“Right.”
“Don’t talk that way, okay?” I say, placing my phone aside. “Teague and I, we’re not like other couples. There must be something going on, or he would have called.”
“Do you want to go check on him?” Selena asks. “We could go by his place.”
“I already checked on the way here. He wasn’t there.”
“That’s strange.”
“That’s what I just said, Selena.”
“Did you check with Sebastian?” Selena says. “Or Holden? Daniel?”
“No one knows where he is,” I say. “Sebastian wasn’t picking up.”
“You know,” Selena says. “I think I finally had something with Sebastian.”
Selena is my best friend and she’s been harboring a crush on Sebastian since middle school. Only she never had the guts to tell him, and Sebastian’s not much for hints. He was known to be celibate. The only reason he was still hanging out with the in-crowd was because he was friends with us and also because his family was rich. Honestly, if it wasn’t for us he would have been a total nerd. That was probably the reason he had never really taken any interest in Selena, and never even showed concern when she dated people from our school or otherwise. So, it was a little strange hearing Selena felt one of her ‘connections’ with Sebastian at the party. “Tell me all about it!” I say, excitedly.
“Well,” Selena says. “We danced the whole night! And he was extra sweet, you know? He dropped me home and everything when I got a bit too drunk.”
“You mean when you got a bit too drunk on purpose?”
“Well, if that’s how you want to see it then yeah.”
I grin. “So?” I ask. “Did he kiss you? Did he at least ask you out again?”
“No,” Selena says. “But you know, Sebastian. He would never take advantage of a drunken girl.”
“Even though you got drunk on purpose.”
“Whatever. The point is we clicked. I know it. I can feel it, Mia.”
Selena is still going on when I get a call from Sebastian. “Speak of the devil,” I say, picking up. “Sebastian?”
“Hey,” he says, and I can tell something’s not right.
“Is everything okay?”
“Yeah. Why wouldn’t it be?”
“Well,” I say. “Teague never came home last night. He said he would, so I was waiting for him. I thought he might have gone back to his place but he wasn’t there either.”
“Oh,” Sebastian says. “That’s actually why I called. Teague spent the night at my place.”
“Why?”
“Because he was drunk,” Sebastian says. “And he kind of passed out and I had a few drinks in me as well.”
“Wasn’t he supposed to go to some training routine?”
“We went out for drinks after the routine.”
“Why didn’t he call me himself? He could have just called or texted me last night so I wouldn’t have to worry.”
“He lost his phone.”
“He lost his phone?”