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“Get fucked, Tal.”
The bastard started laughing. “C’mon, Hunter,” he chuckled. “What did you expect me to say? You’ve never once mentioned liking her or anything like that.”
“That’s because I didn’t know that I liked her before now,” I argued unreasonably.
Once Talon stopped laughing at me, he asked, “Okay, so what happened?”
Starting from the very beginning of when I had run into Alex that first time, I told Talon everything. I told him about how I’d begun to see her differently, getting jealous of Baron flirting with her, that bullshit with Corbin, about the rest of the party, our drinking, and how we had ended up back at my dorm. Leaving out the more personal details, I told him about how she’d made the first move, and how I’d made the last one. Since Talon already knew that Alexandria had been a virgin, I didn’t have to explain to him the importance of last night. I even told him how I was feeling like shit for taking advantage of her, and how I wanted to fucking do it again.
When I was done, he asked, “And you’re sure that she was too drunk to know what she was doing?”
“Well, I mean…she didn’tseemdrunk, but we’d been drinking, Tal,” I reminded him. “It never should have happened while we’d been drinking. It’s got me fucked-up. It’s got me thinking that it only happenedbecausewe’d been drinking.”
“Look, Alexandria isn’t some shy wallflower,” he said. “Even if she did have a few too many, I just can’t see her as the type that would let a guy manipulate her into giving her virginity away, not that I’m saying that’s what you did.”
“Then why does itfeellike I did?” I challenged.
“Because you’re a good guy, Hunter,” he replied. “Because you have respect for women, and you’re not a fucking douchebag.”
“Thanks,” I chuckled.
“It’s true,” he insisted. “I think that you just need to talk to Alex. Just ask her how she feels about last night and put all this doubt to rest. Knowing Alex the way that I do, she’ll have no problem being honest with you. If you did anything wrong, she’ll let you know it.”
“Need I remind you that she hasn’t reached out to me at all today?”
“If you woke up with a hangover, it’s quite possible that she’s just sleeping hers away, Hunter.”
“And what if she’s not?” I posed. “What if she’s avoiding me because I took her fucking virginity after she’d been drinking?”
“Then you apologize for it,” he suggested. “Time machines don’t exist, Hunter. If she really feels like you took advantage of her, apologize, explain yourself, then give her time to process it all.”
“I can’t do that,” I admitted.
“You can’t apologize?”
“No, I can apologize and explain myself,” I corrected. “It’s the giving her time that’s going to be a bit of a problem for me.”
I could hear Talon sigh over the phone. “You really like her, don’t you?”
Even if Talon wasn’t my best friend, I wasn’t going to lie about something this important. “I do.”
“If that’s the case, then you gotta be totally honest with her, Hunter,” he advised. “Alexandria is the type of girl that would rather get her heart broken with the truth than get strung along by a lie.”
“I know,” I sighed. “I just…it really would help if I had an idea of how she felt about me.”
“Is that your way of asking me to ask White to pick Alex’s brain?” he chuckled.
“Well, you are supposed to have my back,” I chuckled back.
“I’ll see what I can do,” he promised, and that was Talon for you.
“You know, after all these years of knowing her, I never imagined that I’d feel this way about Alexandria Grant,” I admitted. “It came out of fucking nowhere, Tal.”
“It happens like that sometimes,” he chuckled softly.
“Anyways, thanks for listening,” I told him. “I actually have to get back to my job applications.”
“Anytime,” he replied. “Also, I wouldn’t worry about it too much, Hunter. Alex has no problem telling someone when they’re wrong. Just don’t kidnap her again.”
