Page 37 of Fragile Heart

“Why not?”

She eyes me suspiciously. “If she didn’t tell you, I’m certainly not going to.”

“What? Holly, you know Quinn and I are friends.”

“Then why didn’t she tell you she was off today?” She cocks an eyebrow. Her tone is really starting to piss me off.

“Holly, where is she?” I try one more time.

“It’s not my business to tell you. Are you going to order something or not?”

I sigh in frustration. I order my food to go, accepting the fact that I’m not going to get anything out of Holly. As soon as Holly leaves my table to put my order in, I text Quinn.

Hudson: Why aren’t you working tonight?

By the time my food is delivered in a brown paper bag, I still don’t have a response from Quinn. I decide to make the short walk to her apartment to see if she’s there.

After several rounds of knocking on her door, I concede. She’s obviously not here, and I can see her nosy neighbor peeking out of her window to stare at me.

I don’t know where else Quinn could be. In the weeks I’ve known her, she’s never gone anywhere besides work and home unless Holly or I was with her. And neither one of us is with her right now.

I slide down her door and park myself on her pineapple doormat to wait. I’m not leaving until I see her. I need to make sure we’re still okay after yesterday. Vaughn said Quinn looked upset when she left, and it’s been eating at me.

I’ve never cared when people got mad at me. That was their problem, not mine. But Quinn is different. I don’t know what it is about her. Why I get excited every time I’m about to see her. Or why my heart speeds up when she smiles at me. It’s killing me that she isn’t talking to me. Ineedto know if she’s upset because I can’t stand the thought that I may have messed up the one good thing in my life right now. That I made this woman, who has the biggest fucking heart in the world, upset. All because I’m a fucking idiot. Whatever is happening here with me—with us—I know I need to figure it out before I drive myself crazy.

Hudson: Where are you?

I take my sandwich out of the bag and wait.

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