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“I’ve only been on campus for a week,” she replies. “I ended up transferring here.”
“No way! How come?”
Elliot and I might as well be part of the deck.
Lennon nods to me, and Sandy’s gaze follows.
“Oh!” He finally puts one and one together, which equals Lennon is off-limits. “You’re Winters’s mysterious girlfriend. Most of campus thought you didn’t exist.”
“Well…I do.”
Sandy looks to me. “Nice scrimmage, Winters.”
“Were you there?” Lennon asks.
“Uh, no. I had an ultimate frisbee thing,” Sandy replies.
“Ultimate frisbee? Is that different from normal frisbee?”
Elliot snorts quietly at Lennon’s innocent response. I smile.
Sandy chuckles and shakes his head. “Not really.” His voice is still friendly, but it’s lost its flirtatious undertone. “See you guys later,” he says, then continues up to stairs.
Elliot starts down the stairs. Lennon and I follow.
“How do you know Sandy?” I ask, aiming for a nonchalant tone.
Lennon laughs, making me think I missed. “Jealous, Winters?”
I am. But it’s not coming from a place of insecurity. It’s the fear everyone has: of losing something—someone—that matters to you. And the realization there are guys out there who Lennon wouldn’t have had to give up anything for.
“I don’t know him,” she tells me. “I happened to be there when a lid fell off a garbage can he was carrying, so I put it back on for him. That’s the wholescandalousstory.”
I shake my head at her sass. “Okay.”
“Lennon!” Elliot calls. “Your turn.” He’s already waiting by one of the cornhole boards.
I tilt my beer in that direction. “Good luck.”
She pecks my cheek, then heads in that direction.
I walk over to where some of the guys are standing around.
“Hey, Winters,” Joe Anderson, our back-up pitcher, greets.
“Anderson,” I acknowledge.
“That your girl?” He nods to where Lennon is standing, taking two bean bags from Drew.
“Yeah.”
He whistles.
“Watch it, Anderson.”
Joe grins but wisely opts to change the subject. “You catch the Eagles game last night?”
“Yup.”
