Page 23 of Ride or Die
"What are you doing here, Sketch," Rivet asks him.
"I heard Wren didn't want to come to the party, so I offered to come hang out with her. Give the prospects a little break," he explains. Emma eyes at him suspiciously but doesn't say anything. Rivet smirks at him.
"How sweet of you," she says to him. He shrugs in response.
"Are you ladies ready," Mouse asks us.
"Yup!" Emma bounces down the porch stairs. "Let's go, Mousey."
Everyone laughs except for Mouse, who looks to Sketch.
"Please don't make that a thing," he pleads, causing Sketch to laugh again.
"Have fun,Mousey," Sketch says to him.
"Oh, fuck," Mouse sighs. "Let's go."
Rivet links arms with me and we follow Emma and Mouse to the clubhouse. The nerves are kicking in.
"Don't worry. He won't be able to take his eyes off you," Rivet whispers to me. I hope I'll get a chance to talk to him.
15
Buster
Once the clubhousefills up more, Lolita stops walking around collecting drink orders. Now she's behind the bar with Tink. After Hollywood and Sketch finished their game, I took Hollywood's challenge and Sketch left to go off on his own. We're finishing our game and I'm not doing too great. I'm finding it hard to concentrate. Hollywood sunk his last ball and is now lining up his shot for the 8 ball when a couple of the cut bunnies walk up. He takes his shot and sinks the 8 ball.
"Hey fellas," London, a newer cut bunny, says as she comes to stand by Rascal and Hollywood.
"I need another beer," I say to the guys, ignoring London.
"I'll come with you," Hollywood replies. We walk over to the bar leaving Rascal with London and Ruby. Tink likes to split the bar into sections depending on how many are working. Tonight, it's her and Lolita. The bar is pretty crowded but we find a spot toward the end of the bar and it happens to be Lolita's side. Hollywood probably chose this side on purpose.
As patched members, we usually get served before anyone else, no matter how busy it is. Lolita sees us before she’s about to take someone's order and comes to us first.
"Hey, guys. What can I get ya?"
"Another beer for me, please," I tell her.
"I'll take a shot of Fireball and another beer, please, Doll," Hollywood says. Her cheeks turn pink before she turns around to go get our drinks. "Do you think Cali is going to actually come tonight?"
"She supposed to. I guess we'll see," I reply. I glance around the room, my eyes go right to Cali. She has her back facing me and she’s talking with Mouse and Buzz. Jealousy turns inside me.
"Here you go." Lolita sets our drinks in front of us as Diesel walks over to us.
"Brothers! How's it fucking going?" Diesel is talking to us but staring at Lolita with a smirk. Two brothers potentially into the same girl? This could be interesting.
"Thanks, Lo." I grab my beer. "I gotta go. I'll see y'all around."
"Go get her, tiger." Hollywood slaps me on my back. I shake my head, moving around the room. Cali has her hair in a messy bun. I can’t help but want to mark up her perfect skin. I walk over to the couch where Kicks and Clutch are talking. From here, I get a side view of her. She’s been dressing a lot sexier than I’m used to.
"What's up," Kicks asks. "Enjoying the view?"
"What?" I turn to him and he's glancing in the same direction I was. "Ha, yeah."
"What are you waiting for? Go talk to her," he tells me. It's like she could sense we were talking about her because at that moment, she turns and locks eyes with me, smiling. My heart skips a beat seeing her gorgeous smile. Mouse nudges her shoulder and she slowly walks toward me. My grin grows into a full-blown smile once she's standing in front of me.
"Hi," she says innocently.
