Summer Breeze Kisses - Addison Moore Page 0,187

out with some chick.”

“I bet it was her! It was Janelle!” Trix shouts so loud as if it were the winning answer to some cheesy game show question. “She was crapping on you, and you didn’t even know it.”

“That might be so. Anyway, last night when I saw Harper, I felt bad. Hell, I felt obligated to tell her something, anything. All I wanted to do was warn her.”

Trix slides over next to me and wraps an arm around my shoulder. “The way you wish someone would warn you if the shoe were on the other foot?”

“That’s exactly right.” My stomach turns as Lawson’s words come back to haunt me. He said he tried to warn me. My mind races with all the interactions we’ve had over the last few months, and I push them out of my head for now. “And that’s when Lawson tracked me down. He dragged me to a dark hall in the back, the lights went on, and I heard Harper make a horrible sound, something between a scream and a gasp.” The room around me evaporates a moment, and I’m right there with the lights blinking on, Justin’s meat hook wrapped around Jen’s tit, their mouths still conjoined as they looked over to us. “I just saw her face—some dude’s hands all over her and I lost it.” My voice breaks and Trix scoots in closer. “The next thing I remember is pulling him off her by the shirt and bashing his head in with my fist. Damn, it felt good.” I reach over and clasp her shoulder in a weak attempt to hold this other side of me. Trix and I have always viewed ourselves as extensions of one another, but right now I’m glad it’s not technically true. I’d never want her to feel this agonizing pain I’ve launched myself into. “She never apologized. She never said a word. I took off for a second before turning around, and I saw the unthinkable—Jen helping that jackass hobble out of there.”

“What did you expect? You just caught her cheating on you. Her true colors were revealed. Once a snake sheds its skin, there’s no going back.”

I glance over at my sister. “I’m not sure I get the reference, but my head’s sort of scrambled at the moment.”

“No worries.” She pulls me into a hard embrace. “Hey, what are you going to do about the internship?”

“Crap.” I bang my head against the wall a few good times. “I forgot all about that. I can’t do it.” Just the thought of showing up at So Shoe Me makes my stomach turn. As a business major, I was looking forward to a solid internship each summer while at Whitney Briggs, and the first was to be with Janelle’s father at his footwear superstore.

“Crap. I’m not doing it.”

“But you need it to get into the program! Damn her to hell for ruining this for you too!”

I sink my head into my hand, and swear to God, I see my entire future dissolve to nothing.

“Okay, I’ve got it. You can take my place at Orville Realty.”

“What? No way.” I pull back to examine her, and I’m stunned to find tears in her eyes. For as much rage as she’s fronting, she’s hurting for me, and that alone tears me apart even more than Janelle did.

“Yes way.” She pounds her fist over my chest just enough to let me feel it. “I’m undeclared. I don’t even need an internship. It was Dad’s idea. He won’t care. Dad says Forest, the guy who owns the place, is some longtime family friend. I’m sure he’ll be thrilled to have either one of us. The downside is you start tomorrow.”

Tomorrow. Crap.

“Fine. But only because you don’t really need it.” I give her foot a light kick. “Thanks, man. I appreciate it. I’ll just forget about the shoe store. I wasn’t looking forward to a summer of stinky feet anyway.”

“And I want you to forget about her too. Don’t you even think of talking to that stinky skank ever again. You understand?”

“I’ve got half her stuff here.”

“I’ll take care of that. I’ve been thinking it’s about time for a bonfire. That’s the way we usually start off summer, isn’t it?”

“Don’t burn it.” An acid bomb goes off in the pit of my stomach. “As horrible as it was to have her crap all over me last night—”

“Stop!” She gives a half-hearted sock to my arm. “She’s an evil, evil person. Don’t you dare

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