Page 88 of This is Me

“I peed a little,” Trent said with a sigh, and both Cooper and I looked at him with raised eyebrows. “What? I’m smaller than both of you, and he is an enormous human.”

“Seriously, though, are you okay?” Cooper asked me, shaking his head at Trent who shrugged his shoulders.

“Yes, I’m fine—” I started but was cut off by another familiar voice.

“Jesus, Pete. Could you have picked a more secluded spot?”

I looked away from Trent and past Cooper to see Blaire do a little skip toward us, a broad smile plastered on her face as she scanned our small group.

“I like the trees,” I said, replicating Blaire’s smile, though she was no longer looking at me.

Following her line of sight, I saw it had fallen on Cooper.

“Hi! I’m Blaire!” She said brightly, holding out her hand for Cooper to take, which he did.

“I know.” Cooper grinned, continuing to hold Blaire’s hand. Neither of them letting go, and neither of them shaking. “I’m Cooper.”

“Hi, Cooper. I’m Blaire,” Blaire repeated. Her cheeks quickly flushing red as she finally dropped Cooper’s hand.

“Oh, for the love of fuck,” I muttered, rolling my eyes and looking toward the ground.

“I’m so confused,” Trent whispered, leaning toward me, and I shook my head.

“Don’t worry. I’m just gonna break this up before it becomes a train wreck.”

Pushing myself off the wall, I stepped forward and came in between Blaire and Cooper as both of them had begun blushing furiously.

I missed something.

“I love your hair,” Blaire said, running her hand through her own hair, and Cooper’s blush became more crimson.

“Thanks! My mum actually did it for me. She’s a hairdresser.” Cooper smiled, and I looked from one to the other.

Blaire was handling herself rather well. I had seen the look she now held in her eyes before when she saw a boy that she found attractive, and it never ended well. Her usual badass self became a blundering fool who could barely string a sentence together and continuously stumbled over her words.

She may have looked like a tomato at the moment, but at least she wasn’t making a fool of herself. Yet, anyway.

“Trent is also here,” Trent said suddenly, and I stopped myself from laughing. “In case you wanted to say hello to him, too.”

“She can’t hear you,” I said, turning back to face Trent. “She is only focusing on Cooper. Trust me.”

“Why?”

“She finds Cooper attractive.”

“How can you tell?”

“Because her ovaries are expanding,” I said sarcastically, gesturing toward Blaire. “Seriously, though. You can’t tell me you don’t see the eye-boner Blaire has for Cooper right now.”

“I… I have no idea what that means,” Trent confessed with a chuckle.

“You know, like, heart-eyes.”

I was horrible with my words.

“You know what? I like eye-boner better.”

Trent and I both grinned at each other as we watched Blaire and Cooper continue to whisper with each other. It was a little weird seeing a friend I had known for years interacting with the one I had just met. It was even more bizarre to see them flirting and to see how much Blaire was blushing.