Celeste
When Jamie and I made our way back downstairs, everyone had gathered in the lounge room with drinks in hand.
Josh was standing at the drinks cabinet, passing glasses to Billy and Lilly as we walked through the doorway.
The moment he spotted me, he smiled.
“Celeste, it’s Christmas. If you want to have a drink with us, I don’t mind. It’s completely up to you.”
“She’s seventeen, for crying out loud!” Lilly snapped.
Jamie and I exchanged a quick glance.
Then came the smallest smile between us.
Our little partners-in-crime look.
Lilly still thought I was seventeen.
So did everyone else.
And if they only knew…
Technically, I was supposed to be twenty-one before I could legally drink here, but Josh had a point.
It was Christmas.
“What have you got?” I asked, dropping onto th
