Page 256 of Rock Me All Night
“Which is it? Because I’d like to know now if this is just sex. Do you want to be with me or not?”
His gaze goes to the ground. "I told you before. I'm not good with relationships."
"Yeah, but, it's me. We've been friends since forever."
He makes eye contact. "I don't know. I can't think straight when it comes to you."
"But why?" My heartbeat speeds. "If you don't want a girlfriend then what is there to think about?"
"I didn't say that." Drew’s eyes find mine. "I fuck women up. That doesn't mean I don't want to be with you."
"But do you?" I ask.
He presses his hips against mine, pinning me to the wall. "What do you think?"
I bite my lip. He knows I was asking about more than sex. He's not going to answer me.
Drew's hands slide over my cheek. "Why don't you talk to me about your mom?"
"Why don't you talk to me about why you're not 'good with relationships' or why it is you can't think straight when it comes to me? Or maybe why you're dodging questions about what this means by trying to fuck me?"
There are footsteps coming toward us. Tom or Pete, probably. Which means Drew is done having this conversation. God forbid someone think we're together.
Drew steps back. Big surprise. The affection-repelling footsteps belong to Tom, apparently. Never mind that Tom knows exactly what's going on. Anyone could put the pieces together at this point.
He nods to me. "I think Pete has your drink inside."
"Thank you. It's hot out here. I'm going to go find that."
"Kara." Drew says it with this pained voice like it's just killing him I'm not willing to entertain this bullshit.
Like it's just killing him that I want more thanI'm not good at relationships.
I round the corner.
Tom says something that sounds a lot like, "What the fuck do you think you're doing?"
I brush it off.
Inside, Meg is sucking down her iced green tea instead of sucking on Miles's face. She takes one look at me and shakes her head.
"Let's get out of here, huh?" she offers.
"Good thinking." I grab my drink and take a very long sip.
She waves to Miles. "I'll see you later."
"Babe—"
"I can't study here anyway." She makes goo-goo eyes at him. "You'll get me all day tomorrow. I promise."
"I warned you about the caffeine allegiance," I say.
He nods. "Babe, I give you something much better than caffeine."
"Yeah. We've all heard it." Pete waves goodbye to us and turns back to Miles. "You want to put out the fire or you want to give 'em ten minutes to cool off?"
"Make it twenty," Miles says. "Drew has been extra pissy since thatGuitar Herobusiness."
"Can’t blame him.Guitar Herois played."
Miles shrugs. "He’d be in a better mood if he–" Miles turns to me with an apologetic shrug. "Nevermind."
Meg pushes the door open and motions for me to follow. "Come on. You can't wait for them to stop acting stupid. It will never happen."
