Page 66 of Unbound
Kitty leaves with her dicks, while Raven, Lenny and I head to the bar. Actually, we walk. We can’t drive.
WALKING TO THEbar wasn’t bad at all and we managed to make it.
“Holy shit, they’re busy tonight!” Lenny yells, stashing her tequila near the door.
Raven looks at her like she’s lost her mind, one hand on the door. “You know that won’t be here when we come out, right?”
“I know but I can’t take it in there.”
The moment we step foot inside the bar, it’s shoulder to shoulder and I know why. The boys are on stage singing karaoke. Tyler’s at the microphone, completely tone deaf with Red, Rawley, Daniel, and two guys I’ve never seen up there as well.
Everyone’s cheering them on as they attempt to sing an AC/DC song.
Raven shakes her head searching inside her bag of goodies she brought with us. “This is awful. We should have stayed with skater boy.”
Lenny steps inside and takes a seat near the door at the only open table. “I need another drink.”
“Here.” Raven lays a bag of Life Savers and a roll of tape on the table. “Help me with these, Sophie. We’re gonna tape them all over her. Suck for a buck game.”
We probably tape a hundred of those things to her. Well, maybe not a hundred, but it’s a lot.
And fun… until the guys in the bar started to rip the ones off her chest. Keep in mind at this point, we’ve drank entirely too much and good decisions are long gone.Longgone. It’s a fun game though.
Shit hits the fan when her soon-to-be husband catches wind of guys using their mouths to suck candy off his bride-to-be and stuffing dollar bills in her dress. Hey, at least she made more tonight than the kid did.
Red jumps down from the stage. “What the fuck? Why are you covered in candy?”
Lenny grins, cherry red-lipped and bright-eyed. “Suck for a buck!”
He shakes his head, like he didn’t hear her correctly, his hands on her shoulders. “I’m sorry, what?”
“Suck for a buck,” she repeats and then winks at him, showing him the cherry Life Saver in her mouth. “If you want to suck, give me a buck.”
Red’s brow furrows and his intimidating-as-fuck glare moves from his soon-to-be wife to me, and then Raven. “Who’s idea was this?”
Lenny points to Raven and smacks me in the face in the process. “Raven’s.”
Raven must feel the pressure from her brother and cracks. “Sophie hired an underage stripper.”
I smack her on the side of the head. “I did not,liar.”
Red finally notices Raven’s dress, mostly because she will not stop pulling it down. Mostly because it’s all up in her V. “What are you wearing? You’re dressed like a hooker.”
“That’s what I said,” Rawley notes, making his way over to us. I can tell he’s definitely had one too many, but he’s not the obnoxious drunk I’m used to. He’s the carefree version of himself I fell in love with and that’s a little difficult for me. Especially when he puts his arm around me, leaning into my shoulder.
I don’t push him away. I physically can’t. Iwanthim this close.
“You guys need to stop judging my dress,” Raven tells them, looking around the bar for Tyler. “My man likes it. That’s all that matters.” With an awkward strut, she walks up to Tyler who’s leaned up against the stage singing a half-wasted version of Garth Brooks’s “Friends in Low Places.”
Red rips the candy off Lenny’s chest and eats a green one while staring at her. “How about I suck for a fuck?”
“You have to wait for our wedding night. How about a lap dance?”
Rawley coughs and then tightens his arm around my shoulder, dragging me to the bar. “I don’t want to see that. Come on, girl. Let me buy you a drink.”
Laughing, mostly because I have some liquor-goofiness in me, I go with him.
My heart thumps wildly in my chest the second we’re at the bar, alone. Does he want to talk about what happened between us?
