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?”

check the time.

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 pissed out of

pounding so loud, I

of words my brother is going to scream at me when the time finally comes. Blake or

her. “I’m going to

the second you hang up with

“Okay,”

“Wait.”

the thought that there might be more. I hold my breath

“Who’s at your house?”

the last few minutes, I gently lift the curtain to take another peek outside. “Just the boys-Blake, Ryan, and the usual

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

is concerned

even with

hard I’m rolling my eyes.” I make sure my voice shows

call and find Easton in my Contacts, holding the phone to my face as it

to see Miss Desperate is calling,” a girl says into the phone. “How many times a

right number. My stomach drops when I see that I

pathetic, Harper,” she continues, “you’ll do anything for attention, won’t

don’t need to ask who it

I know.

that my stomach has lowered as far as it

are you answering Easton’s

chest aches as every possibility begins to

was just

now, he’s with

just keeps flipping

time, my heart breaks a little

is”-she giggles so loudly,”tied up at the moment. Or, should I say, I’ve tied him up. But his mouth is far too busy to

His . mouth?

one that was between my

same one that made me come so hard, I saw

…

going

the same sound I made when he was going down