I Love You More Than I'm Afraid (Our Forevers #2) by Rebel Hart (the first e reader .txt) 📕

incredibly difficult to get one. However, after Suli helped me get a fake ID and I got my actual driver’s license, I applied to start driving for one of those food delivery services. I changed to a different one when I was actually legally old enough to drive, and that was how I made money when I needed it. Before I saved up for my car, I’d use Suli’s to work, and then mine after I bought it. It was exhausting, and had gotten dangerous a couple of times with people who tried to claim that you brought them the wrong thing, but ultimately it was fine. It would only take a weekend, maybe two to save up for the application fee and what I’d need to buy the parts for the blueprint I picked out. It should be fine.

“Are you sure? It could be like a graduation present,” Aria said.

“That’s far too generous a graduation present. Besides, I really want to earn this on my own, you know? Every part of it.”

Aria nodded, seeming to accept that. “Yeah. I get it, but promise me that if something comes up, you’ll tell me. Even if it would make you feel better to borrow it and pay it back, we can work something out.”

I looked up at her with a smile. “I promise.”

“There’s an interview process as well, it sounds like. They’ll do it over video chat if you don’t live in the state.”

I frowned at that. “Gotta pull my gauges and hide my tatts?”

“Uh.” She laughed and then turned her phone to face me. “This is the CEO, so I think you’ll be fine.”

The woman on the screen had electric green hair, earrings hanging from her earlobes and cartilage, and an obvious tattoo peeking up over the top of her blouse, similar to the one I had sprawled across my chest.

“Oh my god,” I said. “Is this my mecca?”

She nodded. “It just might be.”

I shoved my binder in Aria’s direction, unable to make a decision of my own. “Look through these and tell me which one I should do.”

Aria groaned. “You know I can’t read your blueprints. They confuse the hell out of me.”

“Just read the descriptions and look at the concepts,” I said. “I can’t decide.”

Aria took the binder and started to flip through the pages just as my phone rang. We both looked down at the screen and then Aria said, “Suli, huh?”

“Shit,” I hissed. “I forgot I said that I’d call her back.” I picked up my phone and answered it before pressing it to my ear. “Hey.”

“Uh, what the fuck, Arden?” she barked. “First you let some brat come and snatch you away from me last night, then you ignore my texts, then you call me, then you hang up on me. What’s the deal?”

“I’m sorry,” I grumbled, running a hand through my hair. “Something came up suddenly and I had to go. That’s totally my bad. For last night too. I know you were just looking out for me.” Aria snorted. “It was better that I went with my friend though.”

“Well what about me? You totally blue balls-ed me last night.”

“You don’t have balls,” I retorted quickly.

She hissed, “That’s not the point. You blew me off.”

“I did. I’m so sorry.”

“If you’re sorry, come see me tonight,” she said. “If you don’t wanna go to The Undersound, I’m off tonight. We can order delivery, pop and fuck while we’re waiting for it to get here, and then just lounge around naked. It’ll be great.”

It didn’t sound half bad, but Aria was no longer looking at the blueprints and was instead just watching me, and I gathered from the furrow in her brow that she could hear Suli perfectly fine with how close she was sitting.

“I’m actually with my friend Aria now. She brought me a brochure about this internship. It’s really awesome and I’m just trying to get my ducks in a row to apply for it. I’m sorry, I think I’d better stay in tonight.”

“I guess, if it’s for your future or whatever. But you owe me, you brat,” she joked.

I laughed. “I totally owe you. I’ll make it up to you. I promise.”

“Hmm, I like the sound of that, so I’ll let it slide. The real question is when will you make it up to me?”

Aria’s eyes were boring into me, and I wished that I had waited to talk to Suli until she wasn’t there. Then again, I didn’t really want to keep secrets from Aria. She continued to accept me time and again as she discovered the many, many issues I had. The least I could do was continue to be honest with her.

“I’m not sure. Between school and applying for the internship, it may not be until after I graduate.”

“What?!” Suli screeched. “That’s like three months away!”

“I gotta do what’s best for me,” I said. “It’s nothing personal.”

Suli was quiet for a really long time, and when I looked up at Aria, she nodded in approval of my words. Finally, Suli sighed and said, “I don’t want to mess with any opportunities or anything for you, so if you think that’s best, I’ll wait.”

I smiled. “Thank you. I appreciate it.”

“But now you really, really owe me.”

I laughed. “I can think of a few ways to pay you back.”

She chuckled and the tension left my body knowing that I’d smoothed everything over okay. “I’m getting chills just thinking about it.”

“I should go. I’m trying to decide what blueprint to do for the application.”

“Good luck. If you need a third set of eyes, text me.”

I nodded. “Yeah, I just might take you up on that. Talk to you later.”

“Talk to you later. Bye.”

I hung up the phone and set it down, letting out a sigh of relief. Aria snickered at me. “You navigated that minefield well.”

“It was not easy,” I said.

“So you and this Suli girl…. You’re a thing?”

I shrugged. “Friends with benefits, I guess?”

She nodded. “Ah.” She was picking at the