures the photographer took. I hold it up so she can see it. She looks stunned.
“Why didn’t you talk to me?” she asks confused.
“I was settin’ up a surprise for you. You wanna know what it is?”
She huffs before passing me