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“Women, you idiot,” Dillon replied.
“No shit,” Hector snorted. “They drive you crazy, yet they’re also the only thing that can pull you back from that crazy.”
“Relationships suck,” Hector remarked, though I wasn’t sure that’s where everyone was going with this.
“Which is why I plan on staying single until I’m done with school and college,” Alex informed us. “While I need the pussy, I don’t need the headache.”
Edie’s words started beating around in my head, and it was a harsh realization that I was no better than these assholes. Yeah, I didn’t talk about girls the way that these guys did, but I’d never had a problem using them, not giving a second thought to how they felt afterwards. Sure, I’d always made sure that they were sexually satisfied, but I’d never cared beyond having a stellar reputation for being good in bed. I could also remember talking like these guys when I’d been younger. When my mentality had been as immature as my body, I’d said a few careless things back then.
Christ.
“That’s when you get a meek chick,” Hector advised. “Stay away from the crazy ones if you don’t want the headache.”
“But it’s the crazy ones that fuck like porn stars,” Tanner argued. “I can deal with a little crazy if she can suck my dick all the way to my balls.”
Shaking my head, I walked away from the group, leaving them to their opinions on females and sex. While I neither agreed nor disagreed with them, I wasn’t on the same page as them. In fact, I wasn’t even sure if we were all reading the same book. Yeah, I knew that women could be difficult at times, but they were talking as if we never had anything to do with their mood swings, and that wasn’t true. There’s a reason that Hunter and I used to always ask Dad what did he do whenever Mom was pissed off.
Guess what?
He always had an answer for us.
Always.
Besides, I didn’t mind crazy, but not because of the sex. Crazy meant that your girl cared. Crazy meant that she was still willing to fight for your relationship. When a woman just nodded in agreement to everything, that’s when a guy should be worried. If you couldn’t inspire crazy from your girl-whether the insane kind or the passionate kind-then there was a problem.
“What’s going on, Finley?”
I looked up, surprised to see Coach Savannah eyeing me. “What?”
“What’s going on with you?” he repeated. “Out of you, Hunter, and Draven, it’s well-known that you’re the easygoing one, so what gives?”
“I got a mirror shoved in my face earlier, and I’m struggling a bit with what I saw in the reflection,” I replied like I was wiser than I really was.
Understanding my meaning, he said, “That’d do it.”
“Yeah, it would.”
Still eyeing me, he said, “Look, get this shit with Edie Draven under control, okay? I can’t have you killing my guys out there.”
My head reared back in surprise. “You’ve heard about Edie?”
“While I know that you kids would like to believe that the adults on this campus are deaf, blind, and dumb to what you guys are doing, we’re not,” he replied. “Everyone knows that you’ve picked up from where Talon Draven left off, and that Edie Draven isn’t appreciating it.”
“She acts like it’s the worst thing in the world to have someone looking out for her,” I grumbled. “She never gave Talon this much trouble.”
Coach shrugged. “While I can appreciate what you’re trying to do here, Finley, you arenother brother,” he pointed out. “And therein lies the problem.”
Yeah, the problem was that I wasveryaware of how un-brotherly I was feeling towards Edie lately, and I knew that I had to squash that line of thinking before this got ugly between us.
Shaking my head again, I never wanted tonotgo to a party so badly in all my life.
Chapter 8
The path that we didn’t know we were on.
Lars~
“There’s no way that I’m not taking Valerie upstairs tonight,” Dillon announced as he made his way back into the kitchen for some more booze. “Did you see what she was fucking wearing? God bless the girl.”
