Page 17 of Sticks and Stones (Shadow Valley U)
“What’s that noise?” Archer’s entire body takes up the hallway because of the width of his shoulders.
Taylor follows closely behind.
“I don’t know,” I answer.
They both stumble past me toward the noise. I decide to go, too, having a terrible feeling that it has to do with Stone, since he isn’t in his bed.
The farther I go down the stairs, the more my heart beats. It’s a familiar sound. It sounds like vibrating, and I’m suddenly panicking because Stone put his fucking hands on my stuff last night, and that’s something I truly do not like.
“Oh, fuck.” Archer is standing in the threshold of the kitchen.
All I can see is his stupid, large shoulders shaking with laughter.
Taylor doesn’t smother his laughter with his teammate. He howls and throws his head back to the ceiling before looking over his shoulder with devilish eyes that show each and every dirty thought going through his head.
I’m going to fucking kill Stone.
“What is going on?”
I snap out of my plans of choking Stone in his sleep and turn at Evan’s voice. He is the very last person I want to see my bright-pink vibrator that I use more often than not, even when I was still in a relationship with Brad.
Shit, shit, shit.
Evan’s brows furrow. “Wren? What’s wrong? Why are you pale?” He pauses. “And what the fuck is that godforsaken noise?”
I whoosh around and squeeze past Taylor, who isstilllaughing, and try diving toward the table before my foot catches on the cabinet, and I fly to my knees. The hard tile breaks my fall before Archer’s hands are around my waist. He hauls me up, but I claw to get away so I can grab onto my vibrator—which isstillgaining all the attention.
Oh my God.
The moment I turn it off, I let out a breath, but when I meet Evan’s disgusted look, I wish I would stop breathing altogether.
“Is that…” His face scrunches after he looks from it to me. “Fuck!” His hands slap over his eyes, and now there is more laughter than before.
Everyoneis awake.
Everyoneis staring at me holding my pink vibrator in the middle of the kitchen.
The only person missing is Stone.
“Oh, shut up!” I place my hands on my hips, which looks ridiculous because I’m holding a pink, dick-shaped vibrator that just so happens to have an extra part on it formorestimulation. “You act like you’ve never seen a vibrator before!”
“I have!” Evan turns around and bends over at the waist. He’s dry heaving. “I’ve just never seenyouwith one! Fuck.”
“Bro.” Grant shrugs. “She’s not even your real sister. You can’t honestly say that you’ve never thought about having sex with her.” He glances at me.
Does he think I’m deaf and can’t hear him?
“I mean, look at her.”
“I’m right here!” I shout. I sigh agitatedly while planning Stone’s death. “Ugh, move.”
I’m ready to plow through my roommates, but Taylor clears his throat.
“Don’t forget your note.”
Fury backs my every move. “What?”
A yellow sticky note is dangling from the ends of his fingers, and I snatch it quickly, reading over the contents.