Page 2 of We Own Tonight
“No. We’re going to need penises. There’s no way I’m living with you people without having someone to bang. You three will drive me so far up the wall that I’ll need the release.Daily.”
“You’reridiculous.”
“You’re damn nearcelibate.”
Here we go again. “Shut your face.” She whips out of my driveway so fast that I almost smack my head on the window. “Nic!” I yell as she takes another turn way too fast in this damn death trap. “Jesus! Slowdown!”
“Stop being dramatic. I’m with you, and you have a badge. No one is going to ticketme.”
“I don’t care if you get pulled over.” I right myself and grab the edge of the seat. “I care aboutdying.”
“You’re going to die from lack of sex if anything.” She rolls her eyes and cues the ’90s station. “Listen to Four Blocks Down, and get ready to watch the boys shake their delectable asses on stage. After that, you can remove the stick up your ass, maybe then you won’t be somiserable.”
“I’m not miserable.” I slap herarm.
“Okay.” She shrugs and ignores me, which is her typical way of blowing meoff.
Am I miserable?No. I’m happy... for the mostpart.
I have a great job that keeps me fulfilled. Being a female police officer isn’t easy, but I loveit.
The only real downside to my job is that I come face to face with my ex-husband every day. Luckily, things didn’t endthatbadly. But I’d be full of crap if I didn’t admit how much it bothers me. Things with Matt are—weird. Sometimes people just don’t work or you realize the person you married isn’t what you thought. I wish I could transfer to another town, but my sister Stephanie and the twelve years invested in my pension keep mehere.
Nicole belts out another round of lyrics. “Sing it with me,Heather!”
I don’t want to, but I’m taken back in time when the four of us had bangs that were so high they could cause whiplash, wore colors that no one should ever wear, and drooled over Four Blocks Down without a smidgen ofshame.
Smashed in the tiny death trap posing as a vehicle, I let go alittle.
We both sing along, belting out the lyrics of our first crushes. “I wish I still had my Eli pillow case,” Igrin.
“I had a Randy towel. I would like to wrap myself up with him again.” Nicolesighs.
I swear this girl needs sex more than anyone I know. “Does your vibrator ever get abreak?”
She looks over at me with her usual you’re-an-idiot face. “You’re going to realize very soon, my love, if you don’t use it . . . you loseit.”
“And you’re going to overuse it,” I say. She’s the only one of us who never married. Nicole lives in downtown Tampa. She has to schlep it all the way out to Carrollwood to pick me up, but she knows if she didn’t, I wouldn’tgo.
Sometimes, I envy her life. She has everything she dreamed of. Opening Dupree Designs and then landing her contract with one of the wealthiest developers in the city was pure luck. She slept with him, got a few more jobs, and before she knew it—she was ontop.
Then she dumpedhim.
We park the car at the arena, and Nicole shifts in her seat. “Listen, I know you’re hell bent on being the responsible one of us, but tonight,” she grabs my hands, “I beg you to let loose. Youneedabreak.”
I glare at her. “I do letloose.”
“Your hair is in a bun,” she raises her brow. “You’re the definition oftight.”
I touch my hair, hating that she has a point. But this is me. I like to make good choices. Other than marrying Matt, which wasn’tbadper se . . . just hasty. Never mind that he was an asshole. And he sucked inbed.
Okay, so maybe it was a badchoice.
Moving on. “I’m not uptight,Nic.”
“I didn’t say uptight. But let your hair down. It’ll make Danni jealous since she can’t get her hair your color blonde no matter how much money she spends. Maybe one day she’ll get over herself and stop trying.” Nicole and Danielle have a love/hate relationship. This week it seems to be more on the hate side. I wish they’d get over this already and talk it out, but they both claim there’s noissues.
From what I can gather, Nicole slept with Danielle’s ex three days before she got married. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I wouldn’t be surprised since it is Nic we’re talking about. When I heard the back story, I distanced myself from the entire thing. No way was I getting in the middle of it, but Nicole typically has something snippy to say about her and viceversa.
