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I toss another can into the air, the crunch of aluminum connecting with the wooden bat not nearly as satisfying as I was hoping it would be.
The crumpled can flies about thirty feet in the air, landing right in the dumpster. I’m too pissed off to feel any satisfaction about my perfect aim. I chug the remnants of the beer in my hand and then that can goes flying too.
Three more.
Five.
I’m close to running out of projectiles when I finally ask. “Who the hell is he?”
“Thought we weren’t talking about it?” is Finn’s response.
I scowl as I pick up another can from the shrinking pile and send it flying into the field, making my lack of appreciation about his sarcasm known.
Finn sighs again. “His name is Brooks. We’re in the same frat. He came back to campus early for some teacher’s assistant training thing, so I invited him to come and hang out tonight.”
So he’s a non-awkward nerd.Fucking fantastic.
At least they met tonight. He hasn’t been hanging around her all summer.
“You let your frat bro hit on my girlfriend?”
Finn doesn’t ask the obvious question.
Is she my girlfriend?
“Harrison went over there, made sure she was okay.”
I snort. “How noble of him, angling for a spot in line.”
“I didn’t say he did itforyou.” Finn sends a can flying into the field. “But he’d probably never do that to you.”
I grunt, hoping he’s right.
Probably, because it’s practically an open secret Harrison has had a thing for Cassia since high school. If she indicated she was interested, I doubt any loyalty to me would be enough to keep him from acting on it.
“Are you coming on the trip tomorrow?”
“Are you asking because you invited Douchenerd?”
Finn rolls his eyes, which I take as a yes. “Fuckingtalkto her, Holden.”
“I will.”
I just need to burn off the anger about coming home to her laughing and playing basketball with another guy. And get a handle on the fear about what she might say when wedotalk.
It’s the same reason I didn’t reach out to her all summer because I needed a possibility to keep me going instead of hearing it’s over while I was eight hundred miles away. Because she asked for space, and I didn’t want not giving it to her to be another strike against me.
“And yeah, I’m coming tomorrow.”
Finn nods. “Good. By the way, Jordan invited all the girls.”
“What? Why?”
“Why do you think? He’s hooking up with McKenzie again, and he didn’t think McKenzie would go unless he invited Grace. And he didn’t want to piss the rest of the girls off by inviting only McKenzie and Grace, so he made it an open invitation.”
I groan. “It’s supposed to be aguys’ weekend.”
“Didn’t think you’d be back. Didn’t think you’d care.” Finn slants a curious look my way, likely wondering why I came home early without telling anyone. “You could invite her.”
