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“Shall I go back to school and tell everyone you like unicorns and keep fuzzy pink dice in your truck?” she asked.
A laugh burst out of me at that surprise reply. “Okay, you’ve made your point. You have the power, my queen. Please, for the love of all things I hold dear–”
“Your dick for one?” she asked seamlessly.
All thought was shocked out of my head. I turned to look at her and knew I looked like a stunned mullet, complete with smoke hanging from my lips. I grabbed the smoke and snubbed in beside me, not taking my eyes off her.
“Who the hell are you?” I breathed, totally in awe of the young woman next to me.
She’d kept me at half mast since she’d opened her mouth that night, but I was at half mast no longer.
She buried her face in her knees and mumbled, “Sorry,” into them.
I huffed a laugh. “Oh no. None of that bullshit, Barlow. That was nothing to apologise for.”
“I shouldn’t have said it,” she whispered.
“Try saying something else uncomplimentary about me,” I prompted.
If this was Piper Barlow out of her box, I certainly had a preference. Not that I was going to tell her that.
Her head rolled to the side and she looked at me. “What?”
I nodded at her. “Go on. What would you say to me if you were going to be completely honest with me?”
She looked out over the lake, chewing her lip as she thought. “I don’t… Nothing. I wouldn’t say anything.”
I only partially believed her this time and knew I need to push some more buttons.
“True. You and your lack of spine would probably not say anything. If we – for one second – pretend that you do have a spine, what would you say?”
Her mouth opened and closed a few times before she breathed out in frustration. “You’re not very complimentary, yourself.”
“You don’t seem to like my compliments,” I reminded her.
“I… You don’t compliment me.”
I nodded. “Because you don’t like it.”
“Fine. You give me something complimentary and I’ll give you something uncomplimentary.”
I lit another smoke. If I was going to do this, I needed a little courage.
“All right. A proper compliment, hey?” I asked to stall for time.
There were so many things I could say to her. True and honest things. I wasn’t the kind of guy to compliment true and honest things. I’d tell a chick she was sexy. I’d tell her she made me hard. I’d tell her what her body did to me. Whatever was going to make her into spreading her legs for me.
This wasn’t one of those times.
I took a deep drag of my smoke and prepared for the nanciestwords I think had ever passed my lips. “All right. Your eyes look crazy beautiful when you get embarrassed giggly. That’s the one time I see you these days.”
I expected some witty response. Some teasing about me being so…sincere.Ugh. But nothing. I felt her eyes on me, but couldn’t look at her.
“I’m waiting on this uncompliment, Barlow.”
“I’m going to need more before I let that pass as a compliment,” she finally said.
I huffed and lay back down. Weirdly, I didn’t mind expanding. Not for her. “In what way?”
