Avoiding Responsibility (Avoiding #2)(109)
"Yeah girl," Amber crowed nudging Bekah's shoulder playfully. "You're the f**king bride. Any guy should feel lucky to give you his boxers."
"Definitely," Maddie agreed.
"Well let's start scoping them out," she said glancing around the room to see what guy would willingly give her their underwear.
Lexi was glad she hadn't been volunteered for this one. After having to endure that phone call, her role in the bachelorette festivities had been greatly reduced. The girls had kept to themselves, sharing inside jokes and old stories that Lexi could never understand, and mostly acting as if she didn't really exist. The whole exchange between the girls kind of felt like a high school and college reunion for them rather than a bachelorette party. In truth, she felt more like a tag along to their adventures than anything. And though it was frustrating on some level to be dismissed so easily, it was also a huge relief. This way she didn't have to try to be included or fake her enthusiasm for a night out with the monsters.
She still wasn't sure about Maddie though. The girl already had two strikes against her: one strike for the phone call and a second strike due to the fact that she had slept with Ramsey. Lexi was kind of curious if there was something more to that story though. Maddie kept giving her strange looks all throughout the night like she knew something that Lexi had no clue about. She wanted to just ask her what her f**king problem was, but as she was trying to keep a low profile that wouldn't have been the easiest thing to do. So the whole thing was discouraging to say the least.
"What about him?" Bekah finally asked pointing out a guy to Maddie and Amber who was standing against the wall. He was pretty gorgeous with longer hair slicked back off his forehead and a rather defined jaw line. He wore a snug fit v-neck t-shirt and tight jeans.
"He's g*y," Amber said almost immediately.
"There's no way. Just look at him," Bekah argued tilting her head to the side.
Amber shook her head. "No for real. He's not straight."
"So he doesn't count," Maddie told her.
"There's nothing in the rules that says g*y guys don't count," Bekah countered still staring at him.
"No, but come on. He has to be straight and sexy. We don't want just any guy's boxers," Amber drawled.
"Fine. Fine," Bekah grumbled gritting her teeth in attempt not to show her anger.
"Well hey once you find him let us know," Amber drawled leaning into Bekah. "We're gonna go dance." Maddie stumbled forward careening around Amber and wrapping her arms around Bekah.
"Come dance with us!" she squealed a giggle escaping her.
"You two go dance. I'll catch up," Bekah said shoving Maddie off of her.
"Ok love ya," Maddie cooed dashing after Amber who had already begun to disappear into the mob of people.
Bekah swiveled around to see who else was in the vicinity. Lexi really wished that she could disappear right then. She hadn't meant to be left alone with her, but she hadn't realized that Kersey had left during the discussion about the list. "Where'd Kersey go?" Bekah asked her taking a step forward and running into a guy standing at her side. She didn't even bother to apologize.
Lexi just shrugged attempting to angle her body away from Bekah so that she would cease conversation. She hadn't really been directly addressed all night. And she didn't want to make polite conversation with Bekah. Lexi was here. She was drunk. She was putting up with them for the evening, but she wouldn't exactly say she was having a good time. And having Bekah talk to her wasn't high on her list of things she needed to do for the night.
"Lexi?" Bekah asked obviously not getting the mental waves of rejection that were pouring off of Lexi.
Not seeing any way to avoid speaking with her Lexi turned her body back to Bekah. "Yeah?"
"Thanks for coming out tonight," she said a smile appearing on her face.
Lexi's danger senses immediately started tingling. She had never been around Bekah when she was drunk, but she didn't think that automatically made her a human being. "Ok," Lexi stated carefully trying to fight the buzz that said to just let it go.
"I mean since Parker is so busy it was great to have someone be able to fill in for her on such short notice," Bekah said. "She just has so much ahead of her. She's really going places."
Lexi's hand clenched the edge of the bar she was holding. She didn't need to hear any of this about Parker. She knew she was going places. She knew she was smart and a brilliant doctor despite being one of the youngest in the profession. She didn't need Bekah to tell her any of this. And the alcohol was just making her feisty.
"So thanks," Bekah said.
"Sure," Lexi forced out turning her attention to the floor to keep from looking at Bekah.
"And hey, I just want you to know that there's no hard feelings about what you told me last year," Bekah said smiling as sweetly as the first time she had met her at the Country Club.
Lexi looked at her as if she had just sprouted wings and had begun to fly. How dare she ever bring last year up to her! Not to mention then claiming she had no hard feelings, as if Lexi hadn't been the one screwed over in the end by the sack of shit, lying, manipulative bitch in front of her. She could clearly remember her rage at first finding out about Bekah's diabolical plan. The anger might have subsided, but she wouldn't exactly claim that there were no hard feelings.