𝕞𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕤 𝕚𝕟 𝕓𝕖𝕥𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕟 || 𝚅𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚎 𝙷𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚛

32. "there's nothing going on between us."

Resting my head on Larray's shoulder, I see Ryland approaching. I smile at him until he catches up with Larray and me and Larray notices him too.

"You turn." Larray jokes, moving me to rest on Ryland. I laugh, moving my hug to Ryland as Larray walks away.

"What's up with you?" Ryland chuckles, returning my hug and lightly moving us from side to side. "Heard you verbally assaulting men from the other room.

"Vinnie is cheating on me." I state.

"I really don't think so." Ryland laughs. "And it's not cheating if you guys aren't together."

"We were almost there, maybe, until he kissed Ava yesterday after telling me they were over and Amira walked out of his room in a towel this morning."

"Jesus," Ryland gapes, laughing. I explain the details to him and get his remarks and thoughts on it.

"Are you jealous?" Ryland asks.

"So fucking much." I blatantly admit. Ryland laugh, probably because he expected me to deny it, but it's the truth.

"What are you going to do?"

"Nothing. Wait for the feelings to pass." I say.

"Oh, Lena." Ryland sighs like I'm a lost cause. I might be. "Hey, I'm staying back to clean up. Vinnie is too. You want me to ask him some things?"

"Absoloutely not." I lift my head to look at him. "He'll know it's for me. 100%."

"And so?" Ryland shrugs.

"I'm supposed to be the indifferent one. I don't care. Remember?" I remind him like it should be obvious. Ryland laughs at me and rolls his eyes.

"Ok, Lena."

"Good. Now no more talking about that man."

The rest of the night is Vinnie-free because no one mentions his name to me again and we don't cross paths except the one time he almost does but I pull Gigi's arm in the opposite direction. After the party bus, I don't even get a glance at Ava. It's like she disappears. Better.

It's around three in the morning when the party bus comes back and we have thirty minutes before it leaves. In the thirty minutes left, we make sure we didn't leave anything around the house and we take a trip to the bathroom altogether. We spend at least 20 minutes in there before Dixie reminds us that if there are enough people on the bus, it will leave when it's time.

"I'm sitting close to the stereos this time." Dixie calls hopping onto the bus. Gigi and I get in right after her and Dixie looks upset. We follow her eyes to her view and Ava is already sitting close to the stereos.

"Told you she's bitch." I whisper in Dixie's ear and take her hand, pulling her with me to take our seat. I glance one more time at Ava to make sure she isn't sitting close to Vinnie before I remember he isn't even on the bus.

"Ready to hit the road?" The bus driver climbs onto the bus cheering. He's a chubby white man, probably in his 50s, and with a lot of will to live.

We cheer on too, indicating we are and the man pulls out a remote from his back pocket and presses some buttons. Music starts playing from the stereos and the man informs us the bus will leave in a few minutes and he hops off the bus. I go to pull my phone out of my purse when I notice that it isn't there. My purse. It's gone. Panic floods through me.

"Guys, my purse, I don't have it." I tell the other girls, hoping they might have seen it somewhere.

"Oh my God. It's in the bathroom!" Mia recalls. "You dropped it on the counter when we went to the bathroom."