Besides, no girl was her and I couldn’t imagine enjoying the act with anyone else.
I rolled down my window, letting in the night breeze. The weather was perfect and I imagined what I’d be doing with Gianna right now. Probably curled up on the couch together watching a movie until I could get her clothes off. I’d taste her first, working her up until she was squirming. Then I’d enjoy being inside her, relishing her moans in my ear until I made her scream.
The passenger door opened, jerking me out of my daydream. Hailey plopped into the seat. “I can’t believe I had to stay sober for hours at a party. That party rocked, too!”
“He might not have fucked a drunk girl,” I told her. “So, did he go for you?”
She waved a hand down her body. “Did you doubt me?”
I couldn’t believe it. That idiot had cheated on Gianna? Insane of him. “Are you lying?”
Hailey sniffed, her lips pouting. “You owe me a drunk night of fun.”
“Tell me.”
“At least one guy wants to fuck me over that prissy bitch.”
“Hailey, details!”
“Start driving, loverboy. I’m hungry and I want Chinese food.”
I complied, eager to hear the good news. I didn’t know where I’d find Chinese food this late except for downtown. It’d take at least thirty minutes to get there, giving Hailey time to fill me in. I don’t think I’d actually believed Gage would be so stupid and needed to hear the dirty details.
“Where’d it happen?” I asked. “And you better not be making it up.”
“I don’t know why I’m friends with you, Caleb.”
We weren’t friends. Did she think I’d ask a real friend to do this? I was pretty sure we hated each other at this point. She definitely wouldn’t be invited to my wedding.
“We did it in a bathroom while he was taking a break.”
“Seriously? Classy guy.”
She huffed. “Like you’ve never banged a chick in a bathroom at a party. I remember one time-”
I interrupted her, “I want to hear about this time.”
“It was good,” Hailey bragged. “Lucky Gianna has been enjoying his thick,”
“Shut up, Hailey!”
She gave me an innocent look. “I thought you wanted details?”
“All that matters is that it happened. I may need you to tell Gianna to her face.”
Hailey smirked. “She won’t believe you? I would enjoy telling her one of her boyfriends fucked me.”
“I don’t plan on telling her myself. I’m going to confront Gage and make him break up with her.”
“And you’ll be there to pick up the pieces? How noble of you.” Her snide remarks wouldn’t bother me.
All that mattered was my endgame. Gianna mine forever.
I took Hailey to a Panda Express open late on the weekends. She ordered a ton of food, making me smile at knowing how she’d worked up her appetite. I leisurely enjoyed my orange chicken, content in knowing I’d messed everything up for Gage.
That douchbag had backstabbed me by stealing my girl. It was simply karma and careful planning that he’d lose her to me.
I decided Gianna and I would need time away to be alone after we got back together, maybe a camping trip. Until money came in from selling my paintings, I couldn’t afford anything more extravagant. After we graduated, I’d take her someplace exotic where she’d wear nothing but a bikini all day long. When I allowed her to wear anything at all.
“Give me my money,” Hailey demanded with her hand outstretched after she’d finished eating.
I pulled the bills from my wallet, slapping them onto her greedy palm. “You did good.”
“I’m always good,” she said suggestively. “You seemed to have forgotten.”
“If it wasn’t memorable, it’s hardly my fault.”
“Jerk,” she muttered, stuffing her earnings into her bag.
Fifteen minutes later I dropped her off at home, thinking it’d be the last I saw of her if I could help it. Hopefully I wouldn’t need her assistance in convincing Gianna that Gage was a cheater.
I waited an hour to call Gage. He should be on his way home from the party by now. He answered, the sound of him driving coming through my phone.
“Yeah?”
“It’s Caleb,” I told him.
“What do you want?”
“A meet.”
“What the hell do you mean, a meet?”
“I need to have a talk with you. Where can we meet?”
Gage chuckled obnoxiously, the sound grating on my ears. “You think I’m dumb, man? Like I’m going to fall for that. I’m not making it easy for you to kick my ass again.”