Total pages in book: 135
Estimated words: 124451 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 622(@200wpm)___ 498(@250wpm)___ 415(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 124451 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 622(@200wpm)___ 498(@250wpm)___ 415(@300wpm)
The girls roll their eyes at his back, and I try not to laugh at his expense. “Really though, I’m just happy to have my freedom back. Don’t get me wrong, being holed up with Tanner for weeks on end, using him as my personal sex slave and butler isn’t so bad, but I’m ready for life to get back to normal. Besides, if I have to spend one more day sleeping in the same room as Jax, I’m going to go insane. I don’t know how you ever spent so much time with him. The guy is a basket case.”
Arizona smirks before remembering she’s supposed to hate him right now and presses her lips into a hard line. “How, umm … how is he?” she asks, hesitation strong in her tone. “I mean like, he’s not dying or anything?”
“He’ll live,” I tell her. “He’s healing fine, but he’s super irritable. You know what he’s like. He can’t handle sitting around and doing nothing. It was a win being cleared to come back to school, but his doctor hasn’t cleared him for exercise yet. That could still be a while. He has to take it easy, and hoooooly shit, he’s pissed. It basically puts him out for the rest of the season. I heard about it all night.”
Arizona cringes as Ilaria just laughs. “I do not envy you,” she says. “I got locked in the closet with him in seventh grade after playing seven minutes in heaven. This was back when he was a frigid little bitch and was too scared to say the word pussy, let alone eat one, and instead of rocking my world for seven minutes straight, the idiot just talked, like non-stop to the point I had to bail early. He was literally sucking all the oxygen out of the closet, and I swore that I’d never be locked in the same room alone with him ever again. Like seriously, girl,” she says, turning to Arizona. “It’s not too late to reconsider this whole wanting to be with him thing. Honestly, I don’t know how he doesn’t drive you insane.”
Arizona gives her a forced smile, clearly trying to hide just how much it hurts, but she won’t be getting away with it that easily. After all, in her attempt to avoid Jax, she’s also been avoiding me, and I won’t stop until I know she’s okay.
We walk up the steps and into the school before making our way down the hall and stopping at Chanel’s locker. “So, how are you doing?” I ask Ari as we watch Chanel riffle through her things, looking for who the hell knows what. “You know … after everything went down at the track?”
Ari shrugs her shoulders, her lips pulling into a sad smile. “I’m fine,” she tells me. “Really. I’ve had a few weeks to process. As bad as it sounds, you guys getting hurt has distracted me from the whole Jax doesn’t want to be with me thing, so it’s made it a little easier. But now that you’re all back, I don’t think I can avoid it any longer.”
“There’s no way in hell,” I say. “That idiot has been moping for three weeks straight. Every day he’d ask me if you were coming to visit or if I’d heard from you. I know you needed space from him to figure yourself out, but he’s really missing his friend.”
Ari scoffs. “He’s missing getting his dick sucked.”
“That too,” I laugh before leaning in. “Haven’t you heard?” I question, lowering my voice and watching as the idea of gossip has her eyes widening with excitement. She leans in to hear me better and a wide grin cuts across my face. “He can’t get off. He hasn’t been able to come since the last time you two were together. He’s tried everything. At first, he was trying to rub one out, but couldn’t bend or move that way because it hurt, which honestly sounds like shit to me because all he had to do was lay there and grab it. I mean, there’s not that much movement involved for a guy, so I think he was trying but just couldn’t, you know … finish.”
Her brows shoot up and she gapes at me. “You’re lying.”
“Cross my heart and hope to die,” I say as the girls continue up the hallway, me and Ari trailing behind. “He was desperate. I bet everything I have that his dick is red raw from going at it for days straight without a happy ending. He’s been so snappy and frustrated, but I would be too if I couldn’t come.”
“Holy fuck.”
“Yeah, the guys suggested he just find some random chick and fuck her like he always does, but he couldn’t do it. The only person he wants to fuck is you. You’re the chosen one, Ari. You’ve got the magic vag.”