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He looks around the kitchen. “Have you eaten dinner?”

“I was going to make some noodles.” I obviously wasn’t going to invite him to eat ramen noodles with me.

“Noodles?” he asks, confused.

I nod. “Ramen.” I also blush. I don’t really want to discuss my finances with him.

“That isn’t dinner. Come, we’re going out,” he says like he is insisting.

“Aaron, I don’t have a budget to go out. I also don’t think we should start hanging around campus together. It will give people the wrong idea, and I haven’t said anything to Ruby, Annie, or Charlie about our little fling.”

“Right.” He rolls back on his heels. I think I may have offended him. “Let’s order in then.”

He isn’t going to let up. “Okay.”

“Okay,” he repeats. “What are you in the mood for?”

“Anything,” I reply.

He cocks a brow.

“Food, Aaron. Any type of food,” I clarify, since it seems like his mind went to sex.

“I know you were talking about food.” He laughs.

“Sure you did.”

We decide on pizza since everything else he was mentioning made me feel nauseous.

After we eat I start yawning, and since I have homework I tell him I have work to do. I also need space from him. His reaction is better than anything I had conjured up, but it also scares the living daylights out of me because Aaron is the whole package, and I can’t go and fall in love with him.

CHAPTERSIXTEEN

Aaron

“Wake up, what’s wrong with you?” Luc asks, shaking me awake.

“Leave me alone,” I groan.

“Bro, you’re going to make us all late for practice,” Luc complains.

“I’m sick. Go without me.”

“You sound perfectly fine,” he says.

“What’s going on here?” I don’t see him, but I know it’s Finn asking the question.

“He says he’s sick,” Luc states.

“Are you sick? Because we need you on the ice. There’s a big game tomorrow night,” he reminds.

Fuck. I don’t want to let my team down. I throw my covers off. I was up most of the night, trying to process that Briar is having my baby. I just feel so lost, but I couldn’t show her that last night because she’s the one with a baby inside her. I tried to be as supportive as possible.

“I’ll get ready. You guys can leave without me,” I tell them. They don’t need to be late on my account.

“Okay, we’re out,” Finn says, and he walks away.

Luc continues to watch me carefully. “But what is actually wrong with you?”

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