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“I’m okay with boring,” I drawled out.
“Well, I’m going to get my bell rung by whatever hot guy catches my eye.” She said it like the thought of a guy turning her down was inconceivable, and maybe it was. I mean, Jessica was very pretty and outgoing, so maybe she did have the power to grab any guy that she wanted. “Besides, who is this Hunter person?”
“Just a friend that I grew up with,” I told her, hedging around the truth a bit. “We were lucky enough to end up here together.”
“Is he hot?” she asked slyly, and the thought of Jessica hooking up with Hunter bothered me a lot.
“Yes, he is,” I answered truthfully, no matter how I felt about the subject.
“How hot?”
“Scorching.”
“Hmm…” she murmured, and I could feel things getting more and more complicated by the minute. Whatever was happening, it was clear that Hunter Finley was no longer just a guy that I’d grown up with.
Chapter 5
The little things that open our eyes.
Alexandria~
Even though nine o’clock was considered early for college life, the party at the Cherry House had been in full swing when we had arrived an hour ago, and while I wasn’t necessarily uncomfortable, this was my first college party ever, and I could admit to feeling a bit intimidated by the lack of decency swarming the place. Even though there’d been drugs and sex at the underground fights, everyone had been there mostly for the fighting and bets. Here, people were upstairs offering up their virginities like Oprah used to give away audience prizes.
“Are you sure that you’re okay?”
I looked up at Hunter for the millionth time tonight. “Are you going to keep asking me that all night?”
He smirked down at me. “You just look nervous,” he replied honestly. “If you don’t want to be here, we can go, Alex.”
“I’m not nervous,” I denied. “I just…well, you do know why they call this place the Cherry House, right?”
Hunter’s smirk turned into a full-blown grin. “You’re uncomfortable about all the sacrificial virgins in the place?”
“You’re a dick, Hunter Finley,” I replied before taking a drink of my beer.
“Oh, c’mon,” he chuckled. “You can’t tell me that sex makes you uncomfortable, Alexandria. There’s no way that you would have made it through our senior year if it did.”
He wasn’t wrong about that. Talon couldnotkeep his hands off Kenzlee to save his life. While he’d done his best to act right whenever Edie had been around, it’d been a rare thing for Talon and Kenzlee to go a day without being underneath each other.
“Sex doesn’t make me nervous,” I said, eyeing the bastard. “I just…it’s weird.”
After taking a drink of his own alcoholic concoction, he asked, “What’s weird?”
“I don’t know,” I muttered, feeling like a naïve child all of a sudden. “I mean, I know that candlelight and rose petals only happen in romance books, but I can’t imaginewantingto lose my virginity at a college party in a bed that probably doesn’t even have clean sheets.”
Hunter eyed me for a second before bursting out laughing. “Clean sheets, Alex? Really?”
“Screw you, Hunter Finley,” I huffed before stepping away to leave him and his condescending ways to enjoy the night without me.
“Whoa,” he said before I felt his hand wrap around my arm, yanking me back. “Relax, Alexandria.”
I looked up at him. “I’ll relax as soon as you stop talking to me like I’m an idiot.”
His brows jumped as he shot me a look. “I amnottalking to you like you’re an idiot,” he lied. “I was just teasing you.” His hazel eyes glanced around the room before settling back on my face. “If it’s any consolation, I don’t understand why a girl would want to lose her virginity here, either.”
“Oh, but you understand why a guy would?”
“Get real, Alex,” he sighed. “For men, it doesn’t take much. For men, it doesn’t have to mean anything. I can’t think of many guys that need something like that to be special for them.”
