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I hesitate, knowing I shouldn’t stay but also not able to say no to him. “Well, I do love a good taco.”
“She’ll stay,” he calls back to his mom before his gaze swings back to me. “Come on, we can hang out in my room until dinner’s ready.”
I swear my damn knees nearly give out. Me, alone with Alec...in his bedroom. The thought has my mind splitting off in a million different directions.
“Door open,” his mom calls after us and I can’t help but laugh. It’s totally something my mom would say as well.
“Ignore her,” he grumbles, leading me to the back of the apartment.
He steps into the first bedroom on the left and I follow him inside. Unlike the rest of the apartment, Alec’s room is full of clutter.
There are several unopened moving boxes in one corner, an unmade bed along the far wall, and a desk on the opposite side littered with odds and ends.
“Sorry about the mess. I had the bright idea to go through everything as I was unpacking. Let’s just say I’m easily distracted.” He chuckles, looking around the room.
“I can see that.” I smile, sliding down into his desk chair before swiveling it to face him as he drops down onto the edge of his bed.
“Lucy said she wouldn’t come back again until I cleaned it up. That was last week.” He laughs again.
“Lucy’s been here?” I question, my stomach knotting tightly. I knew they were hanging out, but I hadn’t realized she had been to his house. Then again, it shouldn’t surprise me.
“Yeah, just once.” He shrugs like it’s nothing.
“You guys have been spending a lot of time together.”
“I guess.”
“You guess?” I quirk a brow.
“I mean, yeah, we have. She’s a lot of fun. A little bossy, but fun.”
“Don’t I know it.” I roll my eyes, knowing firsthand how bossy Lulu can be. “So you like her then?”
I want to punch myself in the face. Why am I talking about Lulu when she’s the last person I want to be talking about with him?
“Yeah.” He nods, but doesn’t elaborate beyond that simple, one-word answer.
“As in youlike herlike her?”
God, why can’t I stop already?
“Yeah.”
“Why do you say that like you’re unsure?”
“I don’t know. I really do like her. I guess I didn’t expect to meet someone so soon after moving here.”
“I get that.”
“I was thinking about asking her to be my girlfriend,” he admits, chipping away at the edge of my heart.
“Oh?” I try my best to seem as unaffected as possible.
“I don’t know. Do you think I should?”
Why the hell is he asking me?
“I guess that’s up to you.”
