Reunited (34 page)

Alice didn’t want to get her hopes up about the rest of the night. And yet, how could she possibly keep her expectations in check when she was heading off into the night with her three favorite rock stars and her two oldest friends?

Alice took a deep breath, making a mental list of all the things that could potentially go wrong. Ryan’s party could be awful. The guys could turn out to be jerks once she got to know them. Or Level3 could think
they
were the jerks. Or maybe the night would be totally amazing, but the girls would have to live the rest of lives knowing that their very best moment had already passed them by. Which, of course, would inevitably bum them out, causing things to fall apart between them all over again, and Alice’s friendship with Summer and Tiernan wouldn’t last past the drive back to Walford.

Alice exhaled.

No, there was no need to make plans right now or to worry about what might come next. Not when the bright lights of Austin glittered with possibility. Not even with the knowledge that this perfect moment would someday come to an end. The night was still young. And to Alice, it felt like the beginning.