Hearts and Arrows by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, chick-lit, love, relationships, valentine's
Publisher: KUF Publishing
Published: 2012-02-04T16:00:00+00:00

Noah plopped onto the barstool beside his friend Joey and grabbed the bottle out of his hand. As Joey stared, Noah tossed the beer back, hoping it would settle the nerves jangling in his stomach. No such luck. He bent over and banged his forehead against the wooden surface of the bar. “I am so fucked.”

“Yeah? And now I’m out of beer,” Joey said.

“I’ll buy you a new one.”

“Bartender, two more,” Joey called out. He shook Noah’s shoulder. “Come on, what’s your problem? Being fucked sounds like a good thing to me.”

Noah pushed himself off the bar and glared at Joey. “Don’t you ever take a night off from being an asshole?”

Joey heaved out a sigh. “All right. Tell me what’s going on and maybe we can fix it.”

“I’m spending the day with Cassie, tomorrow.”

“Cassie? The girl in marketing you’ve been crushing on since the Labor Day picnic?” A grin curved his lips, and he punched Noah in the shoulder. “You dog.”

Noah had been chasing Cassie for months, and while she seemed to enjoy his company, she’d clearly relegated him to the dreaded “friend zone.” “It’s going to be a fucking disaster.”

“Color me confused, Romeo. You’ve got a Valentine’s Day date with a girl you like. You wine and dine her, then take her back to your place for a little nightcap, and bingo, hot babe in your bed. I’m really not seeing the problem.”

“The problem is—”

The bartender arrived with their drinks, interrupting him. Noah held out a twenty. “Keep the change.”

Joey picked up his bottle and raised it in a toast. “Here’s to getting lucky.”

Now that was a goal he could sign up for, but that wasn’t all he wanted from Cassie. Far from it. He knocked his bottle against Joey’s and slugged back the beer. “As I was saying, the problem is—actually there are three problems—this isn’t a date. We’re just hanging out. Second, Cassie hates Valentine’s Day. And I mean major phobia. And third, the biggest problem: she treats me like one of the girls.”

Joey choked on his beer and began coughing.

Noah slapped him on the back a few times, but when tears of amusement began trickling from the corners of his friend’s eyes, he swore and turned his back.

A few minutes later, when he had caught his breath, Joey tapped his arm. “Sorry man. Let’s just take this one problem at a time. She thinks you’re gay? Where’d she get that idea?”

Noah shook his head. “I don’t know if she thinks I’m gay exactly, but she obviously doesn’t see me as boyfriend material.”

Joey eyed him critically up and down. “You do kind of have the computer geek vibe going.”

“Why? Just because I don’t wear suits to work like those stuffed shirts in marketing?”

“Could be. Could also be the pressed jeans and Call of Duty T-shirt. Not to mention the glasses. Didn’t you get contacts recently?”

He looked down at his jeans. They weren’t pressed, for God’s sake; they were new. And the T-shirt had been a gift from his nephew.

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