“Oh.” I was pretty much a hundred percent sure that the cockblocking in question was related to me. “Actually, that doesn’t surprise me that much. I have gotten kind of, um… Creepy vibes from him at times.”
“Really?” She asked, sounding surprised. “You never said anything.”
“There wasn’t much to tell,” I admitted. “Just a weird feeling.”
“Anyway,” she started again. “The reason I meant to mention it to you is because once he started describing that other alpha, I was pretty sure he was talking about Kieran! Did he say anything to you about getting into a fight with Andrew?”
Clearing my throat, I glanced up at the ceiling. “Well, no, it wasn’t exactly like that.”
“You were there?” She asked, then her brown eyes widened to the size of saucers. “Wait, were you the omega he was trying to get with!?”
“I think so,” I said, trying not to snort as her mouth dropped open in a comical expression of shock. “He’s been sort of flirting with me sometimes at the center and then at the party he was getting pretty handsy.”
“What the fuck, Jordy? Why didn’t you tell me?”
“I don’t know, it’s kind of embarrassing and gross. I didn’t even want to think about it, let alone talk about it.”
“So you’re not into him like that?” She determined.
“Definitely not,” I said, giving an exaggerated shudder. I was trying to keep the mood light, but if I was being honest, Andrew gave me a vulnerable feeling I wasn’t used to and I really didn’t like it.
“Wait, wait,” she said suddenly, shaking her head. “So Kieran got in a fight with Andrew overyou?”
“Um… They didn’t actually fight or anything. They just kind of growled and snapped at each other and then Kieran took me home.”
“And did you make googly eyes at Kieran on the way home for rescuing you?”
“What!? No,” I lied, feeling a blush rising to my cheeks. “What are you even talking about?”
“Come on. You’ve had a crush on him since we were kids.”
“Yeah, but… I mean… It’s not like he likes me back or anything.” I wasn’t exactly even sure about that part anymore. “I mean… Probably.”
“If he doesn’t like you back, then why would he care about some other alpha hitting on you? And for that matter, why would he always check out your butt when you aren’t looking?” Sheasked, giving me a comically pointed expression, like she was demanding me to give her a serious answer.
“Shut up,” I hissed, covering my face. She’d brought it up before, that she’d caught Kieran staring at me when I wasn’t looking, but I hadn’t exactly believed her. Now, her claims were starting to sound a whole lot more plausible. “If my parents hear you, they’re going to send me away to boarding school or something.”
“We’re not even in school anymore, Jordy.”
“You know what I mean,” I insisted. “They would completely freak out.”
“Okay, sorry.”
“So… I kind of need to tell you something that I haven’t told you yet.”
“More!?” She gasped, yanking my hands away from my face so I had no choice but to look at her and made a show of shaking me by the shoulders in an exaggerated gesture. “Please tell me something sexy happened.”
Somewhat sheepishly, I recounted the night Kieran had come home drunk. I was honest about basically everything, even the graphic parts, but I couldn’t bring myself to talk about him calling meangel. It felt too intimate, for reasons I couldn’t exactly articulate in my head. But it felt like kind of a betrayal to him to blab about it to other people. Like he’d shared this private thing that was only meant for me to know.
“Wait. He actually touched it?” She interrupted me to clarify, jerking her chin down toward my crotch.
“It was more than a touch.”
“Oh my god. Did you, like, finish?”
I coughed into my hand a little bit. “Uh, yeah.”
“You’re so bad!”
