Chapter 49: Toxic

Luke was ready to leave the parking lot. He watched me have a private convo with his rival and saw Austin get powdered sugar over everyone... this was just not how Luke liked to spend his time. "Churro?" Austin offered. "OK," Luke had enough, "We're leaving, and you'll leave my girl alone." My eyes opened wide. Christopher turned his head to look at me and I looked at him looking at me. I think I almost doubled over. Chris pointed at me, "Does she know that she's your girl? 'Cos I don't think she does." "Yeah, well we haven't had that discussion yet." And we didn't. With Austin and Chad around, there couldn't be any deep discussions. With me still reeling from the last incident – Jake's kiss, Luke's comments, the wasp – I was not in a good space to articulate rational thoughts. The music in the car park was turned up. The crew smoking weed got rowdier. "Millie," Luke sai