Page 172 of Zero Chance

I couldn’t remember being this happy since…

Ever.

“I’ll let you taste it when I get it,” I assured Xander, knowing that’s what she’d been hedging for when she’d spoken in the first place.

Placated, she sent Keene a raspberry, only to squeeze my arm gratefully.“Thank you, Frankie.”

I nodded, shuddering and hugging myself as a chilly breeze entered while Keene rolled his window down to put our order in.Now that I was no longer drinking or cuddled in his arms in front of a fire, I was freaking freezing.

Keene rolled the window up once he was done and turned back to us, only to catch sight of me and hiss, “Jesus.Your lips are blue.Here, I think I have a hoodie in the back.”

When he reached into the back seat, Alec jumped and squawked, “Hey, hey.Stop getting fresh with me, skeeve.I’m not that kind of boy.”

As Xander threw her head back and laughed, Keene groaned and rolled his eyes.“YouwishedI was interested in you like that, fucker.”Then he grumbled, “Move your damn ass.You’re sitting on the hoodie I need for Waverly.”

“Oh.”Sounding mollified, Alec quoted the movie he and Xander had been watching earlier, “Well, that’s one I haven’t been on before,” which made Xander howl with more laughter.

Chuckling, Alec called, “Here you go,” and he flung a piece of black cloth into the front seat.

“Perfect.”Grinning at me in relish, Keene lifted the hoodie and instructed, “Arms up, darlin’.”

I blinked at him, unable to believe he wanted to put itonme too.And he must’ve given up on waiting because he merely pulled it over my head and tenderly grasped my hair to slide the locks free.

“Thanks,” I murmured, still astounded by his consideration.I pushed my hands into the arm holes, only to grip the front of the hoodie as soon as they were through so I could draw it up to my nose.

Keene sent me a funny look.“What?Does it stink?”

“No.”I gave a dreamy sigh and took another long whiff.“It smells like you.”

Blinking, Keene shook his head, but the look in his eyes told me he liked my answer.“I’m never getting that hoodie back, am I?”

Grinning goofily, I shook my head.“Nope.”

If anything, Keene only looked happier about the loss.

* * *

Once we hadour orders delivered and were all happily gorging ourselves on drinks and snacks, Keene pulled out of the restaurant and back onto the road before announcing, “Well, that took all of twelve minutes.What’re we going to do for the next fifty until one o’clock?”

“What do you think, Frankie?”Xander asked me.“What’s something else you never did that everyone in high school always seemed to do around you?This is the perfect night to do a few more firsts.”

“Well, in that case, we should get Younger laid,” Keene announced with a snort before picking up my dirty Dr.Pepper and drinking deeply from the straw.“Damn, that’s good shit,” he said while Alec slugged him on the side of the arm, nearly making him drop the drink altogether.

“Suck it, motherfucker,” Alec growled, but Keene only laughed.

“What?Like I’m lying?”

His comment had me lifting my eyebrows and glancing back at Xander in question.She returned my glance with a wide, curious stare, looking as if she might be wondering the same thing I was: Was Alec actually a virgin?

It seemed unheard of that I’d done something another member in this vehicle hadn’t yet tried.

Huh.Maybe I wasn’t quite the freak I’d always assumed I was.Maybe it was okay not to have experienced everything before I hit twenty-one.

Still chuckling to himself, Keene set the drink back into the cup holder and turned a corner at the next intersection before saying, “Hey.Have you ever TP’ed anyone’s house before?”

* * *

I haveno idea how the guys talked Xander and me into it, but we stopped at the next convenience store we passed and bought a four-pack of toilet paper.

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