Vodka Kisses

0210- Touched By An 'A'-ngel

College fair. So fun.

Do I just ditch? I should but I have no clue where I want to go to college yet or what I want to do.

There's a knock on my bedroom door and I sigh and roll onto my front. I don't want to get up yet.

"G are you ready?" Mom asks, walking into my room.

No.

"Obviously not." I say sitting up.

"You're going to be late." She tells me.

"It's fine it's only the college fair." I tell her.

"Oh are you going?" She asks.

"I might for a few hours." I tell her and she nods.

"Okay well I've got some errands to run so have fun. There's coffee downstairs and some money on the counter in case you need anything." She kisses my forehead and is rushing out the door.

I take a slow morning to get ready and have a shower. I do my makeup and get dressed before heading to school.

Once I get to school it's packed with colleges and and students are everywhere. Yuck. Is it too late to ditch?

"Hey stranger, you going college shopping?" Noel asks.

Walk away.

"Yep." I close my locker and head straight to the cafeteria to walk around and look at colleges.

****
"Do you want me to come pick you up?" Logan asks as I sip on my coffee.

"No, I drove here. I've got my car. We can meet up for lunch if you want. At Hollis? Seeing as you have an afternoon lesson and training." I tell him.

"Yeah sure. I'll head there now. See you soon." He says and ends the call.

"You ditching?" Aria comes up beside me. Jesus Christ. Talk about close call.

"Yeah, why?" I ask him.

"I'm gonna go to the grille and grab some food." She shrugs.

"You wanna ride? I'm gonna go meet up with... a friend." I lie.

She laughs and hooks her arm through mine.

"You can say boyfriend Grace, it won't kill you." She smiles. "And yes, I would love a ride."

We get to my car and I head inside.

"So when are you going to introduce us properly to him?" She asks. Never.

"Um not for a while, I just want to see how it goes first." I tell her and she nods.

"That's fair." She smiles.

After dropping Aria off I head straight to meet Logan.

When I head into the cafe Logan is sat at a table with drinks in front of him. I look around, don't recognise anyone and slip into the booth in front of him.

"Uh uh, get here and let me kiss you first." He says and I just roll my eyes. I don't move I just look down at the menu.

When I look up at him he's no longer in front of me but he's stood beside the booth, leaning over me.

He leans down and kisses me.

When I pull back I turn to the lemonade on the table.

"Is this mine?" I ask and he nods.

"It is." He smiles.

"Thank you." I smile before taking a sip of my lemonade.

"I ordered you a grilled cheese and tomato soup." He says and my chest warms. That's so yummy. It's my favourite, he knows that.

"Thanks." I smile.

"So did you choose a college?" He asks and I shake my head.

"Nope I don't even know what I want to study. I don't know what I want to do." I put my head in my hands.

"My dad wants me to go into business." I tell him and he laughs.

"I'm not surprised. If he had his way he'd take you to business school himself and you'd stay there." He tells me and I just nod. Very true.

"He wants me to go to UPenn to study business. But I don't want to go to UPenn and I don't want to study business." I admit to him.

"You don't have to. It's okay to take your time." He squeezes my hand over the table.

"It's okay. I'll figure it out." I always do.

Once our food comes I eat all my food and then just sink in my chair.

"What times your lesson?" I ask.

"About half an hour." He says and I groan.

"So you've got to leave in a minute?" I ask and he nods.

I go through my bag and pull out my purse to leave a 50 dollar bill on the table.

"I'll pay." Logan says and I shake my head.

"It's fine. Next time." I wink at him.

He kisses my cheek and then helps me out of the booth. We walk out of the cafe together and he walks me to my car.

"I'll call you later." He says opening my car door.

"Okay." I smile.

I climb into the car and wave at him as I drive off.

****
I'm sat on the edge of Hannah's bed as Spencer brings Emily in some tea.

Emily had a massage of A.

"Here. Small sips." Spencer mothers her.

"You know what the worse part is? If I had just looked up during that massage we'd know who A is." Emily says and I nod. That is very annoying.

"What did the hands feel like?" Hannah asks. "Guy or girl?"

"I thought like a girl but now I don't know." Emily admits.

"Do you need to take another shower?" Hannah asks.

"No. I think five is enough." True that's probably a bit excessive.

"I could use one." Spencer says and I turn to her. She's sat next to me.

"I feel gross especially since I found out Ian's videos might've had more than one camera man." She tells us.

"That is gross. Men these days. You just can't trust them." I roll my eyes.

"It's so creepy." Hannah agrees.

"What's even creepier is that one of those guys have a gun and a badge." Spencer says and I shiver.

"And a relationship to Jenna who hates us and hated Ali even more." Emily points out.

"So which one is A?" Hannah asks.

"That's the million dollar question." I sigh.

"Ever since we realised A made Ian's death look like a suicide we've been thinking A and the killer are the same person." Spencer stands and starts to pace.

"What is A is a group of people?" Spencer asks and I nod.

"What if there's more than one A?" I rephrase.

"They're all playing together on the same team." Spencer says.

"In the same club." Emily says.

The doorbell rings meaning Aria is probably here.

"That's probably Aria and my guess is that she probably has something she wants to say to me." Spencer says and I nod. I would.

"If I'm not back in five minutes send a rescue team." Spencer says and I laugh.

The problems with Aria is she's tiny and vicious, she knows exactly where to stick the knife. That's why I won't tell her about Logan. It might seem dramatic saying she'll kill me but she actually will.

Emily grabs her buzzing phone and sighs.

"It's nothing." She says to mine and Hannah's concerned glances.