Lies He Told Me - A Mafia Romance

r who wrote "nyce a$$" on Jessica Wallen's graduation s

ing. "You worked at Wendy's before, right? What happened t

" I say, and l

me-off-when-my-mom-got-pneumonia sob story. He wouldn't care, and I decided long ago to

ep, family's the best

ting stoned, crappily covering the scent with Axe spray, th

n with these rice bags." I go

t he

ood, t

ust hang here, thou

off and stop staring at my ass. That's what you get when you work with

the source of the random blunts and wafts of pot, even though his own son is st

ad bought it hook, line, and sinker, when he claimed the new and impro

ben's, moving in an effort to look like he's doing something useful

ash out the tills, and no leaving early." Johnny's out the door with a thro

e urge to r

into a bad-news she-devil-but whatever he did say, Johnny periodically gives me the evil eye and right now, he is looking at me like he mean

him, the buzzing starts up in my chest. Dammit. Even if Johnny is a fatter version of Ruben,

the stockroom has changed, warped somehow. It'

h winners as: "Hell yeah, girl, you look good putting up that pasta"; "Dayum,

than be alone with him, let alone actually do a

strils. Yep, surprise, surprise-Daddy's barely t

ls from the far corn

s. And we're not

I was just offering. No ne

st plain stupid, since your da

e at all would make me an accessory to the

for the bathroom at a jog. The smell of ma

he floor when the ba

e hell?" Jo

We're in f

ree of us are packed into Johnny's cupboard-sized office which stinks o

in a daze, like this is

in Ruben's face, although his eyes

ants to pluck it out of his dad's sausage fingers,

ha

wrong answe

s at me. "But, uh,

?" I

elly-flopped onto his ship and is going

I've never smoked

squinting at me. "You

lack-cheeked faces. I hate their blank eyes, devoid of anything worthwhile. I hate that these idiots a

ally care anymore. I'm tired of twisting myself in

rious for being stoned at our high school. He constantly has red eyes. You've been complainin

ct, fact

ohnny's pea brain, as it tries to find

s, you know that!"

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