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up there, but it was the one place where I could count on my new
step-brother to leave me alone—at least for now. I didn’t know how long it
would be until he made another attempt to knock on my door, get me to talk to
him. I didn’t even want to think about what we’d done, much less talk about it.
    It got closer to midnight and I was hungry, and
bored. I could only entertain myself for so long, watching qualifiers for
different extreme sports competitions; I wanted to be out on the slopes,
practicing, perfecting my tricks. But it was too late—even I knew better than
to hit the mountain in the middle of the night. I decided I’d go into the
kitchen and make some popcorn, maybe come back and see if any of my friends
from the frat were online, bored half to death at their own parents’ houses. I
peered out through the bedroom door, looking up and down to make sure that no
one was around, least of all Jaxon.
    I padded out to the kitchen and started the popcorn.
As if on cue, I heard a rustle behind me; turning around, I saw Jaxon. “Oh,
come on!” I said, barely keeping my voice down. “Is there some kind of camera
following me around?” Jaxon grinned, coming closer to me—but still giving me a
little bit of space.
    “I know the house like the back of my hand. And
hey—I’m kind of bored. It’s not hard to know where you’d go.” I crossed my
arms, listening for the pop-pop-pop pop pop-pop-pop of the popcorn in the
microwave.
    “Okay. So why are you stalking me?” I had been
avoiding him—moving away whenever he happened to run into me. But I had to know
what he was doing. I had to know what was on his mind, why he kept showing up
wherever I went. It was like before we’d had sex together, which terrified me.
I didn’t want to even consider the possibility of having sex with him again. It
would be too weird. It would be absolutely insane—our parents would freak out,
they’d probably disown us. Jaxon moved just a little bit closer to me.
    “I just wanted to talk to you,” he said, keeping his
voice low. “I wanted to apologize.” Jaxon was only inches away from me. The
popcorn popping began to slow down. I stopped the microwave and snatched the
paper bag out of it.
    “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I said. My
heart was beating faster.
    “Mia, we have to talk. Can’t you at least give me a
chance to talk to you about this?” Jaxon’s hand moved out, barely avoiding
touching my body, moving to my hip. I danced out of his reach, gripping the
popcorn in my hand as tightly as possible.
    “There’s nothing to talk about,” I said quickly, my
mouth going dry. “Nothing at all.” I shook my head.
“We don’t need to talk about anything.” I hurried out of the kitchen and across
the den, down the hall and to my bedroom.
    I got online and looked for anyone I could talk to . I didn’t want to talk about Jaxon, or about the stupid
situation. Just wanted to distract myself from everything
going on. I managed to find one of the Phi Kappa brothers and talked to
him about the game from the night before; I’d missed it but I’d caught the
highlights. What are you up to? I
thought about it. The guy I was talking to knew Jaxon. He was a sophomore; he
wasn’t super close, but it was in the frat.
    Just
boring family stuff, I wrote. I ate my popcorn and tried to
forget about the fact that Jaxon was in the same house, that he was only down the hall from me. I threw away the empty bag and turned off
the TV, signing out of the chat and curling up in my bed. I would only be there
a few days more. I would be able to stay away from Jaxon and we could
maybe—possibly—go back to normal once we both went back to the college. As long
as we could stay away from one another, it wouldn’t be difficult to pretend like we’d never had anything to do with each other. If I could just stay away from him.

 
    CHAPTER
6
    The next morning, I woke up early and decided that
the only way to get my mind