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"Yes I do I’ boy probleo This is total friend duty and I’ht there, lock your doors, and hide the kids I’le-snorted "Did you just quote Antoine Dodson?"

"Maybe" Roxy drew the word out "I’ll be over in like fifteen minutes tops Okay? I just need to brush ht I’ll be here"

I didn’t even think twenty minutes passed, which made me wonder where she lived exactly, because I didn’t know, and how fast she was driving, but she rolled into the house wearing cutoff jean shorts and an oversized tank top that barely covered her sports bra, and her hair in a messier knot than mine She looked unbelievably cute, in a way I couldn’t hope if I dressed like that

She was also carrying a white box that she plopped down on the coffee table "I brought doughnuts We need fat for this conversation"

I didn’t think I could eat without hurling, but it was supersweet of her She sat on the couch and leaned forward, slipping open the lid and revealing an assortrabbed some leftover fast-food napkins off the kitchen counter and joined her on the couch

She’d already dehnut "Tella pent-up breath, I sat beside her and told her everything, starting with Ai with thisplans for when I returned to school When I finished, I surprised hnut

"Okay" She plucked up her fourth doughnut and I wondered where she’d put the other three "Let’s start with Aiuy will turn her down and I’m pretty sure she has to know he’s into you, because everyone knows Hell They see it"

"See it?"

Roxy grinned around a hnut "From the minute you showed up, Jax had his eyes on you, literally and figuratively It’s pretty obvious"

War that people thought that Then I felt kind of dumb, because it probably wasn’t as awesome to other people as it was to s on Jax," she continued "I’ve been perfecting lare on her since she hit the bar Sadly, it isn’t working"

I cracked a grin at that as I popped a s on Reece, either

"Jax doesn’t feed into it Granted, he could dothe senti up a napkin, she wiped at her fingers "It takes a lot to get under his skin You’ve seen that And he’s way nice to us feht"

"He was," I whispered

"But you also have a right to be pissed with everything"

"I do? Right?"

She nodded

Thank God, I wasn’t coiant screwup

"I’d cut a bitch if she showed up in the ht at my man’s house, if I had a man, but whatever I’d probably want to cut hiet over it, but"

I sat back, tucking my knees to my chest "Here comes the ‘I fked up’ part?"

"Yes And no" Roxy smiled as she twisted toward ht Hopefully it’s your only relationship, but it’s definitely not going to be your last fight This is probably going to happen a lot of tiot about that because I was an idiot

"And you did basically accuse Jax of being an activeto be pissed, but he’s not going to stop liking you And if he’s does, he isn’t worth your time But that’s not how Jax is He’ll cool down and you till be fine"

Nibbling onon inshe said was reasonable Hope sparked "Do you think I should call hiested "It’s never wrong to let the guy co and you need to reht" I sighed, tipping ainst the couch "Do you think I should’ve left this lasses "Well, if you didn’t have all this crazy stuff going on? It probably wouldn’t have ht"

"No He’s going to the party You and Nick are working tonight, reainst the arot"

"Did you ht"

Roxy laughed "I’d need to have a life to have plans, but I was planning on lying out, reading, and eating junk food into the wee hours of the night like any hot, single twenty-two-year-old"

I laughed

Her smile widened and then our eyesto be okay"

I se of a co, I felt a lot better, like everything really would be okay "Thank you"

"If not, I’m sure your mom has a little black book around here and she probably knows sohing

She giggled as she curled up against the arm She was so tiny, she barely took up half a cushion "We’ll call that Plan B"

"What’s Plan A?"

"You show up at his place wearing nothing but a sleek black trench coat and when he opens the door, you juain, I shook my head "I like Plan A"

"And I bet he would, too"

Wednesday night, I was a bundle of nerves My stomach was full of therabbed with Roxy after we visited Clyde, which was nothing irlie reasons, I’d taken ot ready for my shift as Roxy waited for me I put waves into lided on a shade lighter than criuys from the bachelor party would probably hit the bar at soetting a hold of Jax until I’d gotten into my own car and Roxy was in hers I’d sent hiht Then, because I’d been scared like a little girl with a monster in the closet, I’d dropped my phone in my purse and turned the ot to the bar

No response

"Not a big deal," I’d told myself as I cli

There’d been no response at six

There’d been no response by nine

And toall the more screwed up, Aimee was conspicuously absent froe, butto think that ed hisokay?" Roxy asked after I handed over an appletini I wasn’t sure Itotally paranoid "Yeah"

She watched me carefully "You haven’t heard fro my jaw shut, I shook aze swung toward it sharply and ht It wasn’t Jax