Page 13 of Imperfections Forbidden
“I’m not going until I find out why you don’t sound like the Ava I know.I mean it.You’re going to ruin my weekend if you don’t tell me.”
I hear her sigh.Nick leaves the kitchen and goes into his office, which is convenient because this way I don’t have to leave the room to talk to Ava.
“It’s your brother.”
“My brother?Chris?”
“Remember the night I had to drive him home from the club?”
“Yes, I couldn’t believe he agreed to get into a car alone with you.”
“Me either.”
“Are you sure you didn’t have to club him over the head with a super human rush of adrenaline at the mere thought of having your way with him, and drag him into the car?”
We both laugh at the mental picture that conjures up.
“I am not that bad.Am I?”
“Yes.I’ve never seen you come on so aggressively toward a man like you do with Chris; I’ve never seen you work so hard to get a man’s attention.”
“You make me sound desperate and unattractive.”
“You!You could never be unattractive.Remember the time in college you dragged me to that frat party when I came to visit you?”I hear the dreamy sound in her voice.
“Oh yeah, at Derek’s fraternity house.”
I see I have to bring her back down, give her a reminder of who Ava’s ex really was.I never met a bigger asshole in a better looking package.
“Six two, blond hair, dark green eyes, and chiseled from head to toe.The star of my wet dreams the first two months of my freshman year.”
I roll my eyes up to the ceiling and continue to listen to her.
“Until I met him and my dreams became a reality.My Ken come to life.”
“Yeah, straight from the dream house, until he turned into Mr.Potato Head,” I remind her, insulting Mr.Potato Head at the same time.
“I got so drunk I threw up on myself.Not my best moment.”
“No.We couldn’t find Derek, so you had to walk back to your dorm room in your pink- and-black lace corset bra.”
“When we opened the door, there he was, butt naked under my big-ass cunt roommate.She’s lucky I didn’t cut her and rip all of her fake-ass bleach blond hair out.”
“It was funny as hell the way you whaled on her.The shock on Derek’s face when you almost stabbed him with the letter opener was priceless.He didn’t count on you getting violent.”
“He got lucky.”
“You’re lucky they didn’t press charges,” I say, thinking back.“I never noticed it before, but you do have a violent streak.”
“Much like my cousin, it’s only when I feel deeply passionate about something.It’s never directed toward those who aren’t deserving of it.”
“You and your cousin, Lord help me.”They are a family of brawlers.I would not like to be the unlucky person on the receiving end of Ava or Nick’s bad temper.
“She didn’t even look better than me.”
I’ve heard this before, and I was thinking the same thing.“She definitely didn’t look better than you.”
“If you’re going to cheat, the person you’re cheating with should look better than the person you’re with, that would make sense,” she reasons.
