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?”

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

car tomorrow morning for school,

so loud, I can hear

brother is going to scream at me when the time finally comes. Blake or Easton-I don’t know which one he’ll

“I’m

back the second you hang up

“Okay,”

“Wait.”

thought that there might be more. I hold my breath and say softly,

“Who’s at your house?”

minutes, I gently lift the curtain to take

“Just checking, you know, for stalker

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

can’t even with

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

in my Contacts, holding the phone to my face as

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

sure I’ve called the right

Harper,” she continues, “you’ll

to ask who it

I know.

as far as

are you answering

chest aches as every possibility

was just

now, he’s with

he just

heart breaks

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

His . mouth?

one that was between

me come so hard,

… he’s licking

really am going

she moans. It’s the same sound I made when he was going down on me. “Easton, oh my God, that feels so