Page 71 of More To Us

She laughs, but then gets serious again. "Actually, I think I do want to wait. Amber kind of ruined the mood and I just..."

I hold her hand. "You don't have to explain. I told you, it's fine. For now, we'll just keep doing what we did earlier. You good with that?"

"Yeah." She looks to the side. "That was uh..." She smiles, a big wide smile.

I laugh a little. "I'll take that to mean you liked it."

"Did you guys decide?" Amber appears again with Matt.

"Yeah," I answer. "We decided to go."

"Great!" She looks at us both. "A double date! This'll be fun!" She motions to Kira. "But you might want to put a bra on."

"Amber!" Kira swats at her.

She laughs. "What? It's true. You can't go out like that. Your boobs are huge. Those things need to be contained."

"Oh my God," Kira says, folding her arms over her chest. "You are in so much trouble." She races down to her room.

"They're like this all the time," Matt says to me. "Fighting one minute. Hugging the next. They're like sisters."

"It's true," Amber says. "I've known Kira forever. Although she and I fight way less than I fight with my real sisters."

"How many sisters do you have?" I ask.

"Two. One older, one younger."

"I have three brothers. All older."

She smiles. "Yeah. I know. The whole city knows the Wheeler brothers. But your brothers all have girlfriends, right?"

Matt looks at her. "Excuse me, but I'm right here. Your boyfriend? Remember?"

She laughs. "I'm just asking. Not because I want to date them. It's just a question."

"Yeah, it better be," he says kiddingly as he puts his arm around her. Then he says to me, "Amber and her friends talk about you and your brothers all the time."

She playfully hits him. "Not all the time. You're exaggerating." She turns to me. "I have some friends at school who are kind of obsessed with you, but now that you and Kira are together, they'll have to find a new obsession." She turns back to Matt. "Which is why I asked if his brothers were single."

"Yeah, right." He gives her a kiss.

"I'm going to go see if she's ready," I say, not wanting to watch these two make out. I go down to Kira's room and knock on her door. "Kira, you almost ready?"

"Yeah." She opens the door, now wearing jeans and a loose see-through black shirt with a black tank top underneath. "Did they say where we're going?"

"No." I go in her room and shut the door. "So are we just going for drinks with them or do you want to go to the movie?"

"I don't care. Whatever you want to do."

"I'm not sure if I want to go with them to the movies. Are they gonna be all over each other?"

She gives me a funny look. "No. Why?"

"You said they're always going at it. That's why you never let me come up here. Although now that I've met them, they don't seem like they'd be that way. Matt just kissed her but it wasn't like—"

"I was just kidding. They're not always going at it." She goes to her dresser and gets some earrings, putting them on as she walks back to me. "I have to go dry my hair." She goes past me and out the door to the bathroom.

Why did she tell me that stuff about Matt and Amber if it wasn't true? Was she just trying to keep me out of her apartment? If so, then she should've just said that, not made up some story about her roommate.

This is the type of thing that gives me that nagging feeling that this is all too good to be true. I don't like it when people lie to me, or make up stories to avoid telling me the truth. Maybe this thing about her roommate was just meant to be a joke, but it's not funny if she was saying it just so I wouldn't come up to her apartment. I told her to be direct with me and tell me the truth. If she can't do that, this isn't going to last.

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