Page 40 of How to Be a Rockstar's Girlfriend

Initiation – an excuse to have a girls’ night out and interrogate the newcomer for all her secrets

Mercy

I groan when there’s a knock on Mercury’s door. Today was my second day working with Basil at the garage. I enjoyed it but my muscles are sore. I forgot how physically demanding being a mechanic is.

“Answer the door,” Mercury bellows.

“Answer the door, please,” I correct.

“What?”

“Have you heard of the word please? It’s considered polite.”

He snorts. “Never said I was polite.”

“No shit.”

“Don’t swear. It’s unbecoming of a woman.”

“And it’s unbecoming of a man to not use the word please,” I insist.

He sighs. “Will you please answer the door?”

“I’d love to.” I push to my feet.

“Hi!” Indigo greets when I open the door. She’s standing on the porch with Virginia and Leia.

“What’s happening?”

She beams at me. “It’s girls’ night.”

“Sorry. I can’t leave Mercury alone.”

She leans around me to shout, “Old Man Mercury, can Mercy come out to play?”

“She’s her own woman,” he shouts back.

“There. All taken care of.”

I step out on the porch and shut the door behind me. “No, it’s not,” I whisper. “I can’t leave him alone. He doesn’t drink anything when I’m gone because he’s afraid to go to the bathroom alone.”

Leia frowns. “She can’t leave him. He’ll get dehydrated.”

“I guess I’ll go home.” Virginia starts to walk away but Indigo catches her wrist.

“No one’s going anywhere and we are having a night out,” she insists.

“What about my uncle?”

She smiles. “The solution is already on the way.”

“I’m not letting Cayenne in this house,” Mercury shouts.

“Seriously?” I shout back. “You have the television blaring all the time but you can hear us when we’re whispering on the porch?”

“What did you say?” Mercury pretends he can’t hear us.

Leia giggles. “I like your uncle.”

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