Page 136 of Your Side of the Offense

Getting to know one another once more.

We study together, we sleep together. Luckily, there is no practice, so I don’t have to deal with drama. Even at the house, the guys give us space as we follow each other everywhere.

But today is the day and I am packing a bag to go spend the night at their house. Even though me and Harv are going to San Franco for the engagement, we won’t be spending the night. We are flying right back.

“I don’t see why you need any clothes,” Harvey says eyeing my bag with a few shorts, skirts, and mostly crop tops.

“I don’t think I want to be naked all weekend, babe.”

“You just had to take it to the gutter, I meant you could wear our clothes.”

I roll my eyes. Of course he’s lying.

“Don’t act like you wouldn’t prefer me in panties and thigh-high socks, Ford.”

His want dances on his features even as he says, “I have two tests next week. I’m not trying to fail them.”

“Weak is your flesh.”

He chuckles. Familiar voices laugh outside, and I know exactly who it is. Hazel, Lin, and Gabby. Harvey stays on his phone. Then a knock comes and I want to shoot a whole dozen bullets at the door. What the fuck do they want now? I thought we were finished.

Harvey gets up from the bed as I walk to the door. He opens the door and I peep next to him, finding Hazel standing alone.

“What do you want?” Harvey asks in a clipped tone.

“Can I please talk to you?” She looks at me.

I look at Harvey who is still glaring at her.

“No,” I answer.

“Su, I just want to apologize. I won’t waste your time,” she says and I wonder where her friends are. Did they leave her or are they around the corner? It is puzzling why she is still here trying to make nice with me.

As I stare at her face, I find myself saying, “I’ll be in your room in a few minutes.”

Harvey’s head turns to me, his glare now directed to me. But I close the door on Hazel’s face to tend to my man. “I am not going to be friends with her again, but I can let her say her peace and say mine. I thought we were friends and maybe we deserve real closure.”

Harvey’s face doesn’t soften. “I still don’t like it, but I’ll wait. I’ll finish up here and we can go. Caleb is almost finished cooking.”

I give his cheek a kiss, grateful for his understanding then walk out and knock once before Hazel calls me inside. I walk in and stand in the middle of the room. It doesn’t even feel right to sit anymore, we have become that foreign to one another. I can’t believe this is the girl I once thought was my best friend.

“Like I said, I wanted to apologize, Su. It should have never happened the way it did,” she starts, fingers knitting together, looking remorseful. That would fool me if I don’t see through her now. Hazel is a manipulative bitch. How she steadily pushed me towards Logan even as she was fucking him right behind my back. Who does that?

“When did you start sleeping with him?” It is sheer curiosity at this point. I have my suspicions, but I want to be sure.

“Huh?” Her mouth hangs open, her glossy eyes wide. And all I can think is: what a fake ass bitch.

“When did this thing between you and Logan start?”

“I don’t think—"

“I do.”

She looks away almost dramatically and my itch to face-palm myself almost consumes me.

When she sees I’m not letting it up, she finally sighs. “Remember when you and Logan were supposed to go on a date and you dropped him to go to the hospital?”

The day Archer got sick. I don’t know why I am surprised.

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