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It had been a stupid thing to do and she should’ve apologized to him.
    “Holly, don’t overthink it. The guy deserved it, otherwise you wouldn’t have hit him in the first place.”
    She smiled. They knew her so well.
    Josie emerged from the tent, hair standing on end and pointing in every direction. “Hey you! You’re up early.” On noticing Holly’s hand, she freaked. “What happened?”
    “I hit Steward. And I broke his nose.”
    “Holly,” she said, a tinge of pity evident in her tone. “Did you go to the ER?”
    An almost uncontrollable grin broke out on her face. “I did, and Jake took me.”
    Josie laughed. “I told you he was a heart-throb. If I wasn’t married—”
    “Okay, we get it. You would do things to him that I could only dream of.”
    “That’s not true. I do them all with you, my big toothpick,” she teased, leaning over and kissing George loudly.
    “Too much, people. Still angry over here,” Holly cautioned, pointing at herself.
    “Still?” Josie asked with an incredulous ‘huh’ look on her face.
    Holly just chuckled.
    George got up and poured both Josie and Holly a cup of coffee.
    “So, did you guys chat? What does he do?”
    “He’s studying to become a doctor. Did you know that?”
    “Seriously?”
    Holly nodded.
    “Could that man be any more perfect?”
    “He’s not. His mom is apparently crazy when it comes to him.”
    Josie’s expression dropped from the daydream smile that had been plastered on it, to the ‘surely you jest’ kind of look. “You’re kidding?” she finally managed to say.
    “Nope. He put my name down as Henry on the hospital form, just so his mom wouldn’t find out that he’d taken a female there for treatment.”
    “Henry?” Josie could not contain her laughter.
    Holly went ahead and recounted the entire story of how they kept calling her Henry. She had to admit that Jake hadn’t known where to look or how to act, but she was really digging the guy and looked at him the way she had before she’d assumed that Sonic was his girlfriend.
    At around nine o’clock, everyone began to wake up; it was coffees all around. Holly met a couple of Josie’s friends, whom she’d never met before even though she’d been with Brandon. Every single one congratulated her for leaving his ass, adding that someone better would come along.
    An hour later, breakfast was on the grill. The smell was divine, but Holly knew she needed to head back to Bernie’s. However, Josie talked her into staying and having breakfast with them.
    This went on until noon when a familiar ache told Holly that her pain medication had worn off. When she mentioned it to George, he said that he had something even better for her pain. He got a bottle of South African Mampoer, a name she couldn’t pronounce, which brought about bouts of laughter when George kept repeating it and she kept getting wrong. However, the contents of the bottle were no laughing matter. It was really strong and went straight to Holly’s head. She’d had about four shots and was feeling dizzy but not the bad dizzy Jake’s medicine had left her with, this was a good dizzy.
    Everyone started to whistle when Josie began chatting about her fantasy.
    Holly attempted to get a clear picture of how Josie perceived Jake, but it was hard.
    “C’mon, Holls, you can do it.”
    “Do what?” Holly shrieked.
    “Kiss the living crap out of him. He doesn’t have a girlfriend.”
    “No, that is your fantasy.”
    “It’s yours, too! No fibbing.”
    “Okay, fine, it’s mine, too. But I’m not going to admit it.”
    They all cracked up again at Holly’s reply. She just rolled her eyes with a huge grin plastered on to her face.
    “Do it, Holls, take one for the team.” The girls began to chant, “Do it, do it, do it!”
    “Okay, I’ll do it.”
    “Woohoo!” Josie clapped her hands excitedly and cheered.
    A fifth round of Mampoer came around, and one by one the girls passed out. Josie stumbled to her bed and