Page 11 of Level Up

It couldn’t happen.

I had to be strong.

But fuuuuuck, Ryan made me so horny.

“Why am I bad news, Jay?”

I blinked, surprised he still didn’t realize. How did he walk around the world with all this blood and oil on his hands and not even care? He was a smart guy. I was sure he was aware of the damage his family caused with their company.

I wasn’t about to go into it with him now. Not while I was still dripping wet, butt-ass naked, and hard as a goddamn stalagmite.

“Just forget it and call someone who can deal with the tarantula in the bathroom.” I grabbed my damp towel and wrapped it back around my waist. Ryan’s face dropped in disappointment.

Yeah, well, that made two of us, buddy.

Three days had passed since the spider incident, and I would still randomly get hard throughout the day thinking about it.

Which was awkward when I was sitting across from my advisor this morning. I went to ask if I could double major in Environmental Science and Theater. Unfortunately, she had let me know that their theater program was full but that I could still audition for the spring plays. It wasn’t exactly what I wanted to hear, but being in Cali meant there were way more opportunities to grow as an actor outside of college.

It was also a great way to deflate my perma-boner, although it didn’t last too long.

Even now, while I sat in a huge lecture hall being taught all about how to stain a culture of bacteria. It was likely one of the least sexiest topics in the world, and yet I couldn’t get my dick to calm the fuck down. I tried focusing on taking notes, but I’d miss random things because all I kept thinking about was:

Dick, dick, dick, dick, Ryan’s dick, cock dick, Ryan’s dick against mine, Ryan’s dick inside me, dick cock?—

Yeah. It wasn’t great.

“Psst.”

Maddison Winstead, someone who’d quickly become a good friend in the short amount of time since I transferred, pulled my attention out of my peen-trance. She sat next to me, doodling in her iPad instead of taking notes. She had bright pink hair styled in a pixie cut, which made her hard to miss in any room. She had a gentle face but an ability to read someone to filth and not even break a sweat doing it. She was pre-med, extremely driven, and extremely political.

Plus, she had a really successful ASMR YouTube channel, so she exuded creative boss bitch energy too.

Basically, she was made for me.

“Danny is saying that he saw you with Ryan Redpine. Is that true?”

I looked past Maddy to a smirking Danny. He had dark black hair that looked like campfire smoke next to Maddy’s pink comet. Super friendly guy but clearly too interested in other people’s lives.

“Why didn’t you tell me you were friends with him?” Maddison said in a shocked whisper, her face covering Danny’s.

“I was going to,” I said, leaning forward and shooting one last (menacing but mostly friendly) glare at Danny. He gave a wide smile before running a hand through his hair. I returned the grin before turning my attention to the front of the class.

I wasn’t a huge fan of people linking us together, but Danny had been friendly since the start of class, so I didn’t really mind if he was the one who spotted us.

Professor Sinclair, our microbio teacher, was out sick today, so his hot TA took over for him. Everly wasn’t exactly my type—I wasn’t into the blond-haired, blue-eyed, buff aesthetic he rocked, but regardless, no one could deny he wasn’t difficult to look at.

Now, if Ryan were my TA, then it’d be game over. But of course, he wasn’t my TA. Why would he be working in a classroom that had anything to do with potentially protecting the environment? Of course he wouldn’t want to learn all about the ecosystems his family was destroying and the creatures his family endangered on a daily basis.

What an asshole.

What an extraordinarily hot and charismatic and magnetic asshole.

Ugh.

“And we aren’t friends. He’s my new roommate,” I whispered back.

“Are you serious? That’s who you’ve been living with? I knew they reassigned someone, but you failed to mention it was Ryan Redpine. Wow.” She sucked her teeth and shook her head. “Naughty, naughty.”

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