Page 44 of Torn Mate
Ada
I realizedmy mistake too late when Lyell made a sound in Lexi’s room. Well… Lyell’s room. I didn’t want to show my face to him either. He was just as surprised as me when I started to sob into his pillows. Poor guy couldn’t understand what was going on, he probably hides in here. I never saw him at the other parties before, I guess he liked to be in his room, and now I was in his space crying. I could hear Lexi looking for me, and he told her where to find me.
I felt Lexi lay down and she hugged me, ugh. My makeup was all running onto the white sheets, but I just didn’t care. What was the point, Saint hurt me to the extreme tonight. Noah was flirting with a girl more his age.
“It’s okay, don’t worry about him. You have Huxley. He’s taking you to prom, and I’ve seen the way he looks at you and the way you look at him.”
Lexi tried to cheer me up and well, it was working. Because even without the guys, I did have her. Boys come and go, but friendship was forever. I sniffled, stupid running nose.
Lexi leaned over and grabbed a box of tissues sitting on the nightstand. “Eeeeww,” she said as she dropped the box next to me like it was gross? Or was my runny nose gross? Her eyes widened a little.
“I think this is Lyell’s happy tissue box. Shifters don’t get sick.”
What the… I looked over at the floor beside Lyell’s bed and saw a heap of used tissues on the floor.Oh god, I looked at Lexi, her expression had me laughing, yep that was really “Eeeeww.”
The door opened to the room opened loudly and I jumped, worried it was Saint coming to rub it in that he was taking Olivia to prom. But it was Jett with his goofy smile.
“Hey, beautiful ladies, I heard the news that you found Lyell’s tissue collection. All those wasted tissues… trees have been cut down so he can wipe his jizz on them. I’ve told him to jerk off in the shower like everyone else does. I save the planet twice a day, and I feel like a hero every time I come.”
I… I didn’t have words for that. Did he just tell me he jerks off in the shower twice a day and feels like a hero?
Lexi wasn’t speechless. “Jett, that was a total overshare. We didn’t want to know that.”
He chuckled at that. “All guys jerk off, even your mates. You just don’t know. Ask them, I dare you.” Lexi slapped him as he lay down next to me. He kept smiling at me, he was funny… I knew he must have heard what had happened and was coming to cheer me up. He seemed to be good at that.
“I know they do, I just didn’t want to know that about you.” Lexi wouldn’t want to know that about Jett. But I didn’t mind, it was interesting, Guys didn’t ever say this around me, so it was like learning something new. I wondered how many times Huxley jerked off… I bet he looked hot doing it.
Jett winked at me and I felt my cheeks heat. Crap… I forgot they could smell emotions. Lexi reminded me today while we were getting ready.
“Ada, you wanna dance with me?” He asked. I nodded, yeah… I wanted to dance. I wanted to show Olivia she couldn’t run me off anymore… Saint he couldn’t break me. Even though I wanted to hurt him for what he did tonight, I would never stoop to his level, and Noah could be with someone his own age.
I would never change for others, if they didn’t like who I was, that was their loss. I was Ada Stephens, I liked the color pink, was a true crime junkie and loyal friend.
I wasn’tsure if I was up for shopping, but I was glad I still went. Prom dress shopping was the best… well the best when your bestie holds up her rich boyfriend’s credit card and says “Galen said there was no limit for us both.” When prom was a week away, that was a good thing, because the dresses were way too expensive for me. My mom had wanted to come, but I asked if it could just be Lexi and me. Well… and Ranger.
Mom gave me one-hundred and fifty dollars to spend on a dress. I knew money could be tight for them, so that was more than I was expecting. I was just going to see if I could buy some fabric and quickly make one after trying some on with Lexi. To see which style I wanted. But now I didn’t have to worry. Galen was letting us spend his money.
Noah had sent me messages apologizing, but I had turned my phone off. We didn’t talk about what happened last night, I was glad.
I picked out a red silk dress, it had a plunging V neck line, it was hot… like I couldn’t believe this was going to be my dress for prom, hot. Lexi told me not to look at the price tag, I didn’t want to. I would’ve probably put it back on the rack.
After all the shopping, Ranger took us to a burger place near my house.
We sat outside and I laughed as Ranger talked about his fireworks that he had bought for the party last night. I shook my head and laughed. Lexi didn’t look happy with Ranger wanting to find the fireworks that Alaric “stole” from him. He would probably blow his fingers off… would they grow back? I knew they healed super-fast… but pretty sure you couldn’t re-grow body parts.
“I’m gonna find them, trust me, and it will be awesome. You have to come Ada, when I find them I gotta move fast before father knows. So, you gotta be ready for my call.” I shook my head and laughed, I didn’t want to encourage him, but I liked that he thought to invite me.
“Oh, what?” Ranger muttered. He turned and started waving. It was Clare Briggs. She looked amazing, she had long black hair down and wore a beautiful yellow sundress. She had a guy with her. His hair was shaved short and he had this sexy half smirk as he walked with Clare, holding her hand. He looked like he had won a prize at the fair with the way he carried himself. But with Clare, he had. She was amazing.
“Oh my god, Clare,” I called out as she got closer. I waving to her so she could see me. She did as she started towards me, a huge grin on her face.
“Hey, Ada, how have you been?” I watched her almost have to drag her boyfriend over to us. Maybe he was shy?
Ranger surprised me when he suddenly jumped up, he wrapped his arms around Clare and she looked at me with wide eyes. Her boyfriend had taken a step back, he looked like he didn’t know what to do. Murder him or say hi. He did neither.
“Oh, hi.” She patted Ranger’s back, and he pulled away with this big smile.
“Ah…you’re Jett’s brother, right?” Her brows raised at Ranger like she didn’t know who he was. I dropped the fry I was about to eat. What?
