Page 46 of How to Win the Girl

Of course he is. The dude looks like he hasn’t missed leg day in years.

I also happen to be heading in that direction, not that I want to tell him that.

I stand aside to let him pass. “After you.”

“No, no, after you.”

My head shakes. “I insist.”

As our stare down ensues, students graze past, some of them curiously staring, others greet Drake, the rest of them ignore us but walk through the door I’m holding open.

“Go,” I tell him assertively. “I have all day to stand here.”

I don’t actually have time to stand here playing doorman, but he doesn’t need to know that. It’s none of his dang business.

Drake purses his lips. “Ladies first.”

“Oh my god!” My outburst is loud. A few people in the student union look over at us. “Would you go already!”

With a laugh, he walks, and I wait a few heartbeats before letting the door close behind me, then wait a few heartbeats more so he’s more than a few feet in front.

I am not walking next to this Neanderthal.

“Why doesn’t it matter that Drew is a twin?”

Are we still doing this?

I sigh. “Because, like I said, we’re not going to date. ‘Your brother’ and I are just friends.”

I use air quotes around the words “your brother,” still not trusting that Drew isn’t playing a prank on me, despite a few people greeting him as Drake. Which by the way is weird? If they’re twins, they’re identical, and how the frick are people able to tell them apart?

“Does my brother know you’re ‘just friends’?”

I shrug.How the heck should I know?“I’m sure he does—we only swiped on each other because we were annoyed with each other.” The same way he’s annoying me now. Are these two guys always this…

Exasperating?

“Also,” I continue. “When a guy likes someone, he asks her out. And he hasn’t asked me out. We’ve been chatting long enough for that to have happened already. Plus in class he leaves me alone.”

He’s walking backward as if he does it every day. People are careful not to smash into or crash into him, swerving to avoid him.

“Should I tell him to?”

“I don’t care what you do.” We just met. Nor am I about to spill my guts to him about what I want and don’t want from a relationship or who I want one with.

Is this twin dude annoying?

Yes.

Would it be cool if Drew grew a pair of balls and asked me on a date?

Sure.

Do I want him asking me out because his brother tells him to?

Absolutely maybe.

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