He laughed. “You know you love me. Now shall we?” He gestured to the door.

Above the door in a bright pink scrawl were the words: Single Girl Rule #1: Boys are replaceable. Friends are forever.

I had never heard of Single Girl Rules before. Only girl code. But I assumed it was something like that based on the rule. And even though Liam and RJ were boys and everyone in this room was related to me, they were my closest friends. And maybe just maybe I’d been a little harsh with them.

“I’m sorry I was freaking out, guys,” I said. “I just didn’t expect to fall through the ceiling tonight. But thank you. For helping me break out.” I couldn’t have done it without them.

“No problem,” Sophie said and handed me the pair of black heels she’d promised to bring me. I just hoped they were hers and didn’t belong to the woman who lived here. I kicked off my sneakers and slipped on the heels. “Seriously, I appreciate it.”

RJ saluted me and Liam just shrugged.

“But we will fix that, right?” I said and pointed to the ceiling.

“Yup,” RJ said. “You have my word.”

As annoying as he sometimes was, he never broke his word. “Okay, then I guess we have a party to go to.”

Sophie smiled. “Axel is going to lose his mind when he sees you.”

I looked down at my heels. They looked much better with my dress than the sneakers had. “We better make this a night to remember, because if my dad sees that hole I’ll never be allowed out of my room again.”

“This is already the best night ever,” RJ said.

“Which part?” The making a hole in the ceiling? Seeing my parents banging? Watching me almost break my neck?

“All of it.”

I glared at him. He liked power tools too much for his own good.

“Are you sure you don’t want to wear the fur coat?” Sophie asked. “You’d look like such a boss strolling in...”

“Absolutely not,” I said.

She shrugged. “You’re right. You don’t need it. Isn’t Axel going to drool when he sees her, guys?”

“Can we not?” Liam said.

“Yeah,” RJ said.

I ignored both of them and stood up a little straighter. We had a party to get to.

Chapter 10 – The Blowjob Phase?

Friday

RJ pulled into the warehouse district.

And yes, I know there was a lot wrong with that sentence. Because RJ was 14 and didn’t have a license and shouldn’t be the one driving us around in Sophie’s car. But more importantly…why the hell were we in the warehouse district? I’d told him to make a turn ten minutes ago and he just flat out ignored me.