Page 53 of Stop and Seek
Because she freaks me out.
Not worth it.
“Whatever,” Theo mumbled. “Is she nice to you, at least?”
Alyssa grinned, shooting him a look that made him want to take back his question, post haste.
“She’s more than nice. After the bar, she wrapped my legs around her waist—”
“Too much information.Too much.”
Now that image was seared inside his brain. As much as he liked Alyssa, he had didn’t want to hear what she let other people do to her.
The bleachers squeaked louder, old bolts protesting when the popular entourage piled around them. Decker’s body spray and Mr. Pretentious’ cologne were overpowering as hell.
“My throat is dying, Lyssa-poo,” Decker mumbled, leaning his head on Alyssa’s. “Can we switch jobs?”
Lyssa-poo?
Alyssa snickered. She dragged a strand of Decker’s long, dyed hair over her shoulder and tugged on it. “If you promise to pay me. Your girl doesn’t do free.”
“He couldn’t run if aliens were chasing him,” Mr. Pretentious said. “He’d last two seconds before collapsing into nothing.”
Theo shoved the entire piece of pizza in his mouth, chewing through crust and pepperoni. “I agree with Ben-Ben.”
Decker fuckingcackled. He clapped his hands. Hopped down from the top seat to squeezeright betweenAlyssa and Theo.
“I’ll keep you,” Decker said. “You’re a riot, broski.”
Mr. Pretentious glared at Theo over the top of the thin glasses. “It’s Benji. Not Ben-Ben.”
Well, screw me then, I didn’t know.
“Let him talk, Ben-Ben,” Decker said, still half-laughing. “Don’t be so sensitive.”
This was too much attention.
Theo’s face was onfire.
“Can you give me your car keys, Alyssa?” he asked, as quietly as he could.
Alyssa tossed them over, and he clomped down the bleachers, Decker’s voice fading the further away he got.
He spotted Max and Noah against the wall and he could’ve sworn Noah was looking right at him.
Noah stood up a little straighter and—
Shit, Noahwaslooking at him.
Then Max stepped in front of Noah. Blocking the view.
Thank god.
Alyssa’s car should’ve been considered a weapon of mass destruction. Seriously. Theo just needed two things.
Two things.
A hairpin and her earbuds.
