My Hockey Bully Stepbrother
She was maybe thirty feet away with Ruby, both of them standing near the edge of the crowd, and there was a guy talking to Summer, close enough to be trying, and Summer was laughing at something he said and her head was tilted slightly and she looked happy and completely unaware of me.
I watched her for exactly three seconds too long.
"Babe." Brianna's voice. "You're not here. Where did you go?"
She started to turn to follow my eyeline and I put my hand on her waist and brought her attention back.
"Sorry," I said. "Thought I heard Marcus."
"Let Marcus find his own night," she said, and tucked herself back under my arm.
I looked at the stage.
A few minutes later Summer looked over and our eye