I ask Lola where the bathroom is located. She tells me straight back, and to the right. Christian gives me a gentle peck on the lips, tells me not to be long, and I meander away.
Even though I’ve followed Lola’s instructions, I open the door, to what is not the bathroom, and instead find Clark and Chopper, and…Bill, I think, except now he has long hair, and Celeste’s new-old boyfriend snorting coke off a low table, “ummm, what’s going on in here?”
“Beautiful angel,” Clark looks up and turns to me, “we found some left-over coke in Deirdre’s room—“
Chopper looks at me, “Can you believe she almost pawned my bike off for coke, when all along she had a bag of it stashed under her bed!“
“Along with a great collection of hair pieces,” Bill brushes a strand of hair back from his eyes.
“Have you met Alan?” Clark pulls Alan away from the counter. “He’s your friend Celeste’s boyfriend—”
I nod, because Clark obviously doesn’t remember that it was me that introduced Alan and Celeste to everyone when they first walked in.
…
The sun is beating down on my car, and the AC is pumping. I’m drinking coffee out of my travel mug, and Holly is drinking the vodka and OJ we bought at a convenience store, out of the extra travel mug I gave her. We’re forty-eight miles into our trip to Vegas.
Holly takes a sip out of her travel mug, “do you love him?”
I take a sip out of my travel mug, “of course.”
Holly adjusts the AC, “good, because Mom thinks you’re on the rebound from what’s-his-name.”
I scoff at my mother thinking she knows anything about my life, considering every time I try to tell her anything she puts her own spin on it as if she hasn’t heard a word I said.
“When did you talk to mom?” Holly doesn’t just call my parents out of the blue to catch up. They have a strained relationship at best, so she only calls them when she wants something.
“A couple days ago, I wanted Aunt Helen’s number.”
Sex, Life, & Hannah editor Scott Frazelle discusses his favorite storylines from the new Sex, Life, & Hannah book: The emergence of Hannah’s sister Holly as a real character, and Phillip Ferrari as a complicated love interest.
I have to agree. I do love how Holly comes alive in this book and we get to see that there’s more to her than just a spoiled girl who inherited her late husband’s millions. The direction of Hannah’s relationship with Phillip Ferrari took me by surprise. I didn’t really have a plan for them, but as I started writing about the inner dynamics, everything started taking shape, and it went from a basic affair to something more…
