Page 55 of Becoming Selfish

“Okay, that works for me.”

“I’ll meet you at your place then, around nine?” I ask, hoping for the opportunity to be in her space again.

“Perfect.” She gives me a sweet smile, locking her green eyes with mine. God, how badly I want to lean down and press my lips to hers, but I can’t. I still don’t know where her head is at when it comes to us.

After a moment, she breaks our eye contact and begins to take my jacket off to return it to me. “Oh, no. Keep it. I’ll get it when I see you Friday,” I tell her as I hold my hand out to stop her. Even though I’m freezing right now, I would rather her be warm.

She gives me a grateful smile as she pulls my jacket back on and holds it tightly against her body.

“What do you have planned for the rest of your night?” I ask, avoiding the question I really want the answer to.

“I’m headed to Double G to meet up with Marc and Ali.”

“Look at you. You sound like a local,” I say with pride, trying to mask the cold chatter of my teeth.

“I try.” She shrugs, a blushing grin on her face. “Okay, well, have a good practice, Eli. I’ll see you Friday.” She quickly grazes her hand against my arm, instantly warming my entire body, before she turns on her heel to leave.

If I don’t ask now, I’m going to drive myself crazy, wondering, until Friday. “Logan!” I shout louder than I needed to as she’s only about ten feet away from me.

“Yeah?” She turns back to face me.

“We’re good, right?” I nervously scratch at my brow with my thumb.

“Yeah, why wouldn’t we be?”

“I don’t know.” I shrug, looking towards the ground. “You left early yesterday morning, so I wasn’t sure.” I shyly glance up at her. God, I sound pathetic.

She begins to walk towards me. “I went to the gym. Sorry, I should’ve told you, but I didn’t want to wake you up.” She reaches out to put her hand on my arm again, instantly soothing my concern.

“So, we are good then?” I ask for confirmation.

“Yes, we’re good.” She nods and tells me again, giving me the reassurance I need. “See you Friday.” She bites her bottom lip in an attempt to hold back her grin, but her dimples give away the fact that she finds my neediness amusing.

“And on Friday, are we still going to be just friends?” I tease, pressing my luck, and hoping that she has finally come to her senses.

“To be determined,” she says, though the flirty smirk she shoots me over her shoulder as she turns to leave tells me that she’s already made up her mind.

I watch her walk away, with her dark red hair blowing in the wind and my jacket sleeves hanging down, past her arms. She is literal perfection, and I could stare at her all day.

I don’t even recognize myself anymore from the thoughts I’m having as I shake my head and pull my phone out to check the time. Fuck, I have to get home and grab my gear for practice tonight or I’m going to be late. Looking back up, I make sure to capture one last glimpse of the stunning girl with dark red hair as she walks away from me.

Chapter 40

Logan

“How was creative writing?” Ali asks, before finishing off her second beer.

“It was...interesting,” I vaguely tell her, looking down and scanning the menu in my hands.

I seem to have piqued her curiosity as she sits up straighter in her chair and suggestively asks, “Oh, how so?”

“Well...” I begin as I look around Double G for Marc. He left for the bathroom a couple of minutes ago, but the bar is so packed tonight that I assume he will be waiting in line for a while. “I got paired up with Eli for an assignment. We have to interview and write a paper about the other person.”

“How much did he pay your professor to make that happen?” She laughs at herself as she sits back in her chair.

“That’s exactly what I said!” I slap the menu down and laugh along with her.

“Well, that will be fun, right?” She pops her shoulder. “You said things were good between you two after he came to your room and apologized for the other night.”

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