You’re Mine by Penny Brooks

Chapter 48

Harper

“I think I’m going to be sick,” I say to Sadie the second she answers her phone.

“Why? What’s going on?”

I’m huddled on my bed, looking out my window to the backyard where the boys are all sitting around the table, smoking weed.

Everyone except for Easton.

After he told me to go back in my room, a few minutes later I heard his engine rev and I watched him drive away and he hasn’t returned. And now Blake is sitting next to Ryan, the seat Easton had been in.

But I’ve still been watching, waiting, hoping he comes back.

“Blake saw us,” I whisper, even though none of the boys can hear me.

“Saw who?”

“Me and Easton, kissing in the doorway of my bedroom.”

“Whoa.”

“And Easton and Blake got into it and Blake asked me who I liked kissing more.”

“What did you say?”

I run my hand over my forehead, my pick so obvious to both of us. “Nothing, Easton saved me before I had to answer. Sadie, this is a total nightmare.”

“No, a nightmare will be if Blake tells Ryan. Do you think he’s going to?”

The thought has been haunting me and I don’t know what to do about it. I definitely can’t go downstairs and ask Blake, that’ll just be weird. And I don’t want to ask my

brother to come upstairs so we can talk, that will be even weirder.

When Ryan hears I’ve made out with both of his best friends, he’s going to kill me.

“Oh God,” I groan, rocking over my bed. “I hope not.”

“What’s happening now? Where are the boys?” I fill her in on the logistics of everyone, and then she asks, “How long has Easton been gone?”

screen of my phone to check the time. “About twenty minutes. Maybe a

once the boys went downstairs. Before you get into Ryan’s car tomorrow morning for school, you need to know what you’re walking into-whether he’s oblivious or

so loud,

the choice of words my brother is going to scream at me when the time finally comes. Blake or Easton-I don’t know which

I tell her. “I’m

back the second you hang up with

“Okay,”

“Wait.”

my stomach lurching at the thought that there might be more. I hold my breath and say softly,

“Who’s at your house?”

case anything has changed in the last few minutes, I gently lift the curtain to take

hear her smiling. “Just checking, you know, for

a mental breakdown and my best friend is concerned there might be a girl

can’t even with

my eyes.” I make sure my voice

find Easton in my Contacts,

a girl says into the phone. “How many

right number. My stomach drops when

you’re so pathetic, Harper,” she continues, “you’ll do

don’t need to ask

I know.

now that my stomach has lowered as far as it will go,

are you answering

every possibility begins to

just

now, he’s with

switch, he just keeps flipping between

my heart breaks a

moment. Or, should I say, I’ve tied him up. But his mouth is far too busy

His . mouth?

that was between my

same one that made me

now … he’s licking

going

he was going down on