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I’d lost.
“Listen, buddy,” Tad said, interjecting. “She doesn’t need the hot dog. It’ll go straight to her ass. And she’s already packing enough back there to sustain her through at least six months without food. If you know what I’m saying.”
Tad said it in a joking way, I was sure. He was grinning like a loon and winking at me. He was trying to keep me from having to eat the hot dog from a stranger.
I was sure it was a joke.
Right?
But it didn’t come off that way.
Honestly, it came off as him calling me fat.
It came off as him being controlling.
It came off as him thinking that I was ugly.
I smiled saccharine sweet at the redhead. No, Lock…
“Thank you,” I said, taking the foot-long hot dog into my hands and viciously took a bite.
“If you want, during the seventh-inning stretch, you can go get me a beer or something from the concession stand to pay me back,” Lock offered.
I looked at him out of the corner of my eyes to see him staring at me with amusement in his eyes.
He knew that I hadn’t wanted the hot dog since I couldn’t pay for it, and now I was eating it like it was about to disappear from existence.
He was giving me a way to pay him back.
I smiled, mustard and ketchup, bread and meat, all likely covering the front of my teeth.
“Thanks,” I said. “I’ll do that.”
And I would.
We ate in companionable silence after that.
It was in the fifth inning that everything just went…wrong.
The girl next to Tad must’ve realized what a dick he was. Or maybe she just accidentally got up and never came back. Whatever the reason, Tad finally started to pay attention to me, his date once more.
I, on the other hand, continued to ignore him.
Each time a word came out of his mouth aimed in my direction, my anger would rise.
Tad had literally ignored me for five innings.Five.
And honestly, it was a while before that, too, seeing as he’d been talking to the other girl from the moment we took our seats twenty minutes before the game started.
So now that she was gone, he was going to talk to me?
Yeah, I think not.
I was doing my level best not to get pissed, and I was also leaning so far into Lock at my other side that I was practically rubbing my shoulder against his.
Lock didn’t say a word, though.
He just chatted with his sister, commented every once in a while about the game, and ultimately ignored me.
