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There was something between us. If there wasn’t before, my hand between her legs tonight made it so.
“So that’s it?” she asks me.
“Ava, we can still hang out, but the sex stuff is just not a good idea.”
“That is so not fair.”
I shake my head and let out a sigh as I grab my phone off her bed and slip it into my pocket. “I know.”
Six
Ava barely talked to me the last few days. She’s ignored my calls, given me the shortest answers via text, and has more excuses as to why she couldn’t hang out.I know she studies a lot, but I also know she is avoiding me, and it sucks.I miss her.
In the week we had reconnected, I realized how much Ava had always meant to me. I don’t know if I hurt her feelings, or if she’s just being pissy with me, or maybe it’s her time of the month, but this shit is ending tonight. Which is how I ended up at a club in New York, on a Saturday night, in the dead of winter.
I’d asked her to have dinner with me tonight, and when she politely declined, I demanded to know why. It was Friday, meaning she didn’t have class the next morning so there was no reason why she couldn’t see me like she’d avoided since we’d had dinner at her house. She told me she was going out with people from her class and“if I wanted to, I could come.”I could hear the shock in her voice when I told her I’d be there.Called your bluff, Remington.
I step out of the cab and groan when I see the long line down the block.I know what to do here.
I walk up to the bouncer. “How much to not wait in this line?”
He gives me the once over, then looks next to me, assumedly looking for another person. “You’re by yourself?”
“Yep.”
“No woman?”
I look next to me to see if one manifested between the car and here.No, asshole.“Just me.”
“One-fifty.”
“To get in here?”Who the fuck are you kidding, pal? This place probably doesn’t cost one-fifty to keep the lights on.
“Hot night tonight.” He shrugs. “Take it or leave it.”
I roll my eyes. “Whatever.” I pull out my card, and he looks at me like I’ve grown a third head.
“Do I look like I have the machine to run that? Cash only.”
“Are you fucking kidding me? Can’t you run it inside?”
“You can’t be serious.” He looks at me.I was well aware that most clubs took cash only, but I was also aware that most clubs made concessions, especially when someone whips out a black American Express card.
“Where’s the closest ATM?” I grit out.
“What do I look like, Google maps? How the fuck should I know?”
I run a hand through my hair and make my way down the street toward the lit shops hoping there’s a bullshit ATM amongst the seas of late-night pizza shops and markets.
Need to get cash to jump the line, be in soon.
Ava: You’re here? I have cash! I’ll come out and get you.
No, stay inside. I got it.
Well, she doesn’t seem mad that I’m here; that’s a plus.
Ava: Kennedy is here…be cool! Don’t rat me out!
