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“Nick texted me to get you inside before you gave the neighbors a show.” Bridget giggles as she helps me into bed. Her face suddenly goes all serious as she looks at me. “Len, I think he really likes you. You should give him a chance.”
Give him a chance?Pffftttt
All Nick wants is a personal puck bunny to screw whenever he pleases and is at his beck and call.
“Hockey is his only love.” I didn’t mean to say that out loud, but it’s just Bridget. I don’t know why I’m holding anything back.
I whine again, flailing on my bed like a child having a tantrum.
“Oh god, I’m falling for the one guy who will never be mine. I’m falling so hard, Bridget! My heart is going to be shattered into tiny little pieces. See, it’s already started.” I pick up a piece of my heart off the bed to show her.
“Lenny, that’s a piece of red lint.” Bridget swats it away from my hand.
“Red lint, my heart. Same thing.”
I jump up to change and Bridget takes my phone. Her eyes widen as I stumble past her to my closet. Without thinking, I pull out Nick’s tee shirt and throw it over my head. It’s the first one on top. Always is. I did laundry twice this week just so I could wear it. Every night.
“Uh Lenny—” Bridget starts as I pull Nick’s fleece out from under my pillow to curl up with it.
“Don’t judge me! I’m drunk and heartbroken and I’ll regret this in the morning, but if I want to sleep in Nick’s shirt and snuggle with his jacket, that’s my business.”
Bridget doesn’t move.
She’s not sober either, but she’s not as bad as I am right now. She has that deer caught in headlights look on her face and hasn’t moved an inch. I know I may look crazy to her, but I need time to get over him. We were never really dating, but the feelings are still there.
“Just let me be for one night.” I plead with her. “And stop letting me drink tequila.”
I bury myself in Nick’s fleece against my pillow. It still smells like him. The mountain breeze on a crisp fall day.
“Ok, Goodnight Lenny.” Bridget puts my phone on my desk next to me.
“Goodnight Bridget,” I mumble half asleep already.
“Goodnight Lenny.”
“Goodnight Nick,” I answer before springing up out of my sleep.
It was his voice I clearly heard from my phone. I never hung up. Nick heard everything.
Everything!
I’m not drunk enough to not know how bad this is. I try but I can’t think of what I said. Something about my heart being a piece of lint?
Did I say I was curled up to his jacket out loud?
He’s already off the phone and my lights are off. I don’t remember shutting them off or falling asleep.
In seconds, I’m down the hall and in Bridget’s room waking her up.
“Oh my god Bridget, what did I say? What did he hear?” I’m a frantic nut, but I need to know.
“What?” Bridget grumbles and looks at her watch. “Lenny, that was two hours ago. Go back to sleep. We have class in the morning.”
“Lenny, get out.” Her roommate, Tasha, grumbles from her own bed.
Two hours!
Bridget kicks me out of her room, and I realize she’s right by looking at the call log on my phone. I slept for two hours before realizing what a fucking joke I am.
