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“Piper!” Bunny said sharply.

“Right.” Piper stopped, her hands folded in front of her as she stared into Bunny’s eyes. “I don’t want to be done after tonight.”

Bunny squinted, clearly confused. She wasn’t understanding and Piper wasn’t explaining well. Piper scoffed at herself, took another walk through the small bus, and stopped again right in front of Bunny.

“I don’t want to be done after tonight.”

“Repeating yourself isn’t going to help me understand what I didn’t understand the first time.” Bunny gave her a skeptical look.

“With Jo.”

“Oh.” Bunny pursed her lips, relaxing her body into the bench even more than before. Her lips curled up, playing at being coy.

Piper was taken aback by that. She figured Bunny would be freaking out, yelling at her, telling her she shouldn’t do it. “Why aren’t you saying anything?”

“What do you want me to say?”

“I don’t know! Something! Anything!” Piper threw her hands up in the air and spun around. Then she stopped short. The small brunette outside the bus caught her attention, the sneaky way she moved, the tenseness in her shoulders.

Bunny said something, but Piper didn’t hear a single thing as she froze in place when the woman turned around at the window, her face catching the light of the streetlamp.

“Oh fuck.” Piper scrambled toward the door to the bus, trying to get the damn thing open. But she couldn’t remember which button or lever to push. She pressed as many randomly as she could, trying to get any of them to respond to her touch.

“Piper!” Bunny snagged her hands and held them tightly. “What the hell—”

“Mandy.”

“Fuck,” Bunny muttered. She didn’t wait a beat as she reached for the lever and wrenched open the door.

Bunny was out of the bus faster than Piper, even with her short legs. She was always the runner. Piper swung out of the door and came to a full stop.

“I thought I told you never to show your face around me again!” Bunny practically yelled. Her chest was puffed up and she was ready for a fight.

Would Piper have to break them up?

Piper waved security over, hoping they’d get there before Bunny took to her own solutions.

“Well,” Mandy drawled, “I’m not here to see you.”

“You’re not here to see anyone.” Bunny responded instantly.

“You don’t know a thing about mine and Jo’s relationship. She invited me here.” Mandy pursed her lips and cocked her head as though she had just played checkmate.

Piper’s heart beat too hard and fast in her chest. Surely Jo wouldn’t have invited her? Surely she would have told Piper?

They were engag—no, they were onlyfakeengaged.

Which meant nothing in the real world of relationships, and it left Piper exactly where she was standing now. Having no clue what she needed to do or say or whether or not she needed to get Mandy out of there or let her in.

Except—Mandy was banned from the show.

“Bullshit.” Piper stepped up to Bunny’s side, no longer caring to wait for the security guards who were taking their sweet time getting to them. “Where’s the ticket she sent you then?”

“Well,” Mandy purred, and Piper knew for sure what she had only hoped earlier. Jo hadn’t invited Mandy. “She doesn’t need to send me a ticket. We’ve been talking, and I know she wants me here.”

“You’re so full of shit,” Bunny barked out with a laugh.

Piper’s shoulders relaxed enough for her to take a full breath. She gasped as though she had been drowning until then. It definitely wasn’t just her wishful thinking.