Page 30 of Anyone But Her

Chapter Seven

March - Spring Break

Taylor

"Where are you going?" I ask as Cal gets up from the table. "I'm not done with dinner."

"I got a text." He holds up his phone. "I'm gonna call him and see if he can come over."

"Who are you talking about?"

"Luke. He just got into town. He's staying at a hotel in Mesa."

"I thought he was in Dallas this week for that golf seminar."

"He was but he said it wasn't teaching him anything new so he decided to come here instead."

"He's coming here? To the house?"

"I'm not sure. I have to call him and see what's up." He takes off for his room, leaving me alone at the table. My parents are out with their friends tonight so it's just Cal and me. His spring break is the same time as mine so we both have the week off.

A few minutes later Cal comes back downstairs. "I'm going out."

"Where are you going?"

"You sound just like Mom. Why do you care?"

"I don't. It was just a question." I move my broccoli around on my plate. "So um...is Luke going with you?"

"Yeah." Cal takes his plate to the sink.

"How's he been?"

"Luke? I don't know. He seems to be doing okay."

Why isn't he telling me more? Like what Luke's been up to the past few months. If he has a girlfriend. If he's mentioned me at all since he met me. These are all things I need to know!

I haven't been able to stop thinking about Luke since I saw him last fall. I didn't want to bring up Luke's name to Cal with no context around it but now that we're talking about him I have the chance to ask questions and Cal's not giving me any answers!

"You think you'll see him much this week?" I ask.

"Well, yeah. That's why he's here. So we can hang out since I don't have class." He puts his plate in the dishwasher.

"What are you guys going to do?"

"What do we always do?"

"Golf."

"And at night we'll go out and find girls," he says, drying his hands on a dishtowel.

"Girls?" I drop my fork on my plate.

His brows rise. "You got a problem with that?"

"No! I'm just surprised."

"About what?"

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