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She cringed like the thought of spending time with him was repulsive. “Is that necessary?”
“We need to be seen together. If we just avoid each other all the time, people are going to catch on. We’ve got to create a scandal and convince your sister we’re actually together. That’s what you want, right?”
She pursed her lips, hesitating. “I guess.”
He might’ve gone into more detail about the ways they could be seen together, but his entire body froze up when they were interrupted by the clacking of shoes on the tile in the hallway right outside the bathroom.
His reaction got Tulsa’s attention too, because her stoic eyes widened in alert and flicked to the door behind him.
Without a word, she grabbed his sleeve and yanked him so he was forced to follow her to the very last stall. She closed the door and snapped the lock into place, officially secluding them together in the narrow stall as the bathroom door swung open.
Truth was, it wasn’t Nathan’s first time with a girl in a bathroom stall. But it was the first time he was worried about being caught in case the school told his dad and it hurt his case of getting his support.
They listened carefully as the restroom intruder’s steps walked towards the mirrors, and there was rustling. In his mind, he imagined whoever it was fixing their hair or about to wash their hands.
On cue, the sink turned on.
At this time of day, it was more likely to be a teacher than a student.
However, the threat of being caught wasn’t as intimidating to him as the amusement from looking down at Tulsa’s face.
Who knew that her wide, brown eyes combined with her anxiously nibbling on her bottom lip would be as funny as he found it. A minute ago she was putting on this careless face, all collected and intimidating, and now her hands were tightly holding onto his sleeve in worry.
She wasn’t the type to normally do something wrong. There was that goody valedictorian in her sticking out like a sore thumb, and Nathan couldn’t bite back the urge to tease her.
She looked more like the girl he met in his bedroom.
“I thought you said no one comes here,” he whispered, knowing full well what he was doing.
She jumped, and her eyes met his so he could see her entire copper irises. Her mouth dropped open, and her hand covered his mouth with a resonating slap.
He grinned into her palm and—for her sake—bit back the laugh that bubbled in his chest.
They were closer now, nearly chest to chest.
Their faces—inches apart.
They’d stood like this before—without her hand of course.
The image of her looking up at him in front of his bedroom window popped into his head, and he found a similar expression on her face now.
Her brows furrowed, not out of anger or surprise, but more like curiosity. Her lips parted.
And then she flung backward, and her hand fell off him as she put an impossible two feet of space between them in the tiny cubicle. It resulted in the loudest, echoing bang to ring throughout the room as her head hit the metal stall wall.
“Damn,” Tulsa hissed quietly, and her hand covered the part of her skull that had made such an atomic sound.
Even sink water wasn’t loud enough to cover that up.
The water turned off, and the entire room fell silent. No steps, no movement.
All three of them stood still and waited for the other to make a sound.
Nathan bit down painfully hard onto his tongue because the urge to burst out laughing was becoming unbearable.
Tulsa could tell, from the way she shook her head rapidly.
Her lips silently formed the word ‘please’ over and over again, begging him to not make a sound. Her hands clasped together, just like they had earlier in the classroom, and she was giving him the same puppy-dog eyes she had when she asked for his help.
