Page 24 of Switchin' Lanes

“Oh, what’s this?” Minx eyes us with a smirk. “Are you two an item now?”

My eyes go to Tink’s. “I don’t know, are we?”

Her cheeks turn pink. “Yeah, I think we are.”

“Eek! That’s amazing! We need a girls’ night to catch up,” Minx says to Tink. “Next weekend?”

“Get your pops to let me have Friday or Saturday night off and I’ll be there,” Tink tells her.

“Ha! Piece of cake! I’ll let y’all go, wherever you were going. I’m so happy for both of you!” Minx gives Tink a quick hug then hurries inside.

“You wanna take your car and I’ll ride my bike,” I ask Tink.

“Sure,” she says. I walk her to her car, kissing her before she climbs in.

“I’ll be right behind you,” I tell her.

“Ride safe.”

“Always.” I kiss her again.

It’s a quick ride to her house. As much as I love riding, I was ready to get to her house and be alone with her. I park my bike behind her car in the driveway. I climb off and meet her at her door.

“Lo’s car isn’t here so she must be working,” she tells me.

“That means I get you all to myself.” I wrap her in a hug and kiss her neck, making her giggle. We walk to the front door. I kiss her once more as she unlocks the door. She playfully swats at me as she opens the door and walks in.

“You can put your backpack in my room if you’d like,” she tells me. “It’s the third door on the right.”

I walk to her room and open the door. Her room is one hundred percent her. The walls are a dusty rose color. Her bed is full of pink, grays, and white. She has string lights hanging on the wall behind her bed, and on another wall, lights with Polaroid pictures hanging from them. On the wall opposite the pictures, she has a tapestry with her zodiac sign on it. She’s an Aries.

I set my bag by the door and go back to the living room with Tink. She has tears running down her cheeks and a piece of paper in her hand.

She locks eyes with me. “She’s gone. Lolita left.”