Chapter Fourteen
Fox
THAT NEXT FRIDAYAfter getting plastered at my surprise birthday party, I didn’t feel like ever drinking again. So when I got a message from Julian saying we were having an impromptu guys’ night out, I instantly wanted to decline. But I knew everyone would ask why if I didn’t show up. I didn’t want to have to answer that, ergo it seemed safer to just go.
There was always so much talk and conversation at these things, no one would notice if I moodily kept to the sidelines and simply existed in the group for a few hours without actually participating in anything.
It wasn’t like I had anything else to do, anyway, except sit at home alone and be miserable.
I’d been too chicken s**t to call Bella all week long. After the drunken booty call text she’d never responded to,
