Damaged Goods by J.C. Hannigan

Author:J.C. Hannigan [Hannigan, J.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Booktrope Editions
Published: 2015-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

AFTER THE LAST CLASS of the day, Aubrey found me at my locker, pulling out my backpack and stuffing it full of the binders I needed for homework.

“Where did you disappear to? You missed Gym,” Aubrey asked as she crossed her arms and leaned against Grayson’s locker.

I bit my lip, looking around to make sure nobody would overhear. “I skipped.” I shrugged. “With Grayson.”

“Why?” Aubrey raised her eyebrows with surprise. I wasn’t one to skip class. Even skipping that one day with her, Lindsay, and Alicia I had been paranoid the entire time.

“I don’t know,” I answered, lying a little. I did know: I wanted to be alone with Grayson.

Aubrey studied me quietly for a moment then sighed, smiling as she shook her head at my behavior. “You’re bad,” she joked, shoving me gently with her hip.

I rolled my eyes. “It was just Gym class.”

“This time,” she pointed out. “But I bet if he asked you to skip all your exams, you would.”

I frowned, resenting her assessment of me. “No, I wouldn’t, thank you.” We started walking down the stairs, following the traffic heading to the buses.

“Sorry,” Aubrey said, sensing that she had hurt my feelings. She threw her arm around me and grinned. “So, what did you guys do?”

I blushed, thinking about how we had spent the entire time kissing on his couch. Neither of us took it any further, even though we both wanted to. Grayson held back, sensing my apprehension. Without any alcohol in my system, I couldn’t easily forget how confusing our relationship status was, and I hesitated on giving him more of me.

Rather foolish, and a little too late at that, considering he had all of me already.

“You really are bad,” she joked, shaking her head and smiling.

“What did I miss?” I asked as the row of buses coming into view.

“I’ll fill you in later,” she promised as we parted ways. She hopped on to her bus first, waving goodbye to me, and I continued walking toward mine.

Grayson was already gone; he hadn’t stuck around after dropping me back at school. He said he had things to do, and it wasn’t that I had expected him to give me a ride home, but still. Taking the over-crowded bus was going to suck.

“Everly, Wait!” I turned my head, seeing Kyle standing outside of his car, the driver’s door wide open as he cupped his hands to call for me. He grinned. “Want a ride?”

Kyle was alone; no Marcus or Cam in the back seat.

“Another time maybe…I have a lot to do tonight,” I told him, shrugging apologetically.

His smile didn’t waver. “You’ll get home quicker if I give you a ride,” he pointed out. I hesitated, the cold wind whipping at my face.

Kyle was my friend…sort of, and there wasn’t realistically anything wrong with accepting a ride from a friend. Still, I felt conflicted. I knew that Kyle’s intentions weren’t just friendly, that he wanted more from me…particularly a response to his earlier unanswered question. He’ll need an answer sooner, rather than later, I thought, begrudgingly walking toward him.

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