As soon as I slid into Anna's car, I heard her cat calling. I didn't even close the door, yet before she hyped me up.“Look at you! You look hot!” She screeched playfully.So does she.She is wearing a black dress, strapless, with will lace designs going across in several spots. “Look who's talking.” I giggled and closed the door.“You ready to hit it?” She asked as she put the car in drive and pulled out of my driveway. Of course, I'm reading to hit it. I didn't get this dressed up for anything. Sheesh.Therefore, I inform her I am indeed ready to hit it.“Hell yeah” I mimicked her screech of excitement, causing her to laugh.“You will love my brother's friends. They are cool. They treat me like a child” She stops to roll her eyes before adding, “but they still cool”“No offense, but I'd rather not come into contact with your brother on my first night out.” I groaned and glanced pitiful as I looked over at her. “He will be there. They hang there every Friday night. It's a standing
The next few hours, Anna and I were both much drunker than we intended to get. She carried on ordering drinks, and I continued on drinking them. It's not her fault, though. I know when to stop, I just chose not to. Instead, I kept on drinking, dancing and even learned to twerk.After Anna and I watched Cedric and his partner and also best friend Lucas hog the pool table for thirty minutes, Anna practically laid herself across the pool table, demanding that it was our turn. Cedric and Lucas either were done playing or just didn't want to deal with her tantrum, but they both handed us their cue sticks and stepped back. We were horrible at it. We kept knocking the balls so hard with the pool stick that they ended up flying off the table and onto the floor with loud bangs. One even hit the wall. My fault. I never played before. I tried telling her I never played before and wouldn't be good at it, but she didn't want to hear it. She still wanted to play and taunted that she could beat
We have been sitting in silence for several minutes. His truck smells like him, musk, and leather. When I say musk, I don't mean the stinky kind; I mean the manly mankind that makes your head spin when it hits your nose. I decided I'm tired of sitting and silence and bringing a hand to the radio, turning it on. The sound of a rock beat suddenly hits my ears, and before I can even listen to five seconds of the song, he turns it off.“Why did you do that?” I swung my gaze toward him, frowned, and demanded an explanation. It was better than sitting in silence, for fuck's sake.“I don't want it on.” He says.That's it?He doesn't want it on, so it can't be on?Ugh, fine. Damn, my legs are hurting from all that dancing. I take my shoes off and raise them so that they settle on top of the dash. They just need to be straightened out.“Feet off.” He growls.Jeez. His in a mood.“What's up your ass?” I grunted and crossed my arms.“I don't like feet on my dash.” “You need to relax,” I advis
Avery's P.O.VMy phone alarm wakes me up the next morning. It pulls me out of my dream. I was little, with my parents on a vacation. It was just a simple vacation. We had gone to the beach, but those brief memories are what I hold close to my heart.I stretch out my arms and yawn before reaching over to my nightstand and grabbing my phone to check the time. Nine am. That's not too bad. I figured I'd sleep later than that. I scroll through my notifications and see that Anna's texted me three times. Oops.Anna - You made it home?Anna – If you don't text me, I'm going to call my brother. Did he piss you off? Whatever he did, it's not my fault Aves.Anna – You better call me when you wake up. I'm worried.Crap. Now I feel bad. I was supposed to message her when I made it back home, but dealing with Cedric took all my energy out, and oh shit. I completely forgot that he slept over last night. I wonder if he is still here. I quickly type Anna a message as I climb out the bed.Me – I'm sor
A few minutes later, after Cedric finished the dishes, he told me that he needed to head home to shower and that he would see me later on at his parent's house. Now I'm once again alone in my home, sipping on a delicious cup of Carmel coffee and thinking about that missing woman. Is that what could have happened to me? Now I'm starting to believe what I had originally thought. Someone broke in. That someone could have hurt me or kidnapped me like that poor lady. If I'm being honest with myself, I am kind of scared to sleep alone now. But I'm a big girl. I'll make sure I secured all my windows and doors before heading to bed. I'll keep my bedroom door locked. That will give me a little time to at least wake up and run into my bathroom again.I just hoped it worked a second time if anything happened again. Maybe I was wrong about Cedric. Might not be such an asshole as I originally thought. He didn't have to sleep over last night. He could have dropped me off and left me alone, but h
I'm now standing on the front porch. I have raised and put my hand down three times. Butterflies swarm around my belly as I try to gather the courage to knock on the door. Sure, I could have called Anna to let her know I was pulling up, but I didn't. I wanted to knock like the big girl I am. My body doesn't think I'm a good girl though, because it's a struggle to knock.I saw Cedric's truck outside along with Anna's' car, so I see they are both inside. I don't know what I'm going to say to Cedric, and I realize that's the reason my belly feels like it's flipping inside of me. It was nothing I know, he just stayed over to make sure I was safe. I appreciate he did that so much, even if I gave him a little attitude about it.The warm pan I have the cookies sitting in weighs heavily inside my hands as I bite my bottom lip, balance the pan with one hand, and knock.Please don't let Cedric be the one to answer the door.The door swung open a minute later, and the breath that I didn't reali
I'm pulling into my driveway hours later. I had a great time today with Anna and her family. Apparently her family was big on family things. Family things like board games. Yes, we played board games, and let's just say I'm a sore loser. I liked to win and when Cedric and his dad kept beating us women at every game, Anna and I gave attitude.First, we played monopoly. Cedric and Mr. Glenn won.Second, we played scrabble. They won again.Last we played Jenga and you guess it. They won. Again.“You both are cheating.” Anna snapped when we got done with the last game, looking ready to throw the little jenga pieces around the living room.“Now pumpkin, you know I don't let y'all win. Earn it.” Mumbled Mr. Glenn, who looked very much used to his daughter's little tantrums. “We didn't win a single game, Glenn.” Huffed Helen as she took a big gulp out of her wineglass.Even though my team kept losing, I just had an awesome time. Cedric let me be after our little talk in the pool. I suspect
Later that night, I'm sitting in the police station. Cedric and Lucas called it in, and soon I had law enforcement cars filling up my driveway. They had roped off my kitchen. Which is a shame because when I'm stressed, I like to bake, and I'm extremely stressed, and I would like nothing more than to be in my kitchen right now baking up a storm.Sadly, I'm not in my kitchen. I'm sitting in a cold room. In front of a mirror that i know is a two-way mirror. Grey bricks surrounding the room. Cedric had another officer named Williams drive me here. He said it would be safe for me. Safe while he looked around my home. Before I left, I had seen forensic guys combing over my little kitchen. Hopefully, they cleaned up my counter, I couldn't help but think.I'll need about three containers of bleach before it will satisfy me that my kitchen is once again baking worthy. I use my counter to roll my dough. So, I require it to be cleaned. Before I got into the police station, Cedric had grabbed my