Page 41 of Fostering Chemistry
That got my attention. Who was Suzanne, and how well did he know her? "Where are you accompanying her to?"
He smiled slightly. "I’m accompanying her on the piano. She’s trying out for first chair violin."
"Oh." That made more sense.
Aaron was frustrated. "How about Jenna?"
"She’s already gone for the weekend," Diego said. "She and Seth went down to Atlanta."
"Evan? Raymond?" Aaron kept trying.
"I haven’t seen them today,” I said. And I hoped it stayed that way, even though Evan seemed like a nice guy. He seemed very young, even for a freshman. And spending the afternoon with Raymond was definitely not my idea of fun.
"It’s got to be you," Aaron said, turning to Diego.
Diego took off his glasses, looking like Clark Kent turning into Superman. "I told you, I’ve got a paper due."
"Weren’t you the one who told us to get our asses off the couch and do something outside the living room?” Aaron persisted. “Doesn’t the same apply to you, too?”
"When was my ass on the couch?" Diego asked, and memories came flooding back to me. Sitting on his lap, grinding myself against him. Oh god, I needed to stop thinking about that.
"It’s okay, Aaron.” It seemed like I’d said that a lot in the last ten minutes.
"I want you to do this, Mia. Besides, the prizes are great."
He likely had a point there. Most people at the school were so rich the prize was probably a Lamborghini or something.
Aaron looked directly at Diego. "If you don’t go with her, she can’t go."
I opened my mouth to say yet again that it was okay, but it was clear that for whatever reason, this was important to Aaron. I exchanged a glance with Diego. He knew it, too.
With a sigh, he closed his book. "All right. Where do we have to go?"
Except, as it turned out, that was the wrong question. Because the first thing we had to do was somehow find Halloween costumes in the next half hour.
To my surprise, Diego said he had something he could wear.
"You have a Halloween costume?" He hadn’t been wearing one at that party.
"No, but I’ve lived in this house for three years. I have a bunch of crap in my room. I’ll find something."
Aaron looked relieved that something was finally working out. "How about you? Do you have anything?"
Again, I thought of those cat ears and the little black dress I’d worn at the party. I definitely wasn’t admitting to that.
"Maybe Jenna does,” Cody suggested.
"She’s gone for the weekend."
Aaron jumped on the idea. "But maybe she’s got something you can borrow. Again, it just has to be a bare minimum of a costume. If nothing else, you can go as a digital communications major."
Well, at least I did, presumably, look like one of those. "All right, I’ll text Jenna."
To my surprise, she called back right away.
"Hey, we’re driving. I just got your message. And I’ve got the perfect thing. It’s going to look great on you."
"You do? It is?"
