LORI
I could picture it; him and Evie in the mirror, her lip gloss smudged, his hands on her waist. Her whispering something into his neck and laughing when he didn’t pull away.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. I shouldn’t have come.
The door opened, I jerked upright. Jason stepped out first, his shirt was wrinkled. His hair was sticking up in the back. He looked surprised when he saw me.
Then Evie stepped out behind him, rubbing her eye with a tissue.
My mouth went dry.
Jason blinked. “Hey—where’ve you been?”
I didn’t answer him. I couldn’t. My throat locked up and every word I thought of sounded stupid in my head. I just stared at them, Evie with her red, watery eyes and that stupid tissue balled in her hand like a stage prop.
She didn’t even glance at me. Just tossed the tissue toward t
