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Do you hate
me?” She gave me her puppy dog eyes again.
    I sighed. She shouldn’t
have been the one making me feel guilty, but it wasn’t worth a
fight. “Hate, no. I just wish I’d stayed back at school. I can’t go
back and change that though. At least I had fun this morning.”
    “And you can have fun
tonight.”
    Shaun and Chad walked
inside the apartment, and I saw Reyna and Chad exchange a look.
    “Don’t worry. I won’t
sit at home tonight.” I grabbed my cat costume from my bag and
walked down the hall to the bathroom.
    “What the hell, man?”
Through the door I heard Chad. “Please don’t screw this up for
me.”
    “I’m not doing
anything.”
    I rolled my eyes at
Shaun’s denial.
    “You groped the girl,
and from her reaction at the restaurant you were going there
again.”
    “She’s into me.” Shaun
was delusional. Completely and utterly delusional.
    “No, she’s not. My
girlfriend’s friends aren’t yours for the taking. If she wanted to
mess around then great, but she’s made her feelings abundantly
clear.”
    Girlfriend? That was
fast.
    “I’ll back off.”
    “Stay away from her.
They leave tomorrow. Think you can keep it in your pants for a few
more hours?”
    “Does Reyna have any
other friends she can introduce me to?”
    I was about ready to
burst through the door and let him have it for that comment, but
evidently Reyna was listening in too.
    “Not a chance, and you
owe Daisy about a million apologies. You were rude and gross to my
best friend, and that’s not okay.”
    I heard the telltale
sound of a slap. Wow. Reyna’s path to forgiveness had just been
shortened considerably. I put on my cat ears and drew on my whisker
s before walking out of the bathroom.
    “I’m sorry,” Shaun said
as unconvincingly as possible as he still touched his cheek.
    “Great.” I started
toward my bag so I could drop off my clothes, but Duncan walked out
of his room at the exact moment, and we collided.
    He put his hands on
both of my arms to sturdy me. “Hi.”
    “Hi.”
    He still didn’t let go.
“Nice costume.” His eyes had a faint ring of greenish-yellow color
in them that seemed out of place in his brown eyes. I wondered if
he was wearing contacts.
    “Oh. Thanks.” I looked
at his all black ensemble consisting of a dress shirt and slacks. I
guess that was as far as he went to dress up on Halloween. Given a
choice, I would have skipped my costume all together.
    “Do you have plans
tonight?”
    “None I particularly
want to be part of.” There wasn’t a chance I was spending any more
time with Shaun.
    “She has plans.” Chad
walked over. “We’re all going out.”
    “Come out with me
instead.” Duncan looked at me seriously. “I’m going downtown to
meet some friends.”
    “Daisy’s not hanging
out with you.” Shaun pulled on my arm. Duncan didn’t let go.
    Duncan narrowed his
eyes. “Why would you have any say on what she does?”
    “She’s coming out with
us.” Reyna said from somewhere behind me.
    “Aren’t you guys going
downtown too?” I turned to look at Chad.
    Chad nodded. “Yes, and
I promise you’ll have a better time with us.”
    I turned, offsetting
one of Duncan’s hands. “Why don’t we all hang out together? Then
you can meet up with your friends, Duncan.” That seemed like a nice
compromise.
    “No way.” Chad, Shaun,
and Duncan all said it at the same time. Why were they being so
strange?
    “How about we just do a
girl’s night then, Reyna?” I joked.
    She gave me a panicked
look which told me everything. She would have agreed to it if she
thought I really wanted to. That’s all I needed to see.
    I smiled lightly. “I
really want to hang out with Reyna tonight, Duncan. But I
appreciate the offer.”
    “I have a better idea.
Are you ready to go, now?” Duncan asked.
    “Yeah, why?”
    “Why don’t we go hang
out with my friends first? We can meet up with these guys later.”
He gestured to Reyna and Chad.
    I thought about it.