the entire thing hilarious.
That’s where we’re different. He may be with Cadence and they might be as tight as me and Belle, but he still goes out and parties. He just knows his limits. I know mine too, but I also remember the way I used to be and I’m definitely not itching to go back down that road. I never screwed around with random girls, but I did drink enough where it could have happened if I wasn’t so withdrawn.
The last thing I wanna do is start drinking at a college party, end up wasted and make the biggest mistake of my life because I’m missing my girlfriend way too fucking much and the idea of a warm body beside me is appealing.
When I have sex for the first time, it’s damn sure gonna mean more than some drunken hookup with a nameless face I’ll instantly want to purge from my system in the morning. That is if I even remembered it in the morning.
I’m not Dean.
“You know he’s not gonna let up until you say yes. You might as well come and bail out later.” Dillon says and I hate the fact that he’s even suggesting this. He knows how I am better than anyone, he should be the one telling Peter to screw off asking.
“Exactly! You’re missing a good time staying in every night. Come on K, live a little.”
There it is again; someone else calling me K. It’s one thing when Isabelle calls me it because when it comes from her lips it almost sounds magical, but anyone else, using it like my name is one letter or some shit, it brings up memories I’d rather not have. Something Dillon remembers well because he answers before I get the chance to.
“If you want him to come, you might wanna lay off calling hi m that. Just saying.”
“Don’t you guys realize that hig h school relationships never work out? I mean come on! Can you really go all week without getting some? That’s some crazy shit! Come to the damn party and find some fun a little closer.”
If he doesn’t shut up right now, I’m gonna beat the shit out of him.
I might be a different person, laying off completely when it comes to the violence but it doesn’t mean it’s gone entirely. I’m still the same as Dillon. I’m a hair trigger away at any moment from wailing on someone and right now Peter is looking like a prime candidate.
No fucking way is he gonna make light of what I have with Belle. Maybe high school relationships do crash and burn, but ours won’t because I won’t let it. Not when this whole futu re I’m working toward depends solely on having her in it.
I want my vision to come true. The dreams I have that center on her and our life together. I don’t care if we’re on opposite ends of the world from each other. I might screw it up, but I’m not gonna screw it up this way.
“Not doing it man, sorry. I’d rather sit here and have a FaceTime date with my girlfriend.”
FaceT ime. That’s another new thing for us. I came home one night from class and saw Dillon on his laptop, Caddy large on the screen, the both of them on Skype and that’s when it hit me. It didn’t just have to be calls and texts with me and Belle. We live in a time where everything is done online now and being together should be no different.
It’s not exactly being in the same room with her, but it beats not seeing her at all or relying on the pictures I ask her for almost every other day when we’re apart.
“Really? A warm body grinding up and down on you as an option and you’re choosing to have internet sex?”
I can’t help it. Hearing everything come back to sex with this guy makes me laugh. There’s no denying the way my body reacts whenever I’m within a foot of my girlfriend, but hell, there has to be more to life than just thinking with your dick.
Spoken like a true virgin.
“Dill, talk some sense into your man. He’s only gonna make me go harder at him denying it this way.”
Dillon throws me a look, one that’s part sympathetic and part annoyed and I know exactly how he feels because I’m sure I’m
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