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She snorted. “I think I just came so hard my brain fell out, but I’m great. Give me three to five business days and I’m sure I’ll be able to move again.”
“Can I just say one thing?”
Meeting my gaze, she lifted her brows. “I’ve never been able to stop you before.”
“I think I’m into romance if this is it.” I laughed at the expression on her face and forced myself to sit up. I wasn’t sure if I’d ever get to see her naked body again so I was going to look all I could, while I could.
“Well, my one comment to you at the end of our fake dates is that you shouldn’t change a thing.” She yawned and sat up, unbothered with her nakedness. “If the whole grumpiness, no manners thing is what it takes to get this kind of bedroom performance, I see no problem.”
A compliment from Poppy wasn’t all that common and I put it away for a rainy day. “Can you explain how you managed to not have sex with anyone other than your shitty ex?”
“No one wanted to have sex with me? Either they didn’t, or I didn’t. I think it’s that easy.” She lifted her arms to pull her hair into a ponytail and didn’t seem to notice the way my eyes drank in her body. “At the risk of inflating your ego even more, I have to be honest. Sex with Andrew was not like this.”
I frowned. “We’re not talking about sex with Andrew right now.”
Smiling, she leaned over and planted a kiss on my frown. “Take me home? I’ve got work in the morning.”
I wasn’t letting her leave while thinking about sex with Andrew, so I pulled her on top of me and did everything I could to make her forget.
19
***Poppy***
Istaredacrossmyempty classroom on my break period and repeated the same thing I’d been chanting to myself all morning. “It’s fine that you did that thing. It doesn’t change anything. Everything is fine.”
So what if I slept with one of my best friends after also hooking up with another one of them? No big deal. Everything was perfectly fine and I had nothing to stress over. If I told myself that enough times, maybe I would start to relax a little.
I’d been fine until Cyrus pulled onto my street at the crack of dawn this morning and reality had hit me. Cyrus wasn’t just some random guy who I’d had really amazing sex with. He was my best friend, who I spent at least one afternoon with every week. We often spent several days of the week together. He was helping me learn how to fix my truck, for god’s sake!
Two of my three best guy friends had seen me naked and had put a part of themselves inside me. What the hell was I doing? We’d kept it together for so many years and suddenly we were throwing caution to the wind and acting like we had no rules to follow. We did, though! We had rules that had been set in place for over a decade.
I didn’t even allow myself to think of the night those rules had been made. That was another rule—no thinking about the reason for the rules. The rules had kept our friendship alive and well for so long. The rules existedforus.
Yet, when I’d said goodbye to Cyrus this morning and we’d stared at each other for far too long to call platonic, I hadn’t thought of the rules once. I’d thought of how soon I could get him inside me again. That wasn’t possible, though. It had to be a one time thing…right?
I groaned. “It’s fine that you did that thing. It doesn’t change anything. Everything is fine.”
I dropped my head to my desk and tried to make sense of my life. I couldn’t figure out what I was going to do to make sure things didn’t blow up in my face. But things couldn’t blow up in my face. I couldn’t mess up my friendships with the guys.
My phone rang from next to my forehead and I groaned even louder. Sitting up, I saw that I didn’t recognize the number on the screen, but answered it anyway. I felt like any distraction would be better than my constant overthinking. “Hello?”
“Poppy, honey. Is this a good time?” Andrew’s voice was the last thing I expected to hear.
I grimaced. Apparently, any distraction wasn’t better than overthinking. “Well, you’ve just managed to prove me wrong. What do you want, Andrew?”
He scoffed. “Play nice. I was just calling to check on you. I haven’t seen you since the reunion and we both know that wasn’t your finest moment.”
It was hard for me to believe that just twelve hours earlier I’d been a lump of a human, more relaxed than I’d ever been from all the orgasms Cyrus had given me. Especially when I suddenly felt like a rock of tension. “Andrew, I need you checking on me like I need another hole in my head.”
“You’re angry. I get it. I knew that marrying Kaitlyn would upset you, but the heart wants what the heart wants, Poppy. You know that.” He sighed. “She wants you at the wedding. Are you going to put aside all this old stuff and come?”
I laughed quietly. “Yep. I’ll be there. Don’t forget that I’ll need a plus one for my boyfriend.”
“Oh, yeah. The new boyfriend. What’s his name?”
I held the phone in front of my face and scowled at it. “It doesn’t matter. Don’t call me again, Andrew.”
I hung up and let my head thump back onto the desk. “Everything is fine. Everything is completely fine.”
