Page 65 of What If I See You

Her question forces a laugh. “Okay maybe not without warning, but…”

“So, we need him to be a little more intentional,” Ella suggests, and I nod.

“That would be helpful, yes.”

Corrigan’s arches her brows. “And if he were to be more intentional, you would be open to those intentions?”

I feel like I shouldn’t be smiling but I can’t help it. “Yes?”

“Great!” Ella claps her hands. “I have the perfect idea.”

“Okay let’s hear it.”

She leans over and pulls a large rainbow-colored dildo with a suction cup on the end out of my bedside drawer, her eyes huge with humored excitement. “This.”

I cover my mouth with my hand to hide my giggles. “And what the hell am I supposed to do with that?”

“What it’s intended to be used for! Duh!” she says with a completely straight face. “You’re putting this sucker in your shower where it belongs.”

“Oh my God, seriously?” I jut my hip out. “Like I’m going to use that thing in my shower with Griffin around where he can see it.”

Corrigan bursts out laughing. “Honey that is exactly what you’re going to do. You’re going to put that thing in your shower like the trophy it is and let him see it!”

Scarlett gasps. “Oh, my God, yes! Corri’s right, Layken. Who cares if you use it or not? You have to display it in your shower and then make Griffin go in there to see it! Holy fuck he’ll shit a brick!”

We all have a healthy laugh over what Griffin would possibly say to my having an extra-large dildo suction cupped to my shower.

Ella wiggles the dildo in her hand. “But I bet it’ll give him plenty of dirty thoughts to drive him crazy. He’ll be picturing you using this thing every time he looks at you until he’s so frustrated that he can’t help but make a move.”

Scarlett slips her hand into her pocket and pulls out money. Holding it up she says, “I’ll give you fifty bucks right fucking now if you promise to do it and then tell us what happens.”

“I’ll give you fifty bucks right now if you make him go into your bathroom for some reason while we’re all there so we can see his reaction,” Ella adds.

Corrigan jumps up from the bed and grabs my hands. “Please, oh please, oh puh-lease let us be there when it happens!”

Scarlett’s eyes grow huge. Eyeing something on my dresser, she jumps up from my bed. “I have an idea!” She squeals and reaches for a bottle of nail polish remover before spinning around to show the rest of us.

“We’re putting this in the moving box along with a few of your nail polish colors. Tomorrow night when we’re all at August and Ella’s place, we girls will plan to do our nails.” She shakes the remover. “But leave this in your bathroom. And then you can ask him to come upstairs and get it for you.”

“Yes!” Ella claps her hands. “Then he’s bound to see this,” she says, still waving the dildo in her hand. “And we’ll all be able to see his expression when he comes back downstairs!”

The idea of playing with Griffin a little bit to get him to be more open with his feelings does sound exciting.

Will it work? I have no idea, but even if it doesn’t…even if it turns out he doesn’t feel the same way as me, seeing his reaction to a huge vibrating dildo in my shower would be funny as hell.

“Alright. It’s a deal.”

Corrigan wraps her arms around me. “That’s my girl!”

August and Ella’splace is laid out similarly to Griffin’s except that everything is the opposite direction since their apartment is on the other side of the hall one floor below us. From what the guys have said, the place, when August lived here by himself, was bland and plain without much personality to it. But since Ella has moved in, their space is a colorful array of textures and furniture that really give their home a fun eclectic vibe.

“Is it there? Where it’s supposed to be?” Scarlett whispers from her seat on the couch. The guys are huddled around a couple boxes of Harold’s Hotdogs, stuffing their faces while the ladies are hanging out in the living room. We’re flying out tomorrow for the team’s string of away games so tonight is our last hurrah for a few days while the guys, and Ella, are working.

I nod my head with the slightest of smirks. “Yep.

“In the shower or on the sink?” Corri asks, hiding her smile behind her glass of soda.

“Shower. With my nail brush. There’s zero chance he’ll miss it if I send him in there.”

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