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I chuckled. “Yeah, super friendly.”
His brows rose. “Thinking of hitting that?”
I scowled. “Yeah, no,” I huffed. “She seems like a bit…much.”
Baron grabbed all his blonde hair into a ponytail, then did that man-bun thing that guys had started doing a while back. My hair was cut close on the sides, a little longer on the top, so I didn’t have anything to gather. My hair was long enough to give a girl something to hold onto while my face was in between her thighs, but that was it.
“Then why ask about her?” he asked after gathering his hair out of his face.
“I ran into her yesterday, and she mentioned hoping to see me at some of the parties this weekend,” I told him. “Not to sound like a pussy, I’m not up to fending off some girl all night long.”
“Dude, girls like that will move on easily if you make it clear that you’re not interested,” he said. “You gotta remember, this isn’t high school anymore. These college girls aren’t looking for marriage.”
I grinned. “Unless you’re an athlete that’s on his way to the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, or whatever other letters are out there.”
Baron chuckled. “Touché.”
Thinking about it, maybe a good party was just what I needed. While I wasn’t looking to lose my virginity or devirginize anyone, a few beers couldn’t hurt. It might even help relieve some of this fucking stress. I mean, I knew that I could always get my degree through a community college, but I didn’t want to go that route unless I absolutely had to. Plus, whatever money that I might have left over could go to helping Lars when he got to college. If I could make life easier on my brother-even a little bit-then I would. Hell, if I got a decent-paying job right out of college, I could just go back to living poor like I used to, then use all my extra money to pay for Lars’ three other years of college. It’d be a struggle, but I was used to struggling or going without for Lars, something that I’dneverregretted or resented.
“You know what? I’ll go,” I said, making up my mind.
Baron’s smile stretched across his face. “Cool. We can meet up with some of my boys, have a few beers, then do whatever it is that college kids are supposed to do.”
Making a last-minute decision, I asked, “Is it cool if I bring someone?”
He shrugged. “Yeah, that’s cool. Who’d you have in mind?”
“My friend, Alex.” It was beginning to feel weird to just call her my friend, but as of right now, that’s all that she was.
“Oh, okay. Cool. Where do you know him from?”
“Actually, it’s Alexandria,”I corrected. “We grew up in the same town, then ended up here together.”
He waggled his brows. “Is she hot?”
I licked my bottom lip, doing my best not to take the bait. “She’s off-limits, is what she is.”
Baron grinned. “It’s like that?”
Since I saw no point in lying to him, I said, “Yeah, it’s like that.”
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Alexandria~
Ilooked down at my phone, and I was kind of surprised and disappointed, though I didn’t want to look too much into why I was feeling disappointed. After all, I was the one that had told Hunter to go out and make new friends. I was the one that’d told him not to worry about babysitting me, right?
Kidnapper #1:Going 2 a party 2nite. Wanna go?
For reasons that I just wasn’t ready to examine, my first thought when I saw Hunter’s text was that he’d decided to meet up with Jamie after all and taking me with him was his way of trying to avoid the lie about how he was supposed to help me move that fake thing.
Before I could respond to Hunter’s text, the door to my room opened, Jessica barging inside, fresh from the showers. “I can’t believe that you’re really staying in for the second weekend in a row,” she huffed. “You are absolutely no fun, Alexandria Grant.”
“That’s not true,” I semi-lied. “Back in high school, I used to hit up the parties and underground fights all the time.”
That had her pausing her steps. “What? What underground fights?”
I shrugged like I was Mrs. Cool or something. “There used to be a traveling underground fighting circuit, and we’d go a lot.”
