“Tired? Or a two pump–”
I cover her face with a pillow, and her laugh is the last thing I hear before passing out.
Chapter Seventeen
Sage
Iswing my curtains openand smile with my eyes closed as I soak up the sun. When I open my eyes, they land on the Peach sticker on my window, and my smile widens.
“It’s morning, everyone! Today’s the day, the sun is shining, the tank is clean, and we are getting out of–” I let out a fake gasp, and I notice Liam jump up from his sleep. He looks around frantically before his eyes land on me.
“The tank is clean!” I fake my shock again.
“What thefuckare you talking about right now?” He flops back onto my pillow and covers his face with the blanket.
“You don’t know that line fromFinding Nemo?” I point at Peach, the starfish, although Liam isn’t looking at me anymore. “It’s one of my favorite movies.”
“The dumb blue fish?”
I let out a laugh and climb back into bed. “That’s Dory, not Nemo.” I think for a second and turn to the Dory sticker I also have on my window. “And she’s not dumb; she has short-term memory loss.”
“Okay, Dory.”
I turn to Liam and he’s shaking his head. “Sage,” he corrects himself, and I bite back a smile. “Fuck, what time is it?”
I pick up my phone. “It’s almost seven-thirty.”
He lets out a very big sigh and covers his head with another pillow. “I’mneverstaying over again if you wake up this early.”
“Well, that’s rude. I thought we had fun.” I feel a smile creep onto my face as I lean down to him. “My two pump–”
In a quick move, he slams the pillow over my face and keeps it there as hesuffocatesme!
“Dory—fuck,Sage.”
I let out a muffled laugh, and he pushes the pillow onto my face harder, which only makes me laugh harder.
“My brain is barely awake, so I’m going back to sleep, but tonight, you’re in trouble.”
I feel the bed shift as he flops back down, and when I move the pillow, I see him already falling back to sleep.
“Whatever you say, Liam Leslie.”
“Stopcalling me that!” He pulls the blanket over his head, and I break into a laugh as I hop out of bed.
As I’m crossing out the days on my calendar, my heart drops.
“Oh no!” I race for my phone and pull up the shelter's page, and when I see there are still a few animals that weren’t adopted in time, I grab all of my things to leave. I posted about it when I walked past the shelter and noticed a few animals were going to be put down but, so many people are opposed to cats.
I’m looking for my car keys when I remember it’s in the shop. “Dammit!” I try to order a car, but none are available, so I run back to my room. “Liam!” I pull the blanket off of him, but he immediately pulls it back over his face.
“Shut the curtains. You–”
“Liam,pleaselet me borrow your car!”
“Are you insane?”
“Excuse me–”
