It’s Complicated by Camilla Isley EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Camilla Isley
- Language: English
- Genre: Women’s Friendship Fiction
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LORI
The moment I flip through my mail and find an ivory wedding invitation,
my heart cracks in my chest and my mind snaps back to a spring night of
fourteen years ago when I could’ve stopped it all and didn’t.
My two best friends and I were at a home party, junior year of college at
Urbana University. I can’t remember much about that night, whose house it
was, what day, or even what I was wearing. But I do remember the drinking
game we were playing: Never Have I Ever. At least Aiden and I and his
then girlfriend were playing. Jace was somewhere probably being hit on by
all the single women at the party.
I’d already taken quite a few shots. One for losing my virginity. One for
breaking a bone in the fifth grade. One for googling myself—I know
embarrassing. One for crashing a party—we were probably crashing that
party as well. One for reading an entire book in a day—duh, how are there
people who’ve never done that? And one for giving out a fake number—not
cool, I know, but I’m not big on confrontations, even for something as small
as telling a stranger I don’t want to give them my number, so I always
choose the path of least anxiety.
I’d just downed the shot for the fake number, when it became Tracy
Dillon’s turn to speak.
A textbook mean girl in our year, she locked eyes with me as she spoke,
“Never have I ever…” she paused for suspense, studying me with a
malicious glint. “…Been in love with my best friend!”
A dare.
And it must’ve been the six shots I already had in me that made me
accept the challenge. Because next, I looked Aiden straight in the eyes, not
even caring that his girlfriend was sitting right next to him, and downed the
seventh shot of the night.
I drank.
He didn’t.
I don’t know why my mind flies back to that night of so many years ago
as I trace a finger over the expensive cotton fiber paper of the envelope.
Maybe because my subconscious knows better than I do that something
could’ve changed that night. Or maybe it’s just the usual wishful thinking
on my part. I can still remember the dumbstruck expression on Aiden’s face
as I downed the shot. And the closed set of his jaws as he didn’t touch his.
Or the way he frowned as strong arms hooked under my armpits and
scooped me up from the floor. Next, I was in Jace’s arms, and he was
carrying me away from the game.
“You’ve had enough to drink for tonight, Lola,” my other best friend
said, using the nickname he always called me. “I’m taking you home.”
“But I was having fun,” I protested.
“Trust me, you’re going to thank me tomorrow.”
Too drunk to object, I waved at Aiden over Jace’s shoulder as we left
whoever’s house we were at. I don’t remember how we got to my dorm. I
probably fell asleep in Jace’s arms on the way. But the morning after is
another one of those moments that will remain forever etched in my
memory.
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