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“So you admit you’re attracted to me!” I shout as he leads me down the street. Where we’re going, I don’t know, but I also don't care at all.
“Fuck, yes. I’m not supposed to like you. I’m not allowed to look at you as anything more than my best friend’s sister. But fuck me, I’m no superhero. I’m a regular man, and you? You’re an irresistible temptation. Which is a problem. So…truth or dare?” he asks, taking the conversation in a new direction that gives me whiplash.
“Uh. Dare?”
“I dare you to find a guy tonight at the party and tell him you want to ride his face.” He gets this look in his eyes as he says this, and I’m about to ask if he means himself, but then… “Not me. Not Ren. Definitely not Romeo, Griff, or Fallon. Someone you’ve never met. You don’t have to take it any farther than that, but I want to see you flirting tonight.” He pauses. “Hypnotic would have been a better word to use than radioactive. But I was thinking of Harley Quinn jumping in the green vat for Joker and how reckless that is. Which is how you made me feel tonight.”
I pull my hand away from his and tense up. Joker and Harley Quinn are the poster couple for toxic. There’s a reason she’s with Poison Ivy now. Joker was a piece of shit. Am I overthinking this? Probably.
That still hurt.
“I’m not the good guy in this story, Rose. I’m not a reformed fuckboy. You aren’t the girl that makes me change my ways. I’m the guy that just talked his best friends’ little sister into finger fucking herself in a public restroom. You’re the girl too naïve and innocent to see through my games. I’ll fucking break you if you don’t…”
“Don’t what?” I ask after he's been quiet too long.
“If you don’t stop me. If you let me, I'll keep bending you until you snap in half. That's who I’ve always been.”
“You don’t sound like a fuckboy right now. Do fuckboys warn their conquests off?”
“You’re different.”
“You could change. If you wanted to. You could be different,” I whisper, and Nash goes still.
“I don’t want to change, Rosie.”
And with those words, the high I was riding falls away, leaving me with a void in my chest. Fine.
He wants to play? Thinks I’m too weak?
I’ll bring him to his knees like the Kryptonite he thinks I am.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
“Do I Wanna Know?” by the Arctic Monkeys
ROSE
Hey, Kitty,
First of all, you’re not a loser, and being a virgin isn’t a big deal.
Also, I doubt your stepbrother hates you. Otherwise, why would he let you move in with him? His friends are probably just frustrated that they have to behave now that a woman lives with them.
Stop looking at the naked men? I don’t know what to tell you there.
And no, I didn’t need to know about the vibe, but the handy in the movie theater was five years ago. You can’t hold that against me!
Don’t feel too bad about being ghosted. That guy was probably crap in bed anyway. Maybe don’t oversell your sexual prowess next time?
Also, high school guys are also probably virgins, so they care less if their partners are still virgins as well. By college, a lot of men seem to think they’re sex gods. Maybe you should look for other virgins? You can start a club.
And Becky dumped me months ago…
-Blue
I sigh, hitting reply to respond to Blue’s email. I guess we haven’t talked much the last few months. Sometimes, I distance myself from him because I’m worried I’d develop feelings for my long-time pen pal, and sometimes, I just get so busy I forget to reply. I need to stop being so immature. Maybe I’ll confess how I feel for Blue one day. Maybe…
I debate telling him how pathetic I was last night… When I walked in with Nash, I could tell Holden and Ren were trying not to laugh at me, but they completely failed. Nash had filled them in, and I ran away to hide in my room. I was going to rejoin the raging party, but after the shit Nash said, and the dumb dare, I chickened out.
