Game Night Read Free Page B

just a little tired and maybe Andi’s right
about all the stress.” She picked up a breadstick and took a bite.
She hoped it looked legit. She wasn’t hungry at all.
    Liz glared at her best friend knowing
that something was on her mind. She just didn’t know what.
Boyfriend trouble? Dad giving you shit at home? You have your
fucking period?
    “Ok, well we’re here if you wanna
talk,” Liz told her.
    Just come out and say it
Meg. Don’t be a shithead. They think something is wrong you. Well,
there is but not really. Jesus Megan, just ask them if they want
to…….
    “We need to do something,” Liz suddenly
said breaking Megan’s train of thought. “We gotta do something big
and like soon because there isn’t much time left ladies. I may have
only a few weeks after graduation and then its fucking factory city
for me.”
    “Liz,” Andi started, “Why don’t you
tell you dad to stick it and that you’re not going to spend the
rest of your life in some boring, hot factory!”
    “Because Andi shmandy he’s
my old man and he keeps a roof over my head. It is really good money to.”
    “Sounds to me that you’re only telling
yourself that just to psych yourself out,” Andi told
her.
    Megan couldn’t help but agree but only
internally. She took a sip from her cup and gazed down at the table
without saying anything.
    “What do you think Meg?” Liz asked her
in a serious tone like her whole life depended on her best friend’s
opinion of her future.
    Megan was silent for a moment and just
looked at her not knowing really what to say and then the light
bulb went on above her head.
    “You know,” she started to
say and then pounded the table with her fist. A smile formed on her
face. “I think you’re right Lizzy. We do need to do something
big.” Which leads me to this thing I’ve
been wanting to do for a while now but am too afraid to ask you
guy’s if you wanna do it because I don’t want you to think I’m
weird or a freak or some crazy ass……
    “Have any ideas?” Liz asked.
    Megan took a breath and slid the palms
of her hands smoothly across the white and red checkerboard table
cloth.
    “Yes I do,” she said with a big,
confident smile.
     
     
    “ Holy shit Meg!” Liz said
way to loudly roughly five minutes later, making a group of kids
across the restaurant look up at them.
    Megan shook her head and covered her
forehead with her shaking hands because she was nervous as hell
talking about the thing that’s been running through her mind every
night before she goes to sleep.
    “I knew you wouldn’t go for it. I’m
sorry. I shouldn’t have said anything.” Her dark, auburn hair fell
over her hands.
    “Now hang on second,” Liz
started to say. “It’s ok, really it is babe. Don’t jump to
conclusions just yet. I mean we haven’t said yes or no.
    “ I’m messed up aren’t I? I
have issues right?” Megan said almost in tears.
    Liz blurted out a half laugh, half
snort. “NO you don’t. We’ve all thought about stuff like that. You
know we have.”
    All three girls looked at
each other knowing damn well what they were all thinking. Does it feel good. Can I have a turn? Please,
please, please!
    “Look. Let’s just think about this for
a minute,” Liz said.
    She looked around at all the people in
the restaurant and the group of kids that had just walked
in.
    “Tell ya what. Let’a get outta here.
It’s too crowded in here for this.” She began scooting out of the
booth. Megan felt a rush of relief not only for finally leaving the
pizza shack but for the way Liz was handling what she told her. She
saw that excited look in Liz’s eye that she sometimes
gets.
    “Where are we going,” Andi
asked.
     
     
    “ Do you remember playing
here all the time when we were kids?” Liz lightly skidded her shoes
along the grass under her swing at the playground they use to play
at when they were just little shits. Megan certainly did remember
and also her mother telling her to go play in