The pillow fight had ended by the time we got back, apparently transitioning into a water fight. Either that or Dancer was using a hose in an attempt to control the herd of drunken women currently dancing in her backyard.
“Jessica!” Kit yelled as we came back. “You’re here—good news! We’re already getting responses on our pictures!”
Fuck, how many people were they sending them to?
“Reese is going to strangle me,” London said, coming to stand next to me. Her white T-shirt had gone totally transparent, showing off a gorgeous black bra.
A spray of water hit me in the face, then splattered down across my chest.
“You’re welcome!” Dancer shouted, laughing. I shook my head like a dog, trying to get some of the water off. Bad idea, because I still wasn’t totally steady on my feet. What the fuck was in that punch? Dancer and London caught me, one on each arm.
“Thanks,” I managed to say, watching as Dancer aimed her hose again, spraying down another woman I didn’t recognize.
“Why are you hosing everyone down?”
“Damage control,” she said, her words slurring ever so slightly.
“Damage control?”
“Yeah, the girls have been texting pictures of us with the strippers to the men. I got a tip-off—Bam Bam, Horse, and Reese are coming to break it up. I guess once we started groping random naked guys they’d had enough of the bachelorette party.”
“So you’re spraying everyone with water because . . . ?”
“Because guys get off on girls in wet T-shirts,” she said, as if the answer were obvious. What? “There isn’t a man alive who doesn’t secretly pray that when women get together, we have pillow fights followed by wet T-shirt contests. Bam has a thing for mud wrestling, too, but I’m drawing the line here—gotta keep it classy. By the time the guys get here to claim their old ladies, we’ll be ready for them. I already paid off the strippers. If they’re smart, they’ve already left.”
Wow. Just . . . wow.
“That’s impressive,” I admitted. She nodded sagely, accepting my praise as her just due.
“Not my first rodeo, baby girl.”
Jess came up behind me, throwing her arms around me for a big hug.
“You’ll get this old-lady shit figured out, no worries,” she said, ruffling my wet hair.
Wait. I wasn’t an old lady.
I didn’t want to be old. Or a lady.
Pushing Jess off, I turned to Dancer, but she’d already gone off to spray someone else. London was missing, too. Marie was nearby, though.
“Hey,” I said, lurching toward her.
“Hey,” she said back, grinning like an idiot. Her eyes were big and sparkly and her cheeks were all flushed. At least I wasn’t the only drunk one here.
“Am I an old lady now?” I asked. She blinked.
“What?”
“Painter asked me to be his girlfriend, so does that make me an old lady?”
Marie’s eyes widened. “Painter seriously asked you that? Holy shit. Hey, Soph—Painter asked Mel to be his girlfriend!”
Ruger’s old lady, Sophie, turned toward us. Her long hair was plastered against her head and back. Totally soaked. She looked between me and Marie, obviously surprised.
“Really?” Sophie asked. “Wow, never saw that coming. Like, he used the word ‘boyfriend’? That’s hysterical.”
I frowned, because it wasn’t funny at all, let alone hysterical. No wonder Painter was always heading out of town on club business—I would, too, if I had to put up with this shit.
“He’s a really nice guy, you know,” I said, glaring at them. They looked at each other and burst out laughing. “Hey!”