Page 112 of Frisco

I grunted. It did.

The shock was wearing off, and I was starting to feel the pain.

I hissed, knowing not to move my foot, but damn. I wanted to move. Had to move, but also couldn’t move at the same time. What a situation we’d found ourselves in. I was hoping it was a strain and not a sprain.

“I’m sorry.”

“About what?” She turned my way.

I shook my head. “I don’t know, but I’m figuring this was because of me. Chances are high, considering Shane. You know.”

“Oh.” She settled even more into my side and arm. Her head rested to my shoulder. “Silver lining?”

I cracked a grin, which also hurt, but I had to play along. This was another thing we did.

I suggested, “Silver lining, I bet Justin never left.”

She barked out a laugh before choking on it, a moaning sound coming out of her throat at the same time. “Jesus. Everything hurts.”

I moved my shoulder a little, lightly jostling her. “Silver lining? Your turn.”

“Right. Um, what Brandon worried would happen did happen so it already happened. Statistics wise, chances are low of it happening again.”

I knew where she was going with that. “See. You can use that logic against him when he’ll argue about you and me being friends.” But my turn. “Silver lining… you can see what kind of guy Brandon is when they find us.”

“That’s true.” She was moving her foot around. I didn’t know why. She whimpered on a hiss of pain. “I really do like him.”

“I gathered. You said I couldn’t give you babies.”

She snorted. “I mean, you could. ’Cause of science, you could give me babies, but you know what I meant.”

“That means you really like him.”

“I do. I didn’t expect it. Never expect it anymore, honestly. Not anymore. I gave up. I thought Scott was my best shot at a family, but knowing how his family was, I had no hope. I was relieved when Harper showed me that image of him kissing that girl back home.”

“Slut.”

She laughed. “I know you’re meaning him, not her.”

“Of course.”

“Thanks, Kali.”

I’d forgotten all about the headlights, but remembering, I lifted my head and I couldn’t see any light anymore. They must’ve gone on. I didn’t even know where the road was because where those lights were didn’t make sense to me. I thought the road was to our side, but now that I was analyzing that, I didn’t see any light posts either.

“I’m pretty sure I got us lost.”

“Let’s make it through the night, and when the sun comes up, we can get our bearings.”

That was a good plan. “I can’t sleep. I might be concussed.”

“Then you can’t sleep.”

“Okay.”

A minute later, Aly was sleeping.

I struggled, but she had settled even more into me, lying by me. She was warm. I moved in, trying to get as close as I could because it was still cold out.

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