Page 158 of All Too Well
“Deal.”
I take the stupid Frisbee from him, stand like he tells me, and what happens? The damn thing goes two feet and hits the ground.
“Ainsley,” he moans, running his hand over his face.
“I did what you asked, babe. It’s broken.”
“Seriously, Ainsley!” Caspian yells from the other side of the field.
I flip him off. “See, I’m good at flipping, just not flicking your stupid Frisbee.”
He laughs and then sends it across the field to Caspian. “Cas, check that out and make sure it’s notdefective.”
I roll my eyes. “Clearly it’s not. Now, I love you. I’m going back to my friends.”
“Wait.” He grabs my arm before I can get far. “Just give me one minute. Please?”
When he looks at me like that, it’s hard to deny him anything. Which is why I think he uses it so much.
I stop and look at him with what I’m sure is a very petulant, very not-excited kind of look. “Why are you so adamant about this?”
“I thought maybe we could bring the girls on the team.”
I laugh at that. “I’m not enrolling in college again.”
“We’re looking for a new league.”
“Oh, I guess playing against the college kids is too easy?”
Lachlan shrugs. “Pretty much.”
“So older people are going to be a challenge?”
“More like, I’m so busy with work and my pain-in-the-ass girlfriend that traveling to Frisbee tournaments in other states isn’t working so well.”
At that I feel a little bit of triumph. At least I’m able to do some good in regard to this league.
“I’m very sorry I put a kink in your plans of total Frisbee domination.”
“You’re forgiven—after you do this.”
Seriously, he calls me a pain in his ass. “You promised I could go back.”
“And you will.”
“Lach!” Caspian calls, and the stupid thing comes back, but lands like halfway to where it should.
“See, maybe it’s a MacKinley thing.”
He smiles at me. “Stay put.”
Lachlan jogs over to the disc and grabs it. “You know what, you might be right.”
I like the sound of that. “I usually am, but what about this time?”
“There’s something wrong with this Frisbee.”
I look at it, not that I would have a single clue what the hell would be wrong with it since I don’t know jack shit about sports.
