My stomach flipped. “Have you taken a pregnancy test?” I forced the words out. There was no part of me that wanted to be having this conversation, but it was the right thing to ask.
“Ew, no. I just have a bug or something. Trust me, I would know.”
I sighed. “Just to be on the safe side…I mean, we’ve been careful, but stranger things have happened.”
“Look, Mav, I’ve got this under control. Just let me puke in peace and get your thoughts away from wherever the hell they are because you’re scaring me.”
“Fine.” I grabbed a rubber band that was sitting on the counter, threw her hair up in it, and left her there.
“Is she okay?” Julie asked as I shut the door behind me.
“Whoa, how long have you been standing there?” I asked, taken aback by my sister creepily hovering outside the bathroom, waiting for me.
“Long enough to hear what you asked her. So help me God, Maverick, if you do not tell me what is going on, I am going to scream.”
I grabbed her hand, dragging my sister into her room across the hall. “Fine, but you cannot tell a damn soul anything I am about to tell you, and you have to promise you will not tell Leilani I said anything.”
She held up three fingers. “Scout’s honor.”
I rubbed the back of my neck. “Leilani and I have been dating, in secret, for a few months now.”
Julie punched my chest, hard. “I fucking knew it. I knew you were being too nice to everyone for there not to be something going on between the two of you. But…is she? You know…”
I sucked in a deep breath. “I have no idea, and she is being a little stubborn about the whole thing.”
“I need to talk to her about this. Drive me to the drugstore. I’ll buy a test and talk her into taking it.”
“Jules, no. I said you couldn’t say anything to her, and you gave me your word.”
“Do you have a better idea?”
I shook my head.
“Then fucking drive me.”