Inject Me Sweetly / Dusk Until Dawn

:Inject Me Sweetly: Chapter Nineteen

            I smiled wryly at her. “It was kind of a last minute thing. I forgot to mention it.”

            She nodded understandingly. “I guess you forgot to mention it to our boss too, huh?”

            “Aha… Sorry.”

            “It’s fine,” she responded with a laugh. “More money for me. Now… I see you brought a friend?” Her gaze turned to Vincent, who was standing by the door still, looking at us with a bored expression.

            I gestured for him to come toward us. “This is Vincent. Vincent, this is my friend Alli.” I tried to give him a look that said ‘be polite’.

            “Hello,” he greeted smoothly, holding out a slim hand to her. “It’s a pleasure meeting you.”

            Resisting the urge to role my eyes at his Sebastian-like greeting, I watched as Alli gave him the eye of approval. In other words, she thought he’d make a suitable boyfriend. Silently I begged her not to say anything. Usually she didn’t, but sometimes…

            “So did you guys meet in Cali then?” Alli questioned, heading back to the cash register as a customer came up to pay.

            I nodded, following her. “Yeah, my parents are taking him in for a while.”

            She gave him a curious look. “What did you do?”

            “I kidnapped someone.”

            The woman at the register snapped her head around to look at him so fast, I was surprised she didn’t get whiplash. Vincent kept his face dangerously expressionless while I started panicking on the inside. What was he doing? He couldn’t say that!

            Finally Alli laughed, breaking the tension. “Good one. So I’m going to guess that you got really into drugs?”

            “No,” Vincent sniffed.

            My mind raced, trying to find a plausible excuse. What were some common misdemeanors? “Umm, he actually—”

            “I stole a lot of stuff,” he said, cutting me off. “So I was shipped here to correct my ways.”

            Alli looked impressed. “And your parents agreed to this?”

            “Er, yeah.” They really didn’t have a choice.

            “Well, that’s cool. Will you be attending school with us, Vincent?”

            He nodded. “Starting tomorrow.”

            “Leah will be excited,” Alli commented with a smirk. “Have a nice day!” she added as the female customer left, eyeing Vincent suspiciously.

            I immediately understood the innuendo. To my annoyance, it sent a shot of jealousy through me. Vincent was handsome— I wasn’t going to lie. I wasn’t going to be the only one who thought so either. Once he went to school tomorrow and all the girls saw him…

            “Your brother wants vanilla,” Vincent announced, breaking my thoughts. “Hurry up.”

            Rolling my eyes, I went to the register. “I guess we’ll get a pint of vanilla, two pints of chocolate, a pint of mint chocolate chip, and…” I trailed off, waiting for Vincent’s choice. “What do you want, Vincent?”