How Not to Date a Rock Star (The Extra Series Book 8) by Megan Walker & Janci Patterson

Author:Megan Walker & Janci Patterson [Walker, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance
Publisher: Garden Ninja Books
Published: 2020-04-19T16:00:00+00:00

Eight

Kevin

I’m in the middle of scrolling through the latest streaming service offerings in the horror genre when Maya Skypes me. I answer mid-scroll. “Hey gorgeous,” I say, glancing at the screen. “Looks like we finally have some new movies to add to our list.”

“That’s cool,” Maya says. Something in her voice makes me put down my remote. She’s looking off to the side, not quite paying attention to the screen, but also not fully focused on something else, like homework.

“Everything okay?” I ask.

“Yeah, sure,” she says.

But it isn’t. I can tell. I wonder if she’s gotten some bad news about her health. She’s been available fewer nights lately, which I assume means she’s needing to get more rest. I know she says that her illness comes and goes, and sometimes she needs more sleep and that’s just how it is.

But I still worry about her.

“So,” she says, sounding like she’s trying to bring something up casually but doing exactly the opposite. “I’ve been meaning to tell you something.”

“Yeah?” I say. I can already tell it isn’t something good. “What’s that?”

“Um, about this guy.” She bites her lip and looks up at the ceiling before continuing, all in one breath. “MyboyfriendTed.”

It takes me a second to parse that.

Her boyfriend.

Her boyfriend, Ted?

“Uh, okay,” I say. I manage not to blurt out any of the things I’m thinking, which go in this order:

You have a boyfriend?

And you didn’t tell me?

How long has that been going on?

A hot wave washes over me, and it takes me a minute to figure out what it is. I’m embarrassed. I’m fucking mortified that I haven’t been with another girl in over three months and meanwhile she’s had a boyfriend for an undetermined period of time. I mean, she doesn’t owe me anything. We’re just friends, a fact that we’ve reaffirmed many times in the months we’ve known each other.

But we’ve spent so much time talking—hours and hours every week, and all this time, she’s had a—

“Yeah,” she says. “I probably should have mentioned that, I guess? I mean, I told Ted it’s not like we really talk about our dating lives, you know. It’s just not our style, right?”

What?

“Uh, yeah,” I say. “Sure.” Meanwhile, I’m trying to figure out what she means by not our style. How many guys has she been seeing over the last several months? I mean, I knew she went out on dates. She’s mentioned a couple here and there as reasons she might not be able to hang out. Usually, though, she’s texting me by ten o’clock Mountain time on those nights, so I definitely didn’t think it was anything serious.

Does she think I’ve been dating? I sure as hell would have told her if I had a girlfriend.

Maya seems relieved, though I can’t imagine why. “Good. I told him it was no big deal. He seemed to think it was some kind of issue that I hadn’t told you about him, but I really don’t see why—”

“Yeah, I bet he did.” It comes out with more force than I want it to, but all this emotion has to go somewhere.

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