Chapter 174

I Need Them

I need to get out of the house.

The walls of my room have been starting to suffocate me and my head hurts from all the crying. Everything is closing in and I know I'm letting my thoughts go just a little too

crazy.

I can't sort through them.

I make up my mind to go bother Nikki. She'll listen without judging me and I think I need her overpowering personality right about now.

I text her before I even put my shoes on.

A: Coming over. Need some Nikki therapy.

Her response is immediate.

N: Door's open. I'll be waiting. <3

By the time I get to her house, she's already in the kitchen, digging through the cabinets. She barely glances at me as she pulls out an old bottle of vodka, shaking it for emphasis.

"Something tells me we're going to need this. Wait, you're not pregnant, right? You've been ignoring my messages."

I roll my eyes. "You mean the ones were you just send me the pregnant emoji with a question mark?"

She shrugs. "I didn't think I needed to spell it out for you."

I drop onto a stool at the kitchen island, exhaling sharply. “I'm not pregnant.”

Nikki freezes, then slowly turns to face me. Her lips part like she wants to say something, but then she just sighs, a deep sigh of relief: "Holy shit."

I let out a breath of my own as she twists the cap off the bottle and pours two shots. She slides one toward me before raising hers.

"To not being pregnant."

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I echo, and we both throw them

but I barely feel it. My

to say anything before Nikki is

that's not all

at my shot glass, running my finger around the rim. "It's

up. "Of course it

it hit me like a freight train. How I don't know what to do with it, how it's

finish,

breathes, shaking

press my

"I'm so sorry."

stream of air and reach for the bottle, ditching

taking a long

tilting her

hiss, grimacing from the burn down my throat. I fucking hate vodka.

room, and she plays with the glass

me. "Do you love Jake and Aiden like that

in my chest at the thought.

her lips. "I

right. It's different. I love Zaid, but Jake

would destroy

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taking a sip from the

like

is it the alcohol making me so

How do you think they would all feel about

"Do I

"Don't you want to tell

infuriates me that he finds it so easy to just brush me off sometimes. Is it possible for someone

the same time?"

"I would hope

my head onto the

you're dating three guys. You

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