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28. Wick
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The Revenge Plan 29. Haven
No. Oh my God, no. Never again! Running was so not the thing for me.“Break,” I gasped, clutching my cramping side. “Let’s take another break.”Though I was freezing my ass off in the early morning chill, sweat poured down my face, while my throat felt as dry as the Sahara.This was just unnatural. And inhumane. Why did people willingly do this?“Just two more blocks and we’ll be home again,” Wick encouraged from next to me. “You got this.”I sent him a glare. I absolutely did not have this. I didn’t have shit.And it was his fault. He’d talked me into this damn crazy idea.Hey, let’s get up at the butt crack of dawn and submit ourselves to continuous physical torture for the next half hour straight. Yeah, it’ll be fun, said the lunatic hottie.And for that, he’d just made the top of my hit list, I swear.But I kept running because, hell… I don’t know. The sooner we got home, the sooner it would be over, I guess.Except half a block from our apartment, he made us stop running
The Revenge Plan 30. Haven
Wick did win his game. I watched it on television, definitely not in the mood to head down to the stadium in person and by myself with all the rumors flying around about me and all the history I had of attending them to support Topher.But watching it alone was kind of depressing. Even though it was nice to see how well my roommate played, I just had no one to brag to about him, because Wick kicked ass. He seriously did. My hands grew sore from the amount of times I high-fived myself after he intercepted the ball, broke up a pass, or made an awesome tackle. It would’ve been nice to share that with someone. But alas, I made do on my own.Sadly, Topher had an on game as well. He was mentioned by the sportscasters just as often as Wick was. Bleh.To get over that bit of nastiness, I made Wick some spaghetti for supper to celebrate, even though if I really wanted to be honest with myself, it was probably mostly an apology meal for what I’d done to him with the bra and the socks and all.
The Revenge Plan 31. Wick
I don’t know why I was suddenly so nervous. Haven had been living with me for weeks now. I’d grown accustomed to walking into a room and finding her there. The shock of seeing her in my home and among my things should’ve definitely worn off by now.But ever since she’d caught me jerking off in the shower, it was hard for me to make direct eye contact with her. I’d avoided her pretty much most of the week, worried about what she thought of me now.To learn she would be coming along on my sibling spook night, on top of all that, just… I don’t know. I wasn’t sure how she’d mesh with my sisters. I wasn’t sure if I was ready for her to see me in a different environment. I wasn’t… Hell, I wasn’t sure that I really wanted her to go. It just felt as if so many things could go wrong. And I didn’t want anything to go wrong.Rushing through my preparation, I was tugging my shirt on as I raced back to the front room, almost afraid to leave her alone with my sisters for too long.What if they d
The Revenge Plan 32. Haven
As Charlie read off the directions to the spook house we were going to, Darcy plugged her phone into the console and typed in the address, making a map pop up on Wick’s navigation screen.All the while, Izzy leaned in toward me and commentated.“Watch this,” she murmured discreetly. “Next, Darcy will bring up a whole playlist of songs she picked out just for this trip.”A second later, Darcy announced, “And… Now for the playlist,” as she tapped buttons on the screen of her phone. “Exactly two hours of eclectic awesomeness.”Izzy and I exchanged secret grins before the song “Shotgun” began to play. On the other side of me, Charlie nodded her head to the beat, tapped her fingers against her knee, and sang along with George Ezra.While Wick concentrated on getting out of the town and onto a stretch of nothing but highway, Darcy twisted in her seat to talk to me. “So, you dated Topher Nicholl, huh? What was that like?”“Darce,” Wick warned, shooting her a hard glance.“What?” his si
The Revenge Plan 33. Henry
Issue 6 of “Hopeless Henry”By Alice BennetTaken from the University GazetteMy freshman year moved into sophomore. With the dawn of a new semester, I was determined to get my shit together.So I followed Rush’s advice; I put everything I had into learning the tuba. My talent grew to the point that when I’d earned enough money to buy a new instrument, I found myself wandering toward the tuba section instead of the trumpets when I entered the music store.I’d lost my taste for trumpets, I guess. Since the ordeal with Reuben, I didn’t want to play anything he played. Hell, I didn’t really even want to be in the same marching band as him, much less the same brass section. But I’d become fond of my tuba, so I decided to put up with that bit of distance.I also set myself up with the goal to stop thinking about Avery. She continued to date Reuben, anyway, which helped me lose some taste for her. Not all of it, but enough to help me turn my attention to Kerri.Kerri played the tuba t
The Revenge Plan 34. Haven
We hit two more spook houses before the night was over. On the trip back to the apartment, the interior of Wick’s truck grew quiet, making me think everyone was getting tired and were ready to drop off.But as soon as he found a parking spot a block from our place, the sisters perked back to life.“Can we drink?” Charlie begged Darcy as we piled out of the truck. “Please, please, please. You let us last year.”“Last year,” Darcy started with a wince. “Was a mistake.”“Oh, come on,” Izzy started in too. “This is the only time Charlie and I get to have a little alcohol.”Their oldest sister sent them a pleasant smirk. “Not true. You can have as much as you please when you both turn twenty-one.”Abandoning her, they turned to their brother. “Wick,” they pleaded, tugging on his arm as we approached the complex.He held up a finger. “One drink.”“Wick,” Darcy cried as the other two cheered and raced on ahead of us.He shrugged. “What’s the harm? They’re going to be inside the rest
The Revenge Plan 35. Haven
I woke to Wick stretching and mumbling out a groan under me.Burrowing deeper into his chest, I yawned and said, “Morning,” before I lifted my face to look up at him.His facial hair looked thicker and more rugged this morning, and his eyes were rimmed in red, telling me just how tired he was.“Good morning,” he offered, blinking sleepily and probably wondering how I’d ended up on top of him. Again.“I hope you don’t mind,” I added. “After getting kicked I-don’t-know-how-many times down there in the dogpile, I crawled up here where it was safer.”“It’s fine,” he answered, cupping my hair affectionately in his hand even as he lifted his face to glance around the living room and orient himself. When he found the pile of blankets and pillows on the floor next to us empty, he frowned and glanced around again until we both heard his sisters talking in the kitchen, pots and pans clanging in the background.“What time is it?” he asked, plopping his head back on the armrest of the couch
The Revenge Plan 36. Wick
“So, let me get this straight,” Cannon said next to me, switching his stretch by alternating his bent leg to straight, then reaching for the opposite toe. “The girl doesn’t even kiss you, but almost kisses you, and you run out to buy her a damn kitten?”I scowled at him. Practice was about to start any minute, and we were doing warm-up exercises on the sidelines of the football field before it did.“I didn’t buy it,” I muttered. “They were just giving them away. She’d always wanted a kitten, and this is honestly the first place she’s ever lived where she could get one. Her mom’s allergic, so she couldn’t have one growing up, then there was no way they would’ve allowed one in the dorms when she moved to college. So…” I shrugged. “It just made sense.”“It just made sense,” Cannon repeated, nodding as if he totally agreed, only to sniff a moment later, and say, “Shit. What’re you going to give her when she actually does kiss you? A damn car?”Jesus. I was going to strangle him. And no
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