Total pages in book: 71
Estimated words: 66099 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 330(@200wpm)___ 264(@250wpm)___ 220(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 66099 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 330(@200wpm)___ 264(@250wpm)___ 220(@300wpm)
Maybe Sian is right, maybe I do try to run everyone around me. “Well shit!” All I need is for him to let it slip to Tammy that I instigated this shit and I’ll have to listen to her bitch until my damn ears are ready to bleed.
2
Shane
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As I rode back home from Jace’s place I thought about everything he’d just said. I honestly never thought about getting married this young, it’s just not something I was too worried about at this time in my life.
Even though Jace had got engaged, and I suspect Track may have beaten him to it if the whispers about the ring on his girl’s finger that I picked up in the lot after school were true.
Even with all that happening around me, it never once entered my mind to follow suit. I know he didn’t just bring that shit up because of some law though, the fuck he cares. So this had to have something to do with Mandy.
Always fucking her. She’s like a canker sore that won’t go away. I’ve never despised anyone as much as I do her, and I still don’t know why Jace had ditched her ass. I just know she won’t quit fucking with him and Sian and that’s enough for me to want to put a hurting on her.
Not that I think I’d get the chance. I don’t how this idiot has lived in this town for this long and not know that Jace’s dad would bury her ass in his backyard if she fucks with his son. Everybody knows that shit.
I know what people think when they hear about Hollywood. They think everyone here is either hopped up on drugs, dealing in some under the table shady shit, or just plain fucking weirdoes’.
They’d never believe that there are parents in these hills like the Saunders, who stayed on top of everything when it came to their kid. My mom might not be the best, but that doesn’t stop me from knowing what good parents are.
And the fact that Jace has shared his with me for damn near my whole life is only one of the reasons I won’t let this she-wolf do anything to him and his girl. She’d have to get through me first. Dumb ass!
Wait a minute. I’m already outside, and it’s already dark out. It would be so easy to drive by her place. I already know about the secret entrance from Liz. It would be so easy… I gave it some serious thought as I slowed down.
Jace wouldn’t have to do it if I took care of it. But how would I do it? I hadn’t come prepared. Damn, I’m actually sitting in my car contemplating murder. My phone rang and scared the shit outta me.
“What’s up Track?” Busy night, first Jace, now him.
“Go home.”
“Huh?”
‘That turn you’re about to make, don’t make it.”
He hung up the phone. What the hell? How did he know….? Tracker, I forgot all about the one he’d mentioned earlier. I haven’t the first clue how to find the shit. I’d already looked under the car, inside the car.
Since I didn’t see shit I just assumed he’d removed it. And what the fuck is he doing messing with that stuff anyway? No wonder he’s always being packed off to that place. Kid gets into more shit…
Oh well, the decision has been made for me. No sense in going there now even if I did have a plan, which I don’t. I switched gears again back to the bombshell Jace had dropped tonight.
If he thought Mandy would use this against me, or worse yet Tammy, he must have his reasons. There’s no point in trying to skirt the issue or get around it. Once Jace sinks his teeth into something, that’s it.
I know he’s not worried about the law thing as much as he is the effect it would have on Sian if things went wrong. But none of that is reason enough to get married.
Then it came to me. I'll just ask her. I know my level-headed girl would say no. She'd probably give me one of her grownup looks and roll her eyes at me. But no way is she going to want to get married so young.
And why does that upset you? Didn’t you just get through saying it was too soon? Yeah, but I at least want her to want to. Get a grip dude!
* * *
JARED
* * *
I’d cornered Jace after dinner long enough to learn that he’d asked Red’s dad for permission for her to go to the island with us. Now I just need to take it one step farther. No doubt he’s still going to worry about his daughter going off in a co-ed group.
I’m sure he knows we’re dating but does he know I plan on marrying his daughter? Or that I’d made a solemn vow not to touch her, at least not yet? I think he might be more interested in the last part.