“Miles isn’t ugly either,” I say. It’s the truth. Miles is good-looking. He has blond hair, just like Aaron, maybe a bit darker. His eyes are blue instead of green. He doesn’t have freckles, but I don’t think they’d suit him anyway.
Miles has a sharp jawline, cheekbones that could cut you. His face is a bit too symmetrical for my liking, but he’s still handsome.
But Aaron has all that too… not thetoosymmetrical face, but he’s nearly perfection.
Yes, Sofia, keep comparing guys to Aaron. You always looked for reasons to dislike someone.
Lily looks toward the ice again, mumbling something unintelligible as she scans the players to find Colin. “Before Colin and I were dating, he hated Miles being around me. Not when Colin was there, too, but you know, when Miles was alone with me.”
Can’t blame him. The first week of me staying at the dorms, I’ve had tons of other girls warn me off of Miles, said he’d only use one for sex and then disappear. I’m not sure if the rumors are true, but as far as I can tell, he’s busy taking care of his daughter all day. There’s no time for fucking everyone on campus.
“But you only said Grey to annoy Aaron, didn’t you?”
Sighing, I nod. It’s useless to lie to Lily. Sometimes I think she has developed the ability to read minds because as it seems, she always knows exactly what I want to say or how I feel.
We spend the rest of the game not talking about Aaron and me anymore, not that there is an Aaron and me. Lily made up her own mind about us, and no matter what I will tell her, she won’t stop holding on to what she believes. She’s always been stubborn like that, doubt it has changed.
When someone starts knocking on the tempered glass, I first think it’s Aaron to tell us practice is over, but I’m surprised to find it’s Colin.
He nods at Lily, and when I look at her, I find her smiling brighter than the sun.
Colin yells something, but it’s almost incoherent with all the sounds in the arena, the glass between him and us and his helmet that also has yet another layer of resistance plastic.
Immediately, Lily shoots up from her seat and jogs over to the extra door that leads to the ice. It opens, only for Colin to pop his head out.
He takes off his helmet, then quickly presses his lips to Lily’s before he gets yelled at for doing anything but participating on the ice by his own father.
The sight of them being so disgustingly in love makes me nauseous. I’m happy for them, truly, but being this crazy in love sure has everyone around them roll their eyes.
And yet I can’t help but wonder when it’s finally going to be my turn. When willIfind this kind of love? The gut-wrenching, feel-good kind of love I read and write about.
24
Sofia
“if we walk down this road / we’ll be lovers for sure”—The Other Side by Jason Derulo
“Aaron, we’re going to missour goddamn flight!” I yell at him as I speed through the airport, only ever looking back to see whether he’s following or not.
He is… in slow-fucking-motion.
If there’s one thing I would not like to deal with, it’s my outraged father when I tell him that I missed yet another flight. He was close to chopping off my head when I missed my flight to get to New York, imagine what he will do if I have to tell him I missed the one back home as well.
This time it wouldn’t be my fault though. It would be Aaron’s and Aaron’s alone.Iwanted to get here hours earlier,hesaid ten minutes before boarding will do.
Clearly it will not fucking do.
They called out for the end of boarding ten minutes ago, that leaves us with approximately five more minutes to get to our gate and on the plane. If it’s not too late already.
“Chill, Icicle, it’s just a flight. We’ll take the next one then,” Aaron says as he—finally—catches up with me. “Besides, we’re not boarding like normal passengers.”
What the hell is that even supposed to mean? Just because he got us first class tickets doesn’t mean the airline gave us some VIP passes that allow us to catch up with the plane mid-air.
“What are you talking about?”
Aaron shrugs.
A minute later we finally reach the check-in and I’m quick to realize that it’s too late.Fartoo late. Even if they’re still boarding passengers, check-in will take some time.
