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“Total creeps. Not all guys are like that, you know.”
“Some are the white knight types, like yourselves?”
“Yeah I guess we are.”
I maintained eye contact.
“You’re Brooke, right?” Trey asked.
“Yeah.” I turned to face him. “You remembered.”
“You really helped with my knee.”
“Good. Sports medicine is my dream.” I turned to Austin. “Thanks again, but I need to get home. My roommate is probably worried sick.”
“I’ll walk you the rest of the way,” he said.
“That’s not necessary.”
Shut-up! Let him do it!
“I insist.” He turned to Trey. “I’ll see you guys at practice tomorrow.”
“Don’t stay out too late,” Trey, said as he held out his fist.
“For sure,” Austin said, bumping the fist with his own.
As the others took off down the path toward the direction the frat boys had gone, Austin turned to me. He still had that cocky grin on his face as if everything always went his way.
“Do you live close?”
I nodded.
“Not too much farther. You really don’t need to walk with me.”
“Brooke, it’s fine. I want to walk with you.”
“Thanks,” I said, trying to keep the butterflies in my stomach. I needed to figure out a way to repay him. And my lips wanted everything to do with it.
TWO
Brooke
We walked side by side, a thousand thoughts running through my mind.
“You’re quiet,” he said.
“Oh, not usually. I mean, I am when I meet someone the first time, but not when I get to know them. This whole situation is super weird. Ugh. And now I’m rambling.”
He laughed.
“Breathe. You’re fine now.”
The way he said it made me want to believe him.
“You guys are having a great season,” I said, trying to make small talk.
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