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“Balltton.”
He flinches, but says nothing, ignoring the childish pun I just made on his last name. Stone faced and humorless.
I enter the building, cross the hall without looking back, and climb to our floor. When I arrive in the apartment, Edgar is sitting on the sofa, a beer in his hand.
“Still downstairs with the clown?”
“Still,” I laugh at the pout he throws at me over his shoulder.
“Three days was all it took for him to get her. He’s a good one,” jokes Leo.
“I don’t like him.”
“You don’t like anyone who touches your sister,” I smile.
“What’s wrong with you?”
The front door slams behind me and I turn to a very angry Scarlett standing in the doorway. With rosy cheeks and a dark look in her eyes, she glares at me.
“It was for fun, Scar.”
“So, it’s really going to be like that, living here?” she continues, moving over to the sofa.
She looks at the three of us, determined to lecture us as if wewere kids being scolded by a mother.
“Edgar, are you going to be pissed off when a guy comes up to me and send your guard dogs to make sure I stay a virgin until I die? News Flash:I’m not a virgin anymore! I slept with guys before you even realized I was old enough to do it, so fuck you.”
He wants to protest but she raises a hand, rooting him to the spot. I stand back with Leo, stuck on the words that are coming out of her mouth. It’s not so much knowing that she sleeps with guys that disturbs me. It’s knowing that she’s not the kid I used to know. I don’t know how that makes me feel.
“Don’t you dare interfere in my personal life, Edgar. I’m no longer a kid. Our year apart, you can stick it up your ass. I’m 21 years old and fully intend to enjoy my life. And Nolan, things like you just did downstairs:never again!If you have the right to fuck whoever you want, so do I. I’m not your property and I don’t have to answer to you. Whether I live here or not, I dowhatI want and withwhomI want.”
“Scarlett,” her brother growls.
“No, Ed. You can’t do that, it’s toxic behavior. If I want to fuck the hockey team together,I fuckthe hockey team! Period!”
On these words, she rushes to her room and the three of us stand around like idiots, trying to come to terms with the fact that Scarlett Martin isno longerat all the girl we let go to France a year ago.
No, Scarlett has grown up.
“She really wants to fuck the whole team, you think?” Leo asks.
We burst out laughing at Leo’s remark, and Edgar ruffles his hair, annoyed.
“Damn, she’s going to drive me crazy!”
Girls as a roommate are a bad thing.
I said it, Scarlett is already breaking the dynamic and the year has barely begun.
9
Scarlett
I kick my comforter off and sigh. I grab my phone, a text from Corey pops up on the screen. It’s almost two in the morning and I haven’t been able to get a wink of sleep.
[I can’t wait to see you again,
thanks for tonight ;)]
