“Seriously? That’s my least favorite one of the bunch.” Macy makes grabby hands for it, but I move back so it’s out of her reach. “I mean, my dad picked it out for me.”
“Well, I like it. And the fact that it doesn’t scream that I want to get naked with him.”
“Says the girl who got up to all kinds of naughty stuff in his room today,” she says with a smirk.
“I never should have told you that! And it’s not like we got naked. We just made out.” I take off my uniform and slip into the dress. “The dress is just to make a point.”
“And what point is that exactly?” She gets off the bed and starts tugging on the skirt to help it fall into place over my ridiculous curves. “Oh, right. The point that you lust after Jaxon’s sexy, sexy body.”
“I thought you didn’t like Jaxon.” I shoot her a smug look. “I mean, aren’t you the one who told me how dangerous he was and that I should stay far, far away from him?”
“And look how well you listened.” She crosses to her dresser and starts opening and closing the myriad assortment of little doors on the jewelry box she has perched on the top of it. “Besides, just because he scares me doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate how sexy he is for you,” she says in a deliberately deep and funny voice. “Plus that gorgeous bite mark he left on you? Swoon.”
Swoon is right. Every time I see it in the mirror, it makes me want to melt. “Everything about Jaxon is gorgeous to me,” I tell her as she crosses back over to me, a pair of dangling gold earrings in her hand.
“Try not to salivate on the dress,” she answers dryly. “Drool is so last decade.”
I stick my tongue out at her, but she just crosses her eyes at me. “Save that for Jaxon.”
“Oh my God! Are you trying to embarrass me to death before I ever make it to his room?”
“What’s there to be embarrassed about? You’re head over heels for him; he’s head over heels for you… I say go for it.”
“Can you please just give me the earrings so I can get out of here?” I demand, holding my hand out for them.
“Stay still and I’ll put them in for you. The clasp is kind of tricky.” She leans over and slides one of the earrings into my earhole. “Wow, you smell good enough to eat… Oops. I mean drink.”
“I swear to God, Macy…”
“Okay, okay, I’ll stop messing with you.” She moves to put the second earring in. “It’s just so fun to watch you blush.”
“Yeah. So much fun,” I deadpan as she struggles to fasten the second earring.
Finally the clasp slides into place, and she steps back. “How do you stay so still?” she asks as she straightens out the skirt of my dress. “I swear you’re a statue. It barely felt like you were breathing while I was putting that earring in.”
“Terror that you were going to slip and rip the thing out of my ear. Or poke me in the eye,” I tease.
She makes a face at me as I slip my feet into the one nice pair of heels I brought with me. They’re nude and strappy, so they go with almost anything. Including, thankfully, this yellow dress.
“So how do I look?” I do a little twirl in the center of the room.
“Like you’re going to need another blood transfusion by the time Jaxon’s done with you.”
“Macy! Stop it!”
She just grins as I make my way to the door. “Seriously, you look amazing. You’re going to knock that vamp’s socks off.”
This time when I blush, it’s from excitement. “You really think so?”
“I know so.” She motions for me to twirl around again, so I do. “Also, I’ll bet you ten bucks that dress is going to be missing buttons when you finally make it back here.”
“Okay, that’s it!” I give her a mock glare as I head for the door.
But she just grins and crosses her eyes at me, all of which makes me laugh ridiculously hard. And calms me down, which I know is exactly what she was intending.
It’s so strange. Before this week, I hadn’t seen Macy in ten years. We were virtual strangers. And now I can’t imagine going back to life without her.
“Don’t wait up,” I say as I make my way out the door.
“Yeah, like that’s going to happen,” she tells me with a snort. “FYI, I’m going to need all the details. And I mean all. So you should probably pay really close attention to everything that happens so you get them right.”