Boyfriend Material by K A Mitchell

Author:K A Mitchell [Mitchell, K A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460397459
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Easier said than done.

The snow settled in to stay. I figured out why Ethan didn’t wear boots if he could help it. He walked like an emperor penguin in them, as if they made him forget he had ankles. It kept making me want to push him into a snowbank and kiss him. Well, that and keep him in sneakers before he fell down and broke something.

Horizontal time together was impossible to find. If people weren’t hiding in their rooms from the weather, they were hunkered in to study for finals. I picked up extra tutoring hours and a lot of sexual frustration.

As if that stress wasn’t enough, winter break loomed like a tractor-trailer on a blind mountain curve. Uncle Owen had invited me for Christmas, Ethan invited me for the week after and then I supposed it was back to my eight-by-six cell in the trailer in Van. Making those plans required more logistical engineering than the launch of the Mars rover. The first week of December was filled with eye strain, tension headaches and blue balls.

Joining in the usual Fisher Dorm lunch on Wednesday felt like the first time I’d been able to get five minutes with Ethan, and even then I was still sharing him with his friends and their endless conversation about the holidays.

“What do you want for Christmas?” Ethan dropped his napkin on his tray and looked at me.

“World peace and a job as a Five Finger Death Punch roadie,” Connor said around a mouthful of burrito. Ethan must have kicked him under the table because Connor grunted, then grinned. “What? You weren’t asking me?”

I had no freaking idea what to get Ethan. God, or his parents. Uncle Owen. Christine. My mom. I rubbed the back of my neck. “I don’t know.” It seemed like there was no way I could convince him not to buy me something, to convince him that it would give me one less thing to freak out over.

“One thing I didn’t think of coming to school here was that there was literally no place to buy anything except the campus bookstore. Even a car can only get you up to Erie’s sad little mall.”

Of course, the one thing, the only thing, he’d had on his mind when he’d picked Coborn was to chase Blake.

“Not true,” Connor said. “The bus line goes out to the Giant Eagle Supermarket. Nothing says Merry Christmas like a multipack of ramen noodles.”

“Or Happy Hanukkah,” Whitney said. “Well, not the shrimp flavored kind.”

“I see your Christmas and Hanukkah and raise you a Kwanzaa,” Makayla threw in. “But the issue of where to shop is still on the table. I suppose I could get everybody a Coborn Cougar Pride T-shirt from the bookstore. Maybe even pass the bill off as part of my book budget.”

“Oh, there’s that drugstore across the road from Memorial Hall,” Whitney suggested.

“That solves my what-to-get-Ethan-and-Wyatt problem. A giant pack of condoms.” Makayla sounded serious.

My nuts shifted and my ass clenched. Ethan, please don’t correct her so I can still make eye contact with her.

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