Speed Demon by ERIN LYNN Read Free Book Online

together. Isabella and Levi were a mismatch.
    But I had to support Isabella even if Levi had a girlfriend.
    Even if he had kissed me.
    “Okay,” I said, thrusting my guilt to the back of my brain. “We’d better pick the date and start inviting people. I don’t know if we should do a Halloween theme though since Halloween is actually tomorrow. We’ll have to plan the party for next weekend.”
    “No! That’s it. We’ll have the party tomorrow night, on Halloween. And people will think it’s seriously cool to have a party on a Sunday and to get a last-minute invite. It’s very Hollywood. And we can just not invite Amber.”
    She looked thrilled and I could tell she was creating a mental invite list.
    Me? Not so thrilled. I wasn’t exactly sure how I was going to convince my parents that even though I was grounded, I really should be allowed to have a spontaneous Halloween party on a school night solely for the purpose of breaking up Levi and Amber. Not that I intended to do anything to break the happy couple up. I didn’t like Amber, but there wasn’t a vengeful or malicious bone in my body. I just couldn’t stomach the idea of inserting myself between two people. Intentionally, that is. I bit my lip when I realized in a way, I had done just that, and it was seriously not a good thing, and could I feel any crappier? But while I wasn’t going to break them up—not on purpose, anyway—I wasn’t going to disillusion Isabella either, and who knows? If Levi and Amber had a massive fight and split, maybe Levi would actually want to be with Isabella despite the fact that they had absolutely nothing in common. There was no predicting these things. I hadn’t seen a demon popping out of my shower coming and that had happened. I had no idea what Isabella saw in Levi (okay, lying again), but who was to say they weren’t made for each other?
    It was all so complicated and I needed sugar. There was unfortunately none to be found in the hallway at the theater.
    But as for my parents, they were likely, just based on knowing my parents, going to laugh hysterically at all our party logic and tell me no way.
    So I’d have to do some maneuvering, because Isabella really wanted the party and I had been feeling bad that we weren’t spending as much time together as we had pre-Adam. And then there was the guilt over Levi and his lips on mine, which was getting worse by the minute.
    “Okay, we need to get Levi to ask my parents about the party. They’ll tell me no, but they’ll let him do it.” If not, he could throw some of that famed demon mojo on them and convince them to say yes.
    “Should we say costumes are required?”
    “It’s a Halloween party. Of course.” I smiled at her.
    Letting loose all our friends under a shroud of fake spider-webs had the potential to be a lot of fun.
     
     
    Agreeing to a party on twenty-four hours’ notice to make Isabella feel better was fine in theory. Actually putting that plan into motion was a different story.
    The minute Isabella had walked away with a cheerful wave to go back to dance class, I had started stressing. Levi wasn’t answering his phone and he was crucial to the success of Halloween Happiness.
    When Adam picked me up to go home, I was biting my nails. We were going back to my house to watch a movie, my parent’s compromise to the grounding. I could have Adam over for two hours, no more, and we couldn’t actually go anywhere. Which seriously decreased our ability to make out, which seriously sucked.
    But they could have been totally evil and not let me see him at all, so I wasn’t going to whine. Too much.
    “What’s the matter?” Adam said a minute after I climbed into his SUV.
    “Nothing.” What could I say? I’m worried that the demon who lives with me who appeared in my shower and is dating Amber isn’t answering his cell phone so I can make him force my parents to allow a party on zero notice so that same said demon can be lured into a romantic