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I huffed. “You don’t take anything seriously, do you?”
“No one should take life too seriously. You should loosen up a bit,” he said, pouring juice in the glass.
“I should loosen up? You—” I paused mid sentence, watching him as he drank what I now noticed was the last of my apple juice. “Dude, are you serious right now?” I damn near shrieked.
He cocked an eyebrow and swallowed. “What’s that?”
“Do you not see that huge A on that carton?”
He picked up the carton and furrowed his eyebrows as he squinted at it. “Huh. I guess that is an A. I thought that was just up here since apple juice starts with an A. My bad,” he said, tossing the empty carton in the trash and finishing off his juice. “Well, off to work. See ya, Satan.” He gave me a salute and left me fuming in the kitchen, long after he’d exited the apartment.
I had no idea how I was going to last until his trial period was over, granted that I didn’t strangle him first if he kept up with his antics.
After making an omelet, I settled down at the island and called Alex. “Hey-o!” she exclaimed when she answered.
“Come save me,” I pleaded, stuffing a piece of omelet into my mouth.
“Um, why?”
“Because this man is driving me up the wall,” I muttered.
“I bet you’re being a drama queen. What’s he doing?”
“It’s like he does the tiniest things to get under my skin. Like yesterday, he used my body wash after I specifically told him not to—”
“Body wash, Ashton? You act like you can’t get another bottle of it. If you’re that strapped for cash, I’ll buy you another bottle,” she joked.
I swallowed hard, pushing a stray piece of egg around my plate. There was no way I could tell her that Steve bought me that body wash. I hardly even used it, knowing that once it was gone and I threw the bottle away, I’d be accepting that he’d thrown us away. Now that he was engaged to Clarissa and expecting a baby, I guess keeping that body wash wouldn’t make the process happen any slower.
“Ashton?” Alex called.
“Yeah, sorry. It’s just a special body wash that I didn’t want him using and he didn’t listen.”
“Okay, and what else did he do?”
“Then he came in last night with some random woman who was a screamer,” I muttered, memories of their noise filtering through my head.
“Hell, if she was loud, it must mean he’s good. You should’ve joined them.”
“Alex!”
“Don’t Alex me, you tight wad. You probably need to get laid yourself to get Steve out of your system,” she said. I rolled my eyes and took another forkful of food into my mouth without a word. “Anyway, just give him a chance. You guys have only lived with each other for about 24 hours. It’s going to take some time to get used to each other.”
“It feels like it’s been eternity already,” I mumbled.
“Well, at least he’s nice to look at,” Alex reminded me.
“And while that’s true, he ruins the view the moment he opens is cocky asshole mouth.”
“Ha, imagine when you guys eventually have sex. It’s going to be explosive hate sex—”
“I’m never fucking having sex with him.”
“Never say never, my dear friend! I’m rooting for you to!”
I rolled my eyes. “Whatever. I have to get ready to take some calls since he’s out of the house. I’ll call you later.”
“Okay then. Later, babes!” she said and hung up. I shook my head and laughed to myself. What little faith Alex must’ve had in me to actually think I’d consider having a roll in the sack with him. Sure, he was incredibly handsome and had the circumstances been different and he wasn’t a complete ass, I probably would’ve given him a shot. Alex was right; as loud as his lady friend was last night, I wouldn’t doubt that he was good in bed.
