Page 264 of Lilah
~~~
"I don't think I've seen you in about ten years," Mr. Terrip says unhappily.
"I know," I hug his skinny frame, "Grey's held me hostage."
"I have chronic back pain now," I grasp my back.
"Oh really? From what? What happened?" He wonders and my eyes widen. Why did I tell him that?
What am I supposed to say? 'Oh yeah Greykilledmy back this morning while we were having sexy time. Oh also, that's why I'm here late.' I think not.
"I fell off the bed last night. I just rolled off," I tuck my hair behind my ear.
"Did you hit your neck, too?" Mr. Terrip's eyebrows furrow in concern as he looks at my neck. My eyes widen.
"Yep," my voice raises an octave.
I need to have a three-hour-long church session in my car. And Grey needs to be there too but nowhere near me. He can sit in the trunk, all the way in the back.
"I'm gonna get to work," I give him a smile and rush to the bathroom. I enter and straight away see the hickeys on my neck. I swear he rarely ever gives me them but when he does he might as well been sucking my whole neck off.
I go back out and grab a handful of books from the bookcart to put away.
Hardly ten minutes later the bell above the door rings and I'm almost tackled to the floor by Abby.
"I can't believe I'm about to say this," she jumps excitedly and I feed off her energy.
She grabs my hands and twirls me in her arms. I laugh at her energy.
"Roman asked me to be his girlfriend.Girlfriend.Not a friend that's a girl but an actual girlfriend!" She hugs me to her tightly.
"Aw, I'm so excited for you," I swing us back and forth.
She deserves someone who's amazing and although I don't know Roman all that well, I know that he's a great guy.
And if he doesn't treat her right, he'll have to answer to me and I am so talented in the combat and spying area, he's got no chance against me.
"I saw your car in the parking lot and I just had to run in here and tell you," he calms down a bit.
"I can't wait to tell Grey," I smile. I would've said that he's going to be excited but he doesn't get excited. He probably won't care but I'llmakehim care because I care.
"Okay, I have class in twenty minutes so I have to go but I also have this for you," she reaches into her jacket pocket and takes out the information I asked her to get for me. I open them up and look at them.
"I printed it out for you just to make it easier instead of just taking a picture of it," she explains. I bring her into another hug.
"This spring will be great, don't worry, I'll be there with you," she assures me, knowing I'm nervous.
"Thank you," I squeeze her tight.
"Of course," she says, "Grey went a little crazy on your neck, huh?"
"I told him he's not kissing me because he's sick and so he does this. I don't even have anything with me to cover it up and I'm not about to go see him and all those guys with it being as obvious as it is," we pull away.
She tells me not to worry about it and she drags me to her car where she proceeds to quickly cover my neck up with her makeup. We're pretty much the same skin tone so it all worked out perfectly.
After Abby and I say our goodbyes, I take a couple of hours to wander around the store doing whatever Mr. Terrip needs me to do. Dust, arrange books, put away new books, clean thewindows, and whatever else he needs to make up for all the time I wasn't able to come here.
By closing time, everything he needs to be done is done and I feel accomplished with myself. I even got a few minutes just to myself.
