Page 3 of Sincerely, Your Enemy

If something happened to her, I don’t know what I’m going to do.

There’s no answer at first.

“Hello? I said is she okay? Why did you answer her phone? Is she?—”

“Yeah, okay, lady. I’m not in the mood to play twenty questions with a lunatic, so if you’ll excuse me?—”

Shit, I can’t let him hang up.

“Wait! Please don’t hang up.Please. Just give me a second.”

I double-check the number I’ve dialed to be sure.

“I swear this is my sister’s number. I don’t know why you picked up her phone.”

“This isn’t your sister’s phone. It’s…” He stops abruptly, dead silent for the next few seconds. “Oh.”

My shoulders release all tension.

“You’re right. Fuck, I must be drunker than I thought,” Mystery Man says to himself.

“Where did you find her phone?”

“It was just sitting there on the couch. My buddy’s been butt-dialing me all night. I thought you were him,” he explains.

Sierra wouldn’t just abandon her phone at a random high school party. She spent all of last summer working as a lifeguard so she could afford the model she wanted. The thing practically cost her an organ.

“TJ, you’re up!” I hear in the background.

My jaw drops.

Did he just sayTJ?

I know a TJ. An arrogant, painfully attractive basketball player with an inflated ego and eyes so dark they pull you in and never let you go.

“The fuck is he talking to?” another guy chimes. “Jacobs! Get your ass over here. We have a score to settle.”

You’ve got to be kidding me.

It’s him.

It’s the same TJ.

Mathias Jacobs, also known as the campus playboy—although hehateshis full name and asks that everyone calls him TJ, short for Thias Jacobs.

He just had to be the one to pick up Sierra’s phone, didn’t he?

He and I run in the same circle, and despite my friends’ many attempts to set us up, I’ve never understood the appeal. Guys like him know they’re gorgeous, and it makes them insufferable in my eyes.

Back up.

If TJ found Sierra’s phone at a party, then that means…

My sister’s at a college party.

Oh, she issodead.

“I’m busy. Ask Theo,” TJ fires back, and the name he used tells me one of the guys at that party is Theodore Cox, our mutual friend.

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