Page 20 of Meet You in the Waves
CHAPTER 9
nick
So, Ajay now knew everything about me. He knew I liked guys and he knew I’d been in a relationship with one of my best friends. The one who was currently sending me some seriously mixed messages as he glared over the fire at me sitting beside Ajay. If I didn’t know better I would think he was jealous. And yet he was the one standing there trying to hold a chick’s hand and convince himself he could be with her.
Either way, not my problem anymore. Unlike the seriously gorgeous, oh-so sexy guy sitting beside me, so close his shoulder was grazing mine as I stole another sip from his bottle of beer. Something about sharing a bottle with Ajay was making my insides flare with heat. Especially when mixed with the look of sheer surprise on his pretty face when I’d casually mentioned my sexuality to him.
I was trying to ignore the little hint of something else I’d seen on his face. Something that might have looked a bit likeinterest.Maybe I’d imagined it. Either way I was pretty sure I’d planted a few other ideas in his sweet little innocent head, and who was I to stop him from undertaking a little soul searching.
I was just thinking of a way to offer up the full suite of my friendship services to him when the object of my deepest, darkest repulsion suddenly appeared in front of him.
“There you are,” Kira stated, a little tipsy already as she swayed on her feet. She was looking at Ajay like he was her favourite dessert and I felt a growing wave of hostility bubbling up inside me towards this unworthy girl.
Especially when her eyes flung my way, taking an overly obvious eyeful of my chest and biceps before landing on my face. It wasn’t anything her boyfriend hadn’t already looked at a hundred times before but I didn’t like it when she looked at me that way. I knew girls like her, had had my fair share of batting away their unwelcome interest over the years. What I did resent though, was having this particular girl’s eyes on me when they should be focused on the gorgeous, sexy boy she already had. The one she clearly did not deserve.
“Hello,” she fluttered coquettishly at me as she lowered herself onto Ajay, straddling his waist in a manner I assumed she thought would interest me.
“Kira,” I replied with as much acid as I could muster. She did some flirty thing with her tongue grazing over her teeth, looking me over while pawing at Ajay’s chest. This chick was lucky looks didn’t actually kill because I was pretty sure she might be dead by now.
“Dane didn’t tell me he had an older brother,” Kira purred, emphasis on theolder,like my additional years was some prize.
“We don’t like to talk about it,” I replied, sharing a glance with Ajay when he huffed out a laugh.
“Are you going to come dance with me,” she said to Ajay instead, a little pout on her face, her long fingers rubbing down his chest in a way that had me wanting to growl at her. Geez, calm down, Nick.
He’s not yours.
“Nope,” Ajay returned. “I’m perfectly happy sitting here watching.”
“Fine. Be like that,” Kira pouted, eyes back on me as she leaned forward to plant a kiss on Ajay’s lips. How I had ever thought she was beautiful was beyond me. Hate wasn’t a word I spent much time in company with but I was feeling all sorts of nasty emotions towards this girl who was blatantly flirting with me right in front of her boyfriend. The boy I so happened to be having a few of my own slightly complicated emotions towards.
Kira climbed back to her feet, flicked her long hair over her shoulder and sauntered back towards where the girls were still dancing to the music. Rob and Kat were there too, him with his hands on her waist and I hoped he got lucky tonight. He’d had his eye on Kat for ages now.
Ajay had gone quiet beside me and I sieved through some random thoughts about what to say.
“Sometimes I really thank the universe that I’m gay,” I stated instead, trying to lighten the mood.
Ajay just glanced at me, a smile on his face before he burst out with one of those laughs I wanted to bottle and keep. “You may be onto something there.”
“Far less drama,” I returned with a smug little grin. “Not to mention no unwanted pregnancies.”
“Not all girls are drama,” Ajay had to go and rationally add, head knocked in Dee’s way.
“Okay, you have me there,” I conceded.
“You ever tried it?” Ajay asked quietly, eyes flicked my way. “Being with a girl?”
“Once,” I told him, a little inward grimace at the awkward teenage memory. “I think I just wanted to make doubly sure I was as gay as I already knew I was.”
“And? Did she convince you?”
“Absolutely solidified it,” I grinned. “It might have been the fact I could hardly get it up for her that did it too. Had to close my eyes and picture Henry Cavill the whole time.”
“Serious?” Ajay asked, amusement crossing his face.
“A hundred percent,” I conceded, watching as the fire danced in his deep brown eyes, making them look like a fathomless pool. And oh look, now I was waxing poetic. Maybe I’d had a few too many of those beers. Or maybe it was just this guy and his hypnotic company sending me insane.
“What was her name?” he asked.
