He Slept With My Roommate, So I Moved In With the Hockey Captain novel · Chapter 19 of 32

Chapter 19: Louder, the Back Couldn't Hear

We won five to two, and by eleven the house held ninety people and one inflatable hockey stick.

I stood in the kitchen doorway with a cup of root beer and a clear view of the front door.

Brody was beside me with his hand at the small of my back.

He had stopped asking whether that was allowed.

"She'll come," I said.

"She'll come," he agreed.

At eleven-twenty she did.

Kayla walked in alone, in a red dress and a gold necklace, with a face that said she'd been crying for a good reason.

She did not look at me.

She went straight to the center of the living room, where a dozen girls from her sorority stood by the speaker, and put a hand over her mouth.

"I can't believe it," she said, in a carrying whisper. "She's here. After everything."

The girls closed around her.

I put my cup down.

"Wait for it," Brody said, very low.

"Wait for what?"

"For her to say August."

It took her less than a minute.

"I don't want to make a scene," Kayla told her audience. "I'm just trying to get through the night. But it's so hard when you find out your best friend has been lying to you for months, and she's happy, and you're the one getting called a villain."

"Who lied?" asked a girl in a sweater.

"Maggie. Since August. With him." She flicked a hand at Brody without looking. "I tried to protect her. Look where it got me."

I walked into the living room.

The speaker was loud, but my voice carried, because I had spent three years working the front desk at a library where nobody laughed.

"Kayla."

The room turned.

She kept her hand on her mouth, but I saw the pupils flick.

"Hi, Mags." Her voice shook. "I didn't know you'd be..."

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