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“First time away from home?” She started to shake her head until he added. “Trips don’t count. I’m talking aboutlivingaway from mommy and daddy.”
Pursing her lips at the pretention in his tone again, Vannah nodded. “It is,” she agreed with caution.
“You’re a beautiful—” He stopped and cleared his throat glancing away as Vannah’s insides went wild. “You’re a pretty girl. I take it you’ve had a boyfriend?”
“I was in a relationship in high school.”
“So, let me guess, now that you’re out here—an out-of-towny—you don’t do the relationship thing anymore?”
Confused by this line of questioning, despite her still dancing insides, Vannah shook her head. “All I said was I don’t have a boyfriend.”
“Butdoyou do the boyfriend thing?” He turned to face her full on as they reached a red light.
Feeling a little ruffled because she finally got what he was getting at, and he was right. She hated to admit it, but he’d already labeled her a liar, so she decided just to be honest. “No, I don’t. Not right now.” He chuckled in that way he had earlier, sounding more annoyed or even disgusted than amused. “I’m trying to focus on my grades and getting all my ducks in a row.”
“So, you just havefriends, not boyfriends. Multiplefriendsyou don’t owe explanations to about what you do withotherfriends. Do you meet them all at these frat parties?”
“This is the first frat party I’ve ever been to, okay? And it’ll likely be my last given how this one turned out.”
Vannah had never gone from feeling so excited to so annoyed in a matter of sentences in a conversation with anyone in her life. This wassonot what she thought her first conversation with Byron would be like. The only thing she’d hit right on the nose is how intense a conversation with him might be. He was quiet for a little too long, so she turned to look at him just as the light turned green and they were moving again. To her surprise, she turned just in time to see his jaw clench then unclench.
