Page 129 of A Forgotten Mistake

“Yeah, like you were hiding the fact that you’re a… a… wrecker of relationships. Ryan, you should beat him up.”

I shake my head. “It was a kiss. And don’t act like he wasn’t staring at me from the moment I entered his car.” I decide to fix this by grabbing Ryan’s face and kissing him as Christa lets out an inhuman noise.

“You’re not as funny as you think you are!” she yells at me.

“I’m a fucking delight, Christa,” I say. “You want a kiss too?”

“Fuck no,” she protests as she tries to smack me away from her.

“Just offering,” I say. “I’ve been told I’m very handsome… it was from my mom, though, so it’s questionable if it’s true or not.”

“Who invited you?” she asks.

“You sure you don’t want that kiss?”

“No! Now off with you! You think you’re so funny. You’re not.”

“Look at it this way, Anthony clearly wasn’t devoted to you—his eyes were on me the second I got into that car. This guy seems ten times better and all I’ve seen him do is grimace when I kissed him.”

She scrutinizes him. “That’s true.”

“See? I was simply helping you out.”

I push through the crowd, but I don’t see Abby. With no one to kiss or punch, I really have nothing else to do, so I startyanking door after door open to see if Abby’s hiding somewhere within. It takes me far too long to find what I’m looking for. I’m close to giving up when I finally find her upstairs sucking face with Anthony’s brother.

I wrap an arm around his neck and haul him back. “Mind if I join in?”

“What the fuck, Liam?” Abby cries.

“Your tits are out.”

“Yeah, I wanted them out.”

“Cool, cool. Lisa is in a fuss looking for you. Are you high? You’re really high, aren’t you? Anyway, let’s go.”

“I don’t want to go,” she says. “Lisa’s going to bitch about me no matter what I do.”

“Yeah? Well, she’ll bitch less if you’re home and pretending you took the bus home.”

“You know… I wouldn’t mind if you joined in,” Abby suggests.

“It was a joke,” I say as I grab her leg and start dragging her off the bed. “Let’s go.”

“Fuck!” she yells as her skirt flips up during the process. Probably should have figured that out before I took off.

“I can drive you home,” Anthony’s brother says. “So you don’t get in trouble.”

“Aw, you found a knight in shining armor. How lovely.”

“You going to suck face with him too?” Christa barks as she stuffs her head through the open door, boyfriend right behind her.

“I might. Want to watch?” I ask.

She flips me off with both hands and then elbows her new boyfriend so he flips me off too. I feel quite special as I leave the house dragging Abby after me.

“Jaaaaack, tell him to fuck off,” Abby whines.

“Didn’t you say that if your bitch foster mom catches you doing one more thing she’s like returning you or whatever the fuck it is?” he asks.

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