The Upside of Being Let Down (new adult romance - 1) Read Online Free PDF

face the apartment door again. I thought about knocking
but had a better idea.
    Call her.
    I smiled.
    I could drive her nuts.
    Sure, she could put the phone on
silent and ignore me once and for all but it was worth a shot. I could always
switch to texting and leave her a nice piece of my mind to read again and
again.
    I touched my pocket, looking for my
phone.
    I felt my key... I felt the flash
drive... no phone.
    Then I remembered I had my cell
phone in my back pocket. I touched my butt and felt nothing.
    Absolutely nothing.
    The car.
    I hurried through the door, down
the steps, and outside. I opened my car and started searching. The seat, the
console, the small space between the seat and the console. The space between
the door and seat.
    Nothing.
    I moved the seat forward. I moved
the seat back. I even looked on the ground.
    My cell phone was nowhere to be
found.
    And just like that I had lost
college, my apartment, and my cell phone.
    Happy fucking night.

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    Bryan pulled into the parking spot
and gripped the steering wheel. He looked back at Jeff passed out in the
backseat. He looked at Gary checking sports scores and fantasy stats on his
cell phone. He felt like throwing the cell phone out the window.
    He touched his left leg and felt
the outline of the cell phone.
    It wasn ’ t Bryan ’ s
cell phone.
    It was AJ ’ s.
    The cell phone he picked up off the
floor at the club.
    He checked it - he had to -
and after scrolling through the first set of messages, it was confirmed to be
AJ ’ s cell phone. Someone
named Angela had text her yesterday and used her name.
    All Bryan needed to do now was get
rid of Gary and Jeff and then find a way to figure out where AJ lived. There
had to be something in the phone, right? Or not. Or maybe once AJ realized her
phone was missing she ’ d
call it. Bryan could answer. Mess around with her. Flirt with her. Tease her.
    “ What
are you doing, man? ” Bryan
asked as his knuckles turned white from gripping the steering wheel.
    “ Checking, ” Gary said in a robotic voice.
    “ Check
inside. Get Jeff out of here. ”
    “ What? ” Gary asked. “ You want me... ” Gary slipped his phone into his
pocket and looked back at Jeff. “ I
can ’ t carry him. He ’ s dead weight. ”
    “ Come
on, you can carry Jeff. ”
    “ No,
I can ’ t. ”
    Bryan gripped the wheel tighter and
he looked at his right arm. He saw his muscles flexing and he gritted his
teeth. He had two choices. He could argue with Gary for ten minutes, ultimately
win, and then get to watch Gary struggle and literally drag jeff into the
apartment. The second option was to just to shut his goddamn mouth and carry
Jeff by himself.
    As Bryan opened the door to his car
he told himself that giving AJ her cell phone better be worth it. Then again,
knowing the way she acted at the club, she ’ d
take the phone, slap Bryan in the face, and leave.
    Even if that happened, it would be
worth it.
    Something about AJ just clicked for
Bryan.
    And surprisingly, Bryan ’ s thoughts were far away from
the bedroom.
    Bryan opened the backdoor and
pulled at Jeff ’ s legs. Jeff
stirred and let out a slur of curses.
    “ Shut
up, ” Bryan said.
    He let Jeff ’ s legs hang limp almost to the ground and then he
grabbed his wrists and pulled, sitting Jeff up. Jeff sat up and let out a
gurgle and Bryan jumped back just as Jeff ’ s
stomach let go.
    “ Fuck! ” Bryan cried out.
    Jeff slumped forward and to the
ground, throwing up the entire time. When he stopped, he was covered in vomit.
He was on his side, on the ground against the fade yellow line of the parking
spot.
    Bryan leaned against his car and
shook his head. He could almost feel his leg burning, desperate to get the hell
out of the parking lot to find AJ.
    “ Gary,
let ’ s go, ” he cried out.
    Gary emerged from the car and
walked around. When he saw the vomit on the ground he jumped back and touched
he throat like he had just inhaled poisonous gas.
    “ What
the