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“Yes.” I’m the first one to answer, taking Sebastian’s hand when he offers it to me.
We follow Ant and Court through the parking lot and then inside the small restaurant which is bustling with high school students, most wearing still wearing their Blue Devils attire.
The second Sebastian steps through the door, voices pull us in every direction.
“There he is.”
“Great game tonight, Sebastian.”
“You looked incredible out there tonight, Sebastian.”
He just nods and smiles like it’s an everyday occurrence for him. Meanwhile, I’m shrinking smaller and smaller behind him as he leads me through the restaurant. He finally stops at the far corner booth where a couple guys from the team are sitting along with Bree, who I’m instantly surprised to see.
“What the hell?” Courtney gets to her before me. “I thought you were joining us for the game.”
“Sorry, something came up.” She shrugs, patting the booth next to her. I immediately slide in, feeling Sebastian’s hand on my leg the moment he settles next to me.
“Where’s Blake?” I ask, watching something flash across her face before her carefree smile once again falls back into place.
“He had to take off.” She shrugs, taking a drink from the soda glass in front of her.
“You okay?” I lower my voice, knowing something’s off.
“Yeah, I’m fine. We just got a littlepreoccupied.” She says it in a way that I know instantly means they were having sex. “Anyway, we missed the game and instead of taking me home I asked him to drop me here. Since I bailed on the game, thought I’d at least come hang out for dinner.”
“And he decided not to come?” I question, knowing how Blake can be.
I don’t know why but the thought of him dropping her off where all the football players are hanging out and not accompanying her inside doesn’t quite sit right with me. He rarely lets her go anywhere without being glued to his side. It doesn’t seem like the healthiest relationship, but anytime anyone says anything about it Bree jumps to Blake’s defense.
Courtney and I have gotten to the point now where we just keep our mouths shut. If Bree is happy then that’s all that matters anyway. Though more and more recently, she hasn’t really seemed all that happy.
“Wasn’t feeling well.” She shrugs, quickly changing the subject. “So tell me about the game. Sebastian, I hear you were on fire tonight.” She directs her attention to where Sebastian is sitting next to me.
“I did okay.” He leans inward, knocking his shoulder against mine.
“Yeah, okay as in he threw four of the five touchdowns tonight.” I roll my eyes at him.
“Always talking me up.” He smiles, dropping a kiss to my temple. “Keep this up, and I might end up with a big head.”
“Might?” I tease.
“You two…” Bree shakes her head, pulling my attention back to her.
“Why do people keep saying that?” I question, looking at Sebastian for answers. “You two, like we have some kind of disease.”
“Maybe because y’all are sickeningly sweet together.” Bree pretends to gag.
“Oh, whatever.” I laugh, shoving her shoulder.
“I’m serious. You two are like the poster children for a fucking teenage
Hallmark movie.” She rolls her eyes playfully.
I’m seconds away from spitting back some half ass attempt at a rebuttal when the waitress appears. By the time we’re all done ordering and she leaves again, an entirely new conversation is going on around the table.
From there, the rest of the evening went on much like the first. Various people came to our table, talking to Sebastian and some of the other players about the game. A few random girls stopped by and much to my surprise, every time a new one showed up, Sebastian inched closer to me. By the end of the night, we were practically sitting on each other’s laps, not that I minded.
Bree only stayed about an hour. After excusing herself to take a phone call, she disappeared shortly after. Court and Ant seemed like they were in their own little world for most of the night, which was totally fine by me because it meant I got more Sebastian time.
While I was nervous for my first night out in public as Sebastian’s girlfriend, I have to admit I liked the attention of being on his arm more than I thought I would. Unlike at school, most of the people who surrounded us for a good portion of the night were actual friends of Sebastian’s and as such, accepted me with no more than an introduction.
It was like being Sebastian’s girlfriend was an automatic acceptance into the cool kid’s club. The whole night was kind of surreal.
By the time Courtney and I arrived back at my house just after eleven, I kind of felt like the entire experience was just some weird dream, and I’d wake up tomorrow having realized that none of it actually happened.
That’s what being with Sebastian is like—one big dream. And it’s a dream I never, ever, want to wake up from.
