Page 40 of More For Me

“Fine,” I say. “But you keep your phone on all day and you better answer my texts.”

“Yay!” She throws her arms around me. “Thanks, Lele!”

I pat her back, still not entirely convinced this is a good idea. “Every text, Vega. If you’re on a ride, you better respond the second you get off.”

“I will, I promise.”

She releases me and turns to CeCe. “Let’s go, Ceece.”

Our cousin blinks at her, clearly surprised. “Uh, I want to ride with Bodhi.” She looks over at the girls. “No offense, or whatever.”

“No!” Vega yells, somewhat shrilly. Her eyes dart to me and then back to CeCe. “You have to come!”

CeCe is looking at her cousin like she’s gone crazy. “But Bodhi and I were going to try to break our record on Space Mountain.”

“You can do it next time,” Vega practically growls, staring at CeCe with narrowed eyes, clearly trying to tell her something.

“But he was going to buy us churros!”

“I’ll buy you a freaking churro! All the churros you want.” Vega holds out her hand. “I won’t have any fun without you. Come. On.”

CeCe sighs, throwing up her hands. “Fine. But I’m not spending the whole day looking at guys. I am here to ride rides and eat junk food until I puke.”

Vega rolls her eyes. “Great. Let’s go.”

CeCe looks up at me, shrugging. “Your sister is nuts.”

“I’m well aware.”

“See you guys later.” She gives us a wave, not looking at all happy about it, and follows Vega and the other girls.

I watch them for a long minute, my unease growing, before turning back to Bodhi.

“That was weird, right? There was something seriously weird about that.” I close my eyes as I knead my forehead. “God, did I just send my little sister off to smoke pot in the Disneyland bathrooms or something?”

Bodhi laughs, pulling my hand away from my face. “I highly doubt that.” His expression is weird—he looks like he’s both annoyed and trying not to laugh.

“What?”

“I’m pretty sure this was a set-up, Lele.”

“A set-up? What do you mean?”

He gestures between the two of us, and then around at the park. “If your little sister was going to try to engineer a romantic date for me, I’m pretty sure this is what she would come up with. She knows I love Disney more than anything. Remember when we watched that Fairy Tale wedding show about people getting married here?”

My mouth drops, realization hitting me as I remember the day a few months ago. “She was teasing you about being overly romantic.”

He nods, smiling even as he still looks exasperated. “She said she could see me renting out the castle for my own wedding someday.”

My eyes widen. “She’s trying to get us alone together! This is the stupid restaurant all over again!” I throw out my hands, getting weird looks from the people around me. “What in the hell is wrong with my family?”

Bodhi takes one of my hands—preventing me from smacking it into the stroller that’s passing us—and pulls me a little farther to the edge of the pathway. “She thinks she’s helping.”

“I’m going to kill her, I swear,” I fume, standing on my tiptoes to try to see her retreating back. “I’m going to put bleach in her darks the next time she does the laundry. I’m replacing her body wash with craft glue. I’m going to hide her bottle of good vanilla flavoring—”

“Everly.”

“I’m talking the really good kind, Bodhi. Not some crap imitation vanilla. She has this shit imported from like, Madagascar for her cooking channel.”