Page 72 of Mr. Swoony

“Shit, Magic, you’re pretty enough. What’s all this shit for?” Tweetie asks with a grin.

“It’s Pinkie’s girl’s. Maybe you should’ve helped?” He eyes me.

“It’s mine too. Stop being so dramatic.” Kyleigh slaps Rowan on the back. “Hey, Ruby,” she says, beelining it right to her and Jade.

“Don’t worry, I got it all.” Rowan drops three bags by my car and takes the other ones to Henry’s.

“Oh, we both know how much you love it when I dote on you for being so strong.” Kyleigh and Jade look at one another and smile.

Girls and their games.

I round the truck, picking up Eloise’s bags. Ruby talks with Jade and Kyleigh about camping and how she’s a city girl and doesn’t see the sense in sleeping on the ground when there are perfectly good mattresses to be had. I put Eloise’s tote bag on the top of the luggage since I don’t know if she wants it up front with her.

“Shit, I forgot to pull out my charger.” Tweetie’s shoulder presses to mine as he moves Eloise’s bag off his and digs inside for his phone charger.

Eloise’s bag topples over, and everything falls out of the top. “Fuck, Tweetie.”

“Sorry.” He reaches to help me.

“I got it.”

“Tweetie,” Kyleigh calls him over, and he walks away.

I pick up Eloise’s book, a notebook, her phone charger, her AirPods, and all the other stuff she had in the tote. I put the items back inside but spot a stray piece of paper between my duffle bag and one of the sleeping bags. It’s another list in Eloise’s handwriting, and it’s not titled anything.

The first thing I read is “Watch porn together.”

I look to my left, but everyone is talking, and no one paying me any attention.

I shouldn’t be reading this, but I can’t help myself, especially when I see “Have an orgasm by oral.” What the fuck? Has she never come from a man’s tongue on her pussy?

“Here she is,” Kyleigh says, and I shove the paper back into the tote and pack it away. “Come here. We have someone really important to introduce you to.”

“Sorry I’m late,” Eloise says.

Stepping away from the truck, I join the group and take the rest of her bags.

“Oh, thanks,” Eloise says.

“You’re welcome.”

She wouldn’t be thanking me if she knew my dick was currently half chub from reading what I’m pretty sure is a rundown of sexual shit she wants to knock off her list. I place her bag in the truck, and I swear her tote bag is the only thing I see in the sea of bags. It’s like Where’s Waldo, and once you spot him, you can’t unsee him.

Shutting the back door of the SUV, I huddle around Ruby with everyone else.

“So, you ran away?” Ruby asks Eloise.

Eloise glances at me and back at her. “I did.”

“And this fool asked you to move in with him?”

She glances at me again. “He did.”

“Well, I’m sorry you almost married an asshole. I can vouch for Conor. He’s a great guy—when his head is out of his ass at least.”

I scoff at her. “Rubes?”

“Why does she get the warm and fuzzy version of you?” Jade asks Ruby.

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