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?”

of my phone to check

find out what happened once the boys went downstairs. Before you get into Ryan’s car tomorrow morning for

pounding so loud, I

words my brother is going to scream at me when

right,” I tell her. “I’m going to

second you hang up with

“Okay,”

“Wait.”

the thought that there might be more.

“Who’s at your house?”

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

could hear her smiling. “Just checking, you

mental breakdown and my best friend is concerned

even

you could see how hard I’m rolling my eyes.” I make sure my voice shows how annoyed I am.

Easton in my Contacts, holding

calling,” a girl says into the phone. “How many times a day do you call Easton?

make sure I’ve called the right number.

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

to ask who

I know.

stomach has lowered as far as it will go, it

are you answering Easton’s

every possibility begins to run through my

was just

he’s with

just keeps flipping between

heart breaks a

giggles so loudly,”tied up at the moment. Or, should I say, I’ve

His . mouth?

was between my

me come so hard, I

… he’s licking

really am going to be

the same sound I made when he was going down on me. “Easton, oh my God,