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Of course, he does. “What do you want to change?”
There’s a mischievous glint in his eyes as he says, “I only want to hear things about you.”
15
Aiden
She’s staring at me like I just asked her to get naked and run through the train. “Come on, Claire. We’ll be sitting here for a while, might as well get to know each other, right?”
I want to know more about her, and I’m trying not to worry about why that is—probably because I don’t have my headphones with me. Sitting here in silence for the last fifteen minutes was driving me crazy; there’s no way I could take, however many hours we have left, with her not speaking to me.
“Okay...” she says slowly, still looking more concerned than anything else. This girl needs to relax. “Um...Have you heard that I once ate an entire chocolate cake for a bet?”
This is not what I was expecting, so I let out a laugh. Looking her up and down, I try to figure out where she’d even put an entire cake.
“Well?” she asks, and I realize I’ve been checking her out.
I sit up straighter and hope she didn’t notice. “There’s no way you ate an entire cake.”
Her smile widens and she shakes her head. “No, that’s a fact. I was in middle school, but it definitely happened.”
I can’t help grinning at her. “Impressive.” Why the hell am I smiling so much? The gesture feels completely natural and scary as fuck all at the same time.
“Your turn.”
“Did you hear drinking tequila increases your IQ?”
She shakes her head. “Nice try. If I have to tell you things about me, you have to tell me things about you.”
Shit.
I didn’t think this far ahead.
I’m about to tell her something true about me, but at the last minute, I change my mind. “Sometimes I take the tip money from tables at restaurants.”
Her face immediately falls.
I knew she thought I was a piece of shit. Making sure not to give anything away, I stare back at her with a blank expression.
She thinks it over for way too long before finally saying, “Fiction?”
The question in her voice makes me roll my eyes. “Yeah, it’s fiction. Jesus.” I give her a swift nod. “You’re up.”
She seems to relax now that she knows I’m not a fucking thief. Tucking a strand of hair behind her ear, she fights a smile. “I once got drunk and stripped at a frat party.”
“There’s no way that’s the truth.” Even as I say the words, the back of my mind buzzes at the thought. Claire letting loose at a party? It shouldn’t, but imagining a wild side of her excites something inside of me.
“How did you know?” She gapes at me. “You didn’t even have to think about it!”
I shake my head, clearing my thoughts. “Claire, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you’re a terrible liar.”
She bites down on her lip with a smile. “Okay, maybe that one was far-fetched. I’ll make the next lie more believable.”
I laugh because her last lie would have been more than believable for most of the girls I know. It just wasn’t believable coming from her.
I think for a moment. “Have you heard that I’ve hooked up with a different girl every week for the past year?”
I’m not sure why I say it...or why I care about getting to know her and her opinion of me.
