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Istop for a second after slamming Leighton’s front door behind me. I’m half expecting her to run after me and tell me that she hasn’t slept with Adam. That she’s never let anyone touch her besides me. That she belongs to me. But then I remember my stubborn, sassy, sexier than sin best friend doesn’t run after anyone. It’s why men go crazy for her.
It’s why I’m crazy for her.
I jog down her steps towards my Jeep before casting one last glance towards her front door. I’d barely thrown up a hand towards her roommate who was sitting on their couch with quite literally a cup of tea, ready to hear the latest in the Leighton and Everett saga. Skyler Mitchell is more perceptive than most and caught on to our dirty little secret within seconds of meeting us, which led to me bribing her with a years’ worth of Starbucks to keep her thoughts to herself. She’s the president of the “Leighton and Everett love each other” committee and made a point to call us out on it every time I try to sneak out of Leighton’s bedroom.
Or when we have our sleepovers.
But she spent the first semester here banging her professor, so she isn’t really in any place to judge anyone for inappropriate relationships.
You’re not in a relationship with Leigh, douchebag, my mind screams at me, and my dick immediately protests. Why the fuck aren’t we?
My phone beeps breaking me from my thoughts and my heart sinks when I realize it’s Alli, who also serves as a reminder as to why I’m not in a relationship with Leigh.
Alli Chem Lab: hiiii! what are you doing? *kissy face*
I toss my phone to the side, fully planning to ignore her for now, when my phone begins to ring. Feelings of dread flood me instantly as I press the Bluetooth in my car. “Hey, Alli.”
“Babe, can you come with me to this mixer tonight?”
I let out a quiet groan as her voice comes through the speaker. “Tonight? I kind of have to study.”
“It’s Friday night, come on…” she whines. “By the way, where are you? I texted you a few times.”
Translation: Are you with Leighton again?
“In the car.”
“Oh…” I hear the question in just that one word. “Well, where were you?”
I let out a sigh. “Library.” The lie comes out before I can catch it, and I wince at the fact that I’m being dishonest with her. But I’m tired of the same old why do you hang out with Leighton so much? You see her more than you see me. It’s starting to grate on my nerves.
Then break up with her!
I know I did this to myself. I asked Alli out to trigger Leighton’s jealousy but all it did was make her get a boyfriend of her own.
Fucking tool. I hate that guy. I grip the steering wheel thinking about him fucking her. About him kissing her. Touching her. Just…being near her.
All of it makes me irate.
She wouldn’t sleep with him.
Tell me you’re not sleeping with him, Leigh.
“Everett?” Her voice washes over me and I rub my forehead as I come to a stoplight.
“Yeah. I mean yes, I’ll meet you wherever.”
“A bunch of us are pregaming at my place. Come over early?”
“Yeah…okay. Sure.” I pull into my parking spot outside of the townhouse I share with two other guys from the lacrosse team.
“Okay…and babe?”
“Uh huh?”
“Don’t bring Leighton.”
I walk through the door of my house to the sounds of cheering, and I turn the corner to see my roommates Pat and Dave playing Xbox.
