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But Elisse was already on the phone. “Yes, and tomorrow’s too. She’ll be fine, Felix. Chloe needs to ice that ankle, that’s all. Yup. Okay, see you later.” She hung up and grinned smugly at me. “Mission accomplished.”
“I have no idea what you just did,” I said in a hushed voice. “You lied toFelix.”
She shrugged. “Wouldn’t be the first time. So, let’s go. It’ll take me the afternoon to do your hair and your make up.”
“It will?” I tugged at my pony tail. “I usually just brush it before events.”
“Like tennis presentations?” She raised both eyebrows, a feat in itself. “You might be gorgeous on a shot during a game and even after when you’re all sweaty, but sister, this will not be enough for a Kingsman party. They may as well be the only frat on campus.”
“Oh.” I trotted at her side, feeling like a puppy put through its paces. “How do you know all this?”
“Remember Barclay?”
I scrunched my nose. “The lord?”
The pompous young man who couldn't deal with sunlight of any degree and liked his tea with more sugar than water came to mind. Mom loved him, but I also remembered their breakup wasn’t so friendly.
“Marquess.” Elisse waved my mistake aside. “He’s a Kingsman. So are the Allstars.”
Those I did know, mostly because presentation nights include the other varsity ice hockey, swim, and lacrosse teams. Most of the boys seemed nice enough, though they all drank a lot and Felix usually extracted me fairly fast during social events. And who would argue with my orange, mountain of a coach-cum-security guard?
“Oh. I liked them,” I said tentatively.
Elisse snorted derisively. “That’s because you don’tknowthem. They’re all over privileged assholes. Now, blue or green?”
“Blue,” I said automatically without realising why she was asking, distracted by her insult. If she thought the frat house boys were over privileged, what, exactly, did that make us?
I worried my bottom lip and remembered how Nick touched me there too. My heart strained a little painfully, leaving my gasping as we crossed the commons and headed up to our shared dorm. I didn’t get assigned a housemate like everyone else; instead, I got my sister. Felix was housed in nearby accommodations too. My team, all the time.
Sometimes, I forget how to breathe.
Nick changed that in one short morning.
As annoying as I found him at first, the engineering boy had some playful characteristics. It didn’t surprise me that he tried to get a rise out of me when we first met. I knew the rumours of how untouchable I was, the same ones Elisse bolstered with my constantly pushed single status, declaring that I never dated.
Maybe that really needed to change.
“Dress,” Elisse said cryptically. “For the party.”
“Yeah?” I ventured as she shoved our door open and slammed it shut behind her. “Um, about my classes. I am supposed to attend.”
She turned on her heel to face me. “You weren’t attending anything but that boy’s ego this morning.”
My cheeks heated. “So?”
“So?” she shot back at me. “What happened toI don’t date?How long has this been going on exactly?” she demanded, her hands on her almost non-existent hips.
“Uh, not long.”An hour or two.But she’d tear me apart if I let on to that. Something niggled me and it took me a frozen second to nail it. “Why the change in attitude? And how did you know about my ankle?”
Elisse waggled her phone over her head and wandered into her bedroom. “Felix and Felix,” she called, disappearing from view and leaving me standing in the middle of our enormous living area.
“Fair enough,” I muttered, flopping on the nearest sofa.
The apartment we shared took up nearly an entire corner of the large square towers that flagged the extremities of Rippton U land, with the sporting grounds set closer to the centre. I didn’t mind the fifteen minute walk twice a day as it gave me a chance to get my head into whatever I was supposed to be doing, and out of what I just finished.
Having nothing to do was...unusual.
I fidgeted on the sofa for a minute, wondering if I could have my lunch early before Elisse emerged from her room, her arms full of various shades of blue.
