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I faced him, and he gave me a brilliant smile, sending guilt tumbling through me. Shit.
He searched my face. “Everything good?”
Good? Yeah, great. If you didn’t count the fact that after our date, Lucas gave me one of the best orgasms of my life in the kitchen. I tried to fake a smile. “Yeah, just a bit tired.”
He tilted his head, then nodded. “We still good for Friday?”
“About that…” I looked at him, scanning over his mussed hair, glasses, and high cheekbones. Theoretically, I knew he was attractive, but unlike with Lucas, I didn’t feel…well, anything around him. After Lucas being ice-cold this morning, I desperately wanted to be the girl who’d just get over him and under the next guy. But no matter how many times I wished for that, I just couldn’t do it.
Before I could go on, Eric cut in. “We could go to the game? That way, you won’t get too distracted by your phone.” He smirked, and it was cute, but it didn’t warm me the way Lucas’s did.
“I’m sorry, I can’t… Honestly, it wouldn’t be fair to you.”
“It’s the guy from your house, isn’t it.” He didn’t sound accusatory, more like he already knew.
I huffed out a breath. “Unfortunately.”
He looked away and nodded. “I’m not going to lie to you, Piper. That sucks, but I have tickets to the game already if you want to come as friends.”
I twirled my pen on my desk. “I…I don’t think that’s a good idea. It still feels kinda date-like.”
Sidney leaned closer and smiled at Eric. “My roommate, Mia, would love to go.”
I sighed in relief, but Eric jerked back in his chair. “I don’t think I’m at the stage of desperation.”
Strands of striking white hair were revealed when Sidney lifted her hair into a high ponytail. “Listen, she’s hot. I promise.”
“I can just sell—”
I cut Eric off. “I was planning on going with my roommate. We can make it a whole double-date-type thing so it’s less awkward.”
Eric laughed. “That should hurt, you know? The fact that you’re so uninterested that you’ll accompany me on a blind date.”
I grinned. “It probably should hurt, but does it? Plus, I hear she’s hot.”
“Okay, yeah,” he replied to a now smiling Sidney.
The professor walked in, effectively cutting off our conversation, but I caught Eric glancing over at me. If only it sent a thrill through me.
* * *
The cafeteria was packed, the noise from the students echoing off the walls and the delicious smell of greasy food filling my nose. I grabbed a burger and fries, swiping my food pass at the counter before heading into the chaos.
Shana waved from where she sat at a round laminate table in one of the four seats.
“Girl, you need to spill everything. I can’t believe you’ve been living there all this time and haven’t given me any details,” Shana said, barely giving me enough time to sit before grilling me.
“Nothing to tell. Our dorm floor is shut down, and the guys offered me a place to stay.” I left out Lucas’s and my food fight, knowing she’d freak out. I wasn’t ready to talk about it, especially because I knew she’d be worried about me. Shana had gone away for school, but that didn’t stop her from checking in last year.
She raised a brow over her deep brown eyes. “Uh-huh. How’s Lucas?”
A flash of frustration coated me. “Still a dick.”
“Still a dick you want to fuck?” Shana grinned.
I couldn’t stop my laugh, and my cheeks heated. She knew me entirely too well. “Unfortunately.”
Her voice turned serious. “How are you after the fire? You haven’t talked about it much.”
