Chapter 271

Melinda saw Colin and me move with great difficulty and noticed his inebriation. Her mouth was wide open in disbelief.

"Harper, what is this?" Melinda looked past me and asked my Mom behind me.

Mom pressed her lips into a hard line and thought that she shouldn't be the one to tell her the news. Instead, she tossed the responsibility back to me. "Ask them. You know, young people nowadays."

"What? What happened? Okay. Uhm, honey? Honey? Come and help me, please. Colin is drunk. Geez, how many drinks did he have?"

Austin appeared in my view half-asleep. He, too, was taken aback when he looked at us. Shortly after, at Melinda's behest, he approached me to take the drunk Colin off me.

But Colin refused to let go. He mumbled that he didn't want to leave me, and his left hand maintained a tight grip on my shoulder as if it was fused to my body.

It was dark outside, and we couldn't stay by the entrance for too long.

I had no other choice but to enter Colin's home.

The three of us toile