Total pages in book: 56
Estimated words: 54091 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 270(@200wpm)___ 216(@250wpm)___ 180(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 54091 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 270(@200wpm)___ 216(@250wpm)___ 180(@300wpm)
My heart races as I glance at the faces of my closest friends. I’m a sharer, and I can’t hold it in any longer.
“Speaking of, um, bones ... Leo and I are a thing now.”
Suki gasps and covers her mouth with her hands. Harry just gapes at me. Lainey smiles. And Dex laughs.
“I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!” Suki is stomping her feet and practically dancing in her chair.
“Okay, focus, people,” Dex says. “What’s the bone in the forearm that is on the thumb side?”
Lainey draws her brows together, looking thoughtful as she studies her own arm. “Radius. Tell us more, Mara.”
I try to think of the words, which is usually my thing, but it’s hard. I can feel everything that’s happened between me and Leo, but it feels impossible to describe it.
“I didn’t even realize it was happening,” I say. “I knew things were changing between us, but ...”
“I genuinely thought you two couldn’t stand each other,” Harry says.
“That was real.”
“I don’t think so,” Suki says.
I roll my eyes and laugh. “Well, you’d know better than me.”
“I always saw fire between the two of you. Not just a spark, but like a full-on bonfire. Leo doesn’t get upset over anyone or anything but you.”
That’s true. He’s always been very vocal about not wanting to be around me. And I’ve been the same way. Looking back, part of me meant it and part of me didn’t. It was mostly my embarrassment over him seeing me naked that made me so defensive.
“Is that a good thing, though?” I ask.
Dex scoffs. “I don’t even have to ask if the sex was good. I’m super jealous. You two could probably fuck a headboard all the way through the wall.”
A few seconds of silence pass, all of them giving me an expectant look.
“What?”
Dex widens his eyes, looking impatient. “Are you new here? We’re waiting to hear about the sex.”
My cheeks get warm. “I don’t want to talk about it.”
“That’s okay,” Lainey says.
The other three, who have known me a lot longer, are all giving me looks of either shock or confusion.
“You made us listen to a full recounting of the guy who got diarrhea in the middle of sex with you and tried to finish,” Harry says. “I can’t unknow that.”
Lainey cringes. “Really?”
“I made him leave and take my ruined bedsheets with him.”
Dex snaps his fingers at us. “The funny bone isn’t a bone. What is it?”
“Isn’t it a nerve?” Suki says.
Lainey, our science expert, nods. Suki records the answer on our score sheet. Then she gives me a concerned look.
“You don’t have to give details, but it was good, right? The sex?”
I can’t help breaking into a huge smile. “It was great.”
She reaches for my hand and squeezes it, her eyes shining with happiness. “I’m so happy for both of you. Let me know when you’re ready to get pregnant.”
“What?” Dex laughs. “What do you have to do with her getting pregnant?”
Suki’s beaming with excitement. “We’re going to try to get pregnant at the same time so we can have kids who are the same age. Lainey, we’d love for you to be part of it, too.”
Lainey freezes, looking like the proverbial deer in headlights.
“That’s insane,” Harry says. “Can I suggest you both only get pregnant if and when you and your partner are ready?”
Suki glares at him. “Well, of course we’ll do that. I just want to time it together if we can.”
“Does Leo know Suki is planning your future children?” Dex asks me.
I shake my head. “We aren’t even in a relationship. We just decided to stop hating each other like five minutes ago.”
“I don’t mean right now or anything,” Suki says, looking aggravated.
“Next question, ready guys?” the trivia host says into his microphone. “What is the smallest bone in the human body?”
“Probably one of the bones in your pinkie,” Harry says. “Or your little toe. Do those bones all have different names?”
“It’s the stapes,” Lainey says softly, making sure no one at nearby tables can hear her. “A little bone in the ear.”
“I had a little bone in my ear once when I dated a guy who couldn’t see anything without his glasses,” Dex says. “One minute I was asleep and then, bam—dick in my ear.”
Harry looks horrified. “How fucking small was it if it fit in your ear? I might need to start a GoFundMe for this guy to get a procedure done.”
“It didn’t fit. It just made things weird.”
The food we ordered arrives, and my stomach rumbles so loudly I’m surprised no one comments on it. I got fried mushrooms and potato skins, and it’ll be the first food I’ve eaten all day.
“Are you guys down for some bridespeople outfit shopping next month?” Lainey asks.
She asked all four of us to be attendants at her wedding, which is so Lainey. It seems like she’s been part of our group forever.