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“Let’s go!” RJ shouts over the engine as he mounts his own bike.
“So, I guess I should get going.”
Her father made it clear that he won’t ever approve of me and her, and I don’t want to be a wedge between them.
“Yeah, me too.”
“See ya, Lyla.”
“Bye, Barrett,” she says.
I’m halfway back to my bike when she calls my name again, stopping me in my tracks.
“Yeah?” I turn back around to face her, second-guessing my intent to stay away from her already in case she makes the offer to see her again.
“Why did you sleep with me?”
“Ah, what?” I ask in confusion since that wasn’t the question I was hoping she would ask.
“Was it…did you want to get back at Laurel, or was it because I look like her?”
“No. God, no. Neither of those things!” I assure her. She didn’tseem to think I had any ulterior motives last night, which means… “Let me guess – your father put that shit in your head?”
She shrugs without responding.
“You don’t actually believe I would do either of those things, do you?”
“I don’t know. I wasn’t thinking much last night, but everything did happen so suddenly on the same day Laurel remarried…”
I start walking back to her as I tell her, “Lyla, I swear the only thing I was thinking about last night was that I wanted to be with you. Just you.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
We both stand there, staring at each other, neither of us saying anything, neither of us trying to leave. And I’m finding it nearly impossible to make my feet walk away from her again. That’s why I find myself blurting out, “Are you busy? Like right now?”
She shakes her head no.
“Do you want to do something? Hang out?”
“Hang out?” she asks with a puff of laughter.
“Yeah.”
“Ah, sure, I guess. What exactly did you have in mind?”
“No clue. Think about it while I go tell RJ to go on home without me.”
“Okay,” she says with a shy smile before I leave her.
“Remy told you to keep your dick away from her,” RJ reminds me loudly from his seat on his bike.
“How was I supposed to know we would be in the same place at the same time?”
He narrows his eyes at me. “I’m not that stupid, bro. You went by her house hoping to see her there but got her father instead.”
“I swear that’s the truth. I don’t even have her number,” I say before I remember her putting it in my phone when we had lunch. “Okay, so I did have her number, but we didn’t make plans. I was going to stay away from her after talking to Isaac. This is just a happycoincidence, being here at the same time. That’s why I decided I don’t care what Remy or her father says. We’re going to hang out.”
