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“No! Well, sort of, but not like you and the wonder boys.” Kassie rolled her eyes. “I ran into him at my brother’s place after that night at Mario’s. It was weird. He kept cornering me—”
“And you liked it.” Quinn smirked.
“Shut up.” I did. She refused to admit that to anyone, even Quinn. The way he had cornered her, towering over her and looking at her with that full-of-himself, devilish smirk. It made her knees weak and her insides turn to jelly. “I had baby food in my hair and looked a mess. It was terrible. Kaden did catch him trying to flirt with me a few times and asked if Luc was bothering me. My brother didn’t like what he saw at all. And that’s exactly why I can’t start anything with Luc.”
“But?”
“Well… he texted me one night after their game in New York.”
“Wait! You gave him your number?” Quinn’s mouth gaped open. “You didn’t tell me that.”
“Yeah.” Kassie sighed. “I didn’t think much of it. I mean, he’s an athlete, and I don’t date athletes. So, what harm could it do?”
“Alright girl, what in the world is your hang-up with athletes? I mean, hello, they are muscular, they have stamina, and did I mention the muscles?” Quinn drifted off into thought.
“My brother always warned me that I wasn’t allowed to date any of his teammates, and when I was younger I had no desire to. They were stinky and gross, and just like all other boys that age, they were crude. As I got older, the attention they showed me was kind of nice. Kaden noticed and warned me again. He cited the ‘guy code’. That guys don’t mess with their friend’s sisters.”
“Is that all? Just ’cause Kaden said you couldn’t, you didn’t?”
“Hell no. You know me better than that. I don’t really like to be told what to do. Anyway, in high school, there was this lacrosse player. He wasn’t on Kaden’s hockey team, and he wasn’t one of Kaden’s friends. And I figured what Kaden didn’t know wouldn’t hurt him. The kid was a cutie. Blonde hair, blue eyes, kind of hot.” She stopped for a moment to remember her first real crush. Simon? No. Was it Sean? Seth? Stan?
“I remember those kinds of boys. Pretty boys. Once you got them out of their khakis they were naughtier than pretty.” Quinn had a knack for turning any conversation into something dirty.
Kassie sighed and shook her head before she continued. “Anyway, I’d go to his games, and cheer for him from the stands. Then we’d go out after. But it was always with his teammates, and all they did was talk about the game. Then on the rare occasion that we’d get some time alone, he’d have an earbud in his ear, following some lacrosse game. It wasn’t glamorous, and it wasn’t fun. He was a star in his own mind, and had plenty of girls waiting for him to leave me.”
Kassie shook her head, remembering her breaking point. “I had enough the one day we were driving to school. My lipstick rolled under the front seat, and as I searched for it, I also pulled out a bra that wasn’t mine. Turns out his life revolved around not only lacrosse, like I thought. He also liked the groupies. He couldn’t even remember which girl that bra belonged to.”
“Oh…Ouch.”
“Yep. That’s what athletes do. It’s all about the game and the fangirls.”
Quinn waved a potato chip in the air, trying to accent the importance of what she was about to say. “But, what about people like your brother? He found his happily ever after.”
Kassie had no answer. It was a good point. It wasn’t only her brother who was happily married to his soul mate. Dom had found his, and so many others on the Renegades had as well. Her insides twisted at the fact that Quinn had just pointed out the one loophole in her otherwise airtight reasoning.
“But he texted you? Maybe he’s interested?”
Kassie shook her head. “No.” Forgetting everything she’d just admitted to Quinn, she went back to her steadfast motto. She didn’t date athletes. “He just wanted to talk. Then he asked me to lunch. I have no idea why I agreed, but I did.”
“And you’ve been holding out on me! I expected at least a phone call about any of this! A whole week went by, and you’re just telling me now? Jeez, I thought we were friends.” She gave Kassie a look.
Whatever Quinn intended with that look, Kassie took it, because she could tell Quinn all day long that she didn’t date athletes, but she knew the truth was written all over her face. She liked Luc.
“Oh please, Quinn. You were busy with the boys.”
Quinn took a second to think about that, then nodded. “Oh yeah, I totally was. Okay. Go on.”
“Against my better judgement, I went to lunch. Then we went bowling—”
“Bowling? First, you’re spending a lot of time with an athlete, when you don’t do athletes, and second, who goes bowling anymore?”
“Does that really matter? Quinn, I spent almost the whole day with him! And it was fun! And you’re focused on bowling?”
“So? What? You like this guy.”
“Yes.” As soon as she said the word, she wanted to take it back. She shook her head frantically. “No. Does it matter? I can’t like him. No. I told you that big bro was already getting protective when Luc was just flirting with me. If Kaden knew Luc was calling me and we were spending the day hanging out, he would lose his damn mind.”
“Does he have to know?” Quinn asked calmly, as she finished her sandwich.
