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uuup! Go to sleep.” I squinted to see through the dark. Bones hadn’t moved anything but his mouth during his rant.
    “We were whispering, weren’t we?” Becki spoke through her hands that had slapped into her mouth when Bones scolded us.
    “I’m pretty sure we were. Guess we’re going to have to be quieter if we want to keep talking.” We situated our bodies so we faced each other as closely as we could possibly get and still focus on the other’s face.
    “Calon, as long as we’re being honest, this whole thing scares the shit out of me. It got big and intense really fast.”
    “Agreed. If I let myself think too hard about it, it’s more than I know what to do with. So, maybe it’s good that we’ve been moving slowly, I guess.”
    “No. It’s not good. That part is really, really not good.” She flattened her hands on my chest.
    “Yeah. My body isn’t immune to you being so close to me under these covers, and no matter how hard I try, I can’t stop picturing what this night would have been like if we had our own room.”
    “Oh, thank God. I was starting to worry you hadn’t let your mind go there yet.”
    “Are you kidding me? Becki, I’ve been celibate for four years. You. Are. Driving. Me. Mad.” I ran my fingers through her hair and let my hand rest on the side of her face.
    “Celibate?!” The volume of her voice made us both wince. We froze waiting for Bones to flip out. Nothing. He was passed out again. “Celibate?” she whispered the word this time. “You haven’t had sex in four years?”
    “I have not.” I smiled, knowing I’d just added shock and awe to our late night chat.
    “How? You’re like a rock god.” She struggled to keep her voice at a whisper.
    “But, I’m not a slut.” I feigned offense, which made her giggle. She buried her face in my chest to muffle her laughter. Her body froze, and she pulled back to look me in the eyes.
    “Wait, so, that means… Chloe… and that’s it?” She tried so hard to lace her words together, but she obviously had a hard time picturing me as a sexless rocker.
    I took her face in my hands and kissed her once between every couple words. “Just one. But,” kiss, “hoping to make,” kiss, “that short list,” kiss, “one name longer soon.”
    Her eyes fluttered a little, and she growled out, “Shit, that’s hot.”

 
     
    “YEAH, ONE PERSON ! Can you believe all that sex god mojo has been pent up for four years? Gracie, I’m not even sure I can keep up with that. It could kill me!”
    “Holy shit, Becki! I would have thought—”
    “You’re thinking of Calon in sex situations? Stand down, bitch!” I laughed so hard I snorted. Gracie was just what I needed. If I couldn’t be hanging with her on campus, the phone would have to do.
    “You’re funny. So, tell me, how is everything going? You all survived the trip, I guess. Any news about the tour?” I knew she’d find a way to quickly change the subject. I didn’t fault her. You couldn’t look at Calon and not picture him naked. Yeah, he was that hot.
    “The trip was long and smelly. Four boys in a crowded van for a couple days is disgusting. But, yeah, it was uneventful. We met with the management company yesterday, which was interesting. The guys had to go back there this morning, so I stayed here to call you and just be alone for a second. If you would have told me last month that I would be in a hotel room with four rock stars and wanted alone time, I would have said you were high.”
    “Pretty intense personalities, huh?” She yawned, and I could hear Jake and Sam in the background. I pictured them still sleepy-eyed and making some big man-breakfast. Classes hadn’t started yet, so they were all sucking up all the sleep-in time they could get.
    “Well, you know these guys. I mean, they’re cool. Gorgeous, too, but they’re guys… they can be pretty gross. And they don’t feel the need to hold anything back when I’m around.”
    “Hmm.