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stumbling through a bad Power Point
presentation.”
    He takes a step back. “Excuse
me?”
    I cross my arms. It’s my turn to be
smug.
    His expression falls.
“ You’re in Bio
114?”
    “ I am. And you know I’m
just giving you shit. You’re not half bad, but mostly because
you’re distracting eye candy.”
    A glimmer of a smile arises on his
face. “You flirting with me?”
    “ And why would I be doing
that? You have a girlfriend, don’t you?”
    He sighs and pushes back his
hair.
    I continue. “Well, if you’ll excuse
me, I have some biology homework to get to. Pretty sure you
assigned it.”
    As I walk toward the front of my car,
he continues to stand there without saying goodbye. I open the door
and look back at him. “So… see you tomorrow?”
    “ Was the shoot today
weird?”
    I shake my head. “What do you mean,
weird?”
    “ Like every conversation
we have is going to be as awkward as this one.”
    I bite my lip. His shoulder are all
hunched over, hands in his pockets. Like this, in a t-shirt and
jeans, he just looks like another student. An undergrad maybe—a
gorgeous one. He must have girls coming up to him every day on
campus.
    “ I guess we’ll find
out.”
     
    ^^^^
     
    The girls are home and in their
pajamas, crowded around the living room computer. Delilah is
gushing about how sexy Adam is.
    “ I don’t ever want to go
back to solo shooting,” she says dreamily.
    I throw my bag on the couch. “You can
have my boy too,” I tell her with a wink. “Double the
action.”
    “ Jesus, Evan,” cries
Britain, her attention remaining glued to the photos she’s editing.
“You’d think I’d make you pose with some ugly ogre.”
    I dig in the fridge until I find all
the makings for a tofu scramble, and pull the frying pan out of the
cupboard. “It’s not that I don’t find Dallas
attractive.”
    “ Yeah, I can tell that by
your o-face in all of these shots.” Delilah leans over Britain’s
shoulder. They must be going through my shoot from this afternoon.
“Oh my, did you let him eat you
out ?”
    “ Did not!” I yell.
“Britain was just playing her angles. Jesus.”
    “ I do get what you mean,”
Delilah says as she studies my photos, playing with the end of her
auburn braid. “I still want my platform. Trust me, I love shooting
with Adam. I just hope that he doesn’t outshine me.”
    “ Well, hopefully the boy
shoots flop,” I say. “That would make the most sense, right? Our
magazine is aimed toward men.”
    “ Not for long.” Britain
spins around in her chair and crosses her arms. “Just hired a whole
bunch of women writers.” She pushes her glasses up the bridge of
her nose. “Sex, health, socializing—EPE isn’t just aimed toward men
any more. We’re going all out, baby. And you know what that means.”
She takes a paperback book from the desk and chucks it at me. It
flies over the island and I duck just in time. When it smacks
against the cupboards and falls to the floor, I glance at it and
realize that it’s a newer paperback romance novel. The smutty
kind.
    “ You are being given the job of finding out what turns women
on.”
    I pick up the novel and
stand. “So, what? I’m supposed to read this ?” I return to my sizzling
skillet.
    “ That and the fifteen
other ones I have up in my room. It’s what you’re going to be
basing yours and Dallas’s shoots off of.”
    I drop my spatula, and it
clatters beside my feet. “Wait… what ?”
    Delilah’s eyes are wide and excited,
darting between me and Britain.
    Britain smirks. “That’s right. Little
Rylan is going to give it all up to Dallas for the
ladies.”
     
    ^^^^
     
    I stare at my ceiling, my bedmate the
stack of trashy romance novels Britain gave me and my binder full
of bio homework.
    When I close my eyes, I think of my
shoot with Dallas this afternoon. I’ve been making guys jizz
themselves for almost two years now without so much as holding
hands with a guy. Maybe that’s why his hands