grinning.
“Hey girl!”
“Hey, I’ve missed your face” I grin and she chuckles.
“Missed you too. I’ve not gotten up to nearly as much questionable shit since you’ve been gone.”
“I’m sure that’s not true” I say grinning at Darcy who returns it.
“It’s not, she’s been just as bad without her partner in crime” Darcy chuckles, smiling at Rylie like she's her world, it’s adorable.
They thread their fingers together and we make our way inside.
“So what are we actually here for?” I ask as we wander aimlessly.
“I don’t actually have a plan in mind this was just the first place I thought of when you said that you wanted to go somewhere crowded because of that freaky stalker. What’s going on with that?” she asks.
“Not much, he’s just managed to somehow pull some strings and get himself moved to a low security place and a reduced sentence. When they caught him for what he did to me they found loads of other fucked up stuff on him apparently but it made no difference to whoever pulled the strings” I explain giving her enough information to satiate her curiosity but still keeping fairly vague. Jenny let us know over breakfast this morning that little detail and I’ve been trying not to think about it ever since.
“That’s seriously fucked up. He should be going away for a long time just for what he did to you. Forget everything else!” Darcy frowns.
“I completely agree, Darce. Don’t even get me started” I say, “do you want to go and get a coffee to drink as we wander?”
“Sure I’m for that” Rylie agrees and Darcy nods.
We make our way over to the coffee place and get our orders filled quickly. Once we’re away from the crowds a bit, Rylie starts the question up again.
“So what do the guys think about it all?”
“They’re mad as hell” I chuckle. Downplaying their reaction.
“I can imagine. Did you have that conversation with them?” she asks and I grin.
“Yeah” I say taking a sip of my coffee.
“And!?” she says excitedly, “come on fill me in!”
Darcy chuckles and looks at me expectantly clearly wanting to know the answer too. I chuckle.
“And you were right. We’re together.”
“All of you?” Darcy asks and I prepare myself for some sort of judgement as I nod, “dude you’re living a straight girls dream” she says with a straight face before a grin breaks out making me and Rylie howl with laughter.
“You’re awesome” I compliment once I’ve got my laughter under control.
“I know!” she grins.
They make me tell them the story of how it all happened and obviously I have to bend the truth a little bit because Atlas plays a big part in it. My fingers twitch as they start to move towards my necklace with Atlas’s ring on that rests between my boobs. Atlas’s warning floats through my mind though and I know it’s one of those things that has a deeper meaning than what he told me so I resist the urge to make sure it’s still there.
Besides even if there wasn’t his warning about the ring itself, I still wouldn’t be able to show them because they’d have questions and I can’t answer them. I’m not putting Atlas in danger and I’m starting to think that it would put Darcy and Rylie in danger if they knew anything about Atlas and what was going on. It’s safer to keep them in the dark for everybody’s sake.
We end up walking around the store for a couple of hours whilst we mindlessly shop, picking up a few things to get and just catching up on what’s been happening since we last saw each other.
“Your scrapes on your face are practically gone now” Rylie comments.
“I’d forgotten about them to fair. They don’t hurt at all” I say.
I honestly haven’t thought about them, my mind has been so consumed with everything else that the last time I did was when that guy called me scar face and I got to play for a bit.
“I’m glad” Rylie smiles.
It turns out that I was right. Rylie and Darcy have pretty much spent every waking second together and nights too. Both of their parents are super cool with them being together so there hasn’t been any issues there. They really have been in a honeymoon period and I honestly can’t begrudge Rylie for her sparse replies to my messages after seeing just how happy she is with Darcy.
“School in a few days” Darcy frowns.
“I am so not ready to go back” I say.
“Me