Free Saving Grace by Christine Zolendz

waitresses' shirt s as she giggled. Brayden , Ethan, Conner , and Lea sat with their backs to me and were talk ing in some heated conversation, their hands flailing about. Tucker, like the dog he is , was s itting drunkenly ogling Shane's skank and poking her arm to get her attention.
    Then Shane noticed me . As if he were trying to memorize each and every contour, his eyes roamed every inch of my body until they locked on my eyes and his lips parted open. His face was tense and pained; he was so fucking perfect it took my breath away. I ignored his stare, because really, it made my f rea king heart flutter and my knees weak. And, let's not even think about what I was imagining I could do to him with my tongue or how I wanted to scream at the skank to get off his lap.
    "Wow, now that's a beautiful sight right there. Hel...lo , Grace," Tucker called out to me. Everybody turned their heads and smiled.
    Except for Shane, who lifted up his beer and drunkenly shouted, "Hey look who it is boys, the Holy fucking Grail of Pussies." He offered me a stupid drunk smirk and downed the rest of his beer. Uh oh .
    Alex reached over and shoved him on the shoulder, "What the fuck is your problem today, jackhole ? Sit
dow
n,

Grace, don't mind Shane, I think he's on the rag."
    Lea pulle d over a chair for me and sat me across from Shane, at the very same minute he started shoving his tongue down the
girl's
throat. I died a little right there, just then. Died .
    The waitress who was hanging all over Alex stood up and cleared her throat, "Hey Grace , what can I get you tonight?"
    Before I could answer, Shane yelled from in between the skanks lips, "Mind Erasers with
straw
s,

Mollie. And keep them coming, it's time to play a game." He stood up and the brunette fell to the floor and yelped. He looked down at her and laughed, "Whoops, psf. Better sit in your own seat Marie, this shit is going to get wild." The girl sat down and pouted. Yes, pouted, the lower lip stuck out and everything . Hot pink lipstick everywhere. Ugh, even on Shane's face.
    I gave her a little wave, "Marie, wow." I looked Shane dead in the eyes smiling. "Shane I'm impressed, usually you don't ever get their first names. She must be special ."
    Tucker
burs
t

out laughing, "Yeah, for tonight at least.
Righ
t,

Shane!" He slapped his hands against the table. "Hey Grace, you need someone special for tonight?"
    Ethan stood up, walked behind Tucker laughing, and smacked him in the back of his head. "Shut the h ell up, are you freaking twelve? Haven't you hit puberty yet, did anyone ever teach you how to speak to women?" he laughed.
    Shane's jaw tightened and his eyes narrowed a fract ion. "How frea king sweet, Ethan's protecting the Holy Grail."
    " Oookay !" Lea cut everybody off. "What drinking game are we playing?"
    Mollie returned with our first round of Mind Eraser's with straws . She handed them out and left like her ass was on fire.
    Shane scooped up his drink in his hand and held his arms out stretched. He flailed his arms and his drink sloshed over the side of his glass and spilled down the front of Marie's shirt. She didn't even notice. "We're going to play a little game called Answer This. Rules are , you get to ask anyone a question and they either have to answer TRUTHFULLY , or if you're a pussy and don't want to answer, you have to drink your Mind Eraser. Whole damn thing through the straw." He st ared straight at me, "And no fuc king lies!"
    Alex raised his hands, "Oh, me first , and this is to everyone at the table. Okay, answer this...Where is the craziest place you have ever had sex?"
    Shane rolled his eyes and sat back down while everyone went down the line giving their answer.
    "Bathroom," Brayden said.
    "A fast food ball pit in the kid's play area," Alex laughed answering his own question. Everybody moaned. " What? " He said red in the face.
    Conner and Lea both giggled and said, "Ferris wheel." How is that even possible?
    When it was Shane's turn , Alex