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Willow giggles. “You would really give up sweets?”
I tilt my head, pouting. “No! But it’s not really the issue. The issue is I won’t have to walk up those goddamn stairs.”
“Just think of it as your daily exercise,” Becca adds, shrugging.
I gasp, swinging my head in her direction. “How could you?”
Her eyebrows pinch together as she shakes her head. “Sorry?”
“You should be.”
Willow, still giggling, pauses to explain. “Allie hates anything to do with exercise.”
“Not all exercise,” I defend. “I don’t mind walking, as long as it’s not up hills or too strenuous.”
Willow gives me a dry look before turning to address Becca. “She doesn’t like any exercise.”
Becca’s eyes widen when she runs her gaze over my body. “But you’re so skinny.”
“And I’d be healthy if I didn’t have to walk up the stairs every time the lift breaks down.”
CJ chuckles against my neck. “I’ll carry you, Cupcake.”
I smile at his sweetness. “You love me,” I sing.
He chuckles. “I do.”
“Ya know, come to think of it, did you even do one PE lesson?”
I turn to Willow, smiling. “No. I had a doctor’s note. I sweat profusely and had to have special deodorant that burnt my sweat glands. And I had anxiety over sweating. It’s not like I sweat like a normal person; I look like I’ve been swimming, so the school understood my anxiety over it.”
CJ, who is a little pale, tilts his head up at me. “Um, what about when we have sex? Because I can tell you now, it’s going to be fucking strenuous. You won’t walk for weeks.”
My breathing picks up, a tingle shooting between my legs. I ignore the others laughing and lean in to whisper in his ear. “Oh, trust me, sex will not be included in the same category as exercise because I fully intend to enjoy it.”
His eyes spark, and without warning, he lifts me in the air and over his shoulder.
“Nice seeing you guys, but we’re wiped. We’re going to take a little nap.”
The laughter that follows has me blushing, but I can’t find the thought to care. Some more time alone with CJ is worth everyone knowing we’re about to do something naughty.
Even if it isn’t sex.
At least, not today.
For that, I plan for it to be just us two with no interruptions or chances of one of our roommates walking in.
Or when the moment takes us there.
CHAPTER TEN
Since finding out about the second murder a few days ago, I’ve not been able to get Linda Cooper out of my mind.
What she must have gone through is something I can’t bear to think about yet can’t help but do it. The press have—thankfully—left her parents alone, but it hasn’t stopped them from running the story and interviewing her friends.
How someone could do this to another human being is beyond me. Nobody deserves to die like that. He or she has made an innocent family suffer for their sick enjoyment, and knowing we’re walking around with that monster out there doesn’t bear thinking about. He could be someone we’ve walked past, someone we go to class with or are friends with. It scares the crap out of me.
I promised CJ and the others that I would take a step back from it all, but I can’t. It’s a dangerous situation to be in, I know. No one knows what this person is capable of, what he would do if he ever found out I was looking into the murders.
