True by Erin McCarthy

Author:Erin McCarthy
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Kylie and Nathan were snuggled up in Nathan’s room, and Tyler was out on a beer run when Grant showed up. I went to answer the knock on the door, assuming it would be Tyler. Someone must have accidentally turned the button on the doorknob and locked it, because the door to the apartment was almost never locked. But when I opened it, Grant was standing there, slouched, shaggy hair down over his eyes, hands deep in his front pockets.

My smile disappeared and a pit of tension formed in my stomach. “Oh. Hi.”

“Hey.” Grant moved forward to step into the apartment and for a second I forgot to shift out of the way, stunned to see him standing there so casual, a sheepish smile on his face.

When I blocked his entry by not moving, his eyebrows went up as he turned sideways, his body closer to mine than I would have liked. “Can I come in?”

That pulled me out of my paralysis. Whereas before I didn’t move, now I did too quickly, stumbling over my feet as I jerked backward out of his way. “Sure.” It wasn’t my apartment. I had no right to tell him he couldn’t come in, and I guessed that Nathan had invited him over to watch the football game along with everyone else. I couldn’t exactly ask Nathan though as he and Kylie were having some kind of reunion sex in his room. Kylie’s split lip had prompted Nathan to call her and beg to see her, and she had forced me along with her as moral support.

Not that I had minded, because I knew Tyler would be there.

But not Grant. I hadn’t expected that. Ignoring him, I shut the door and went back to the small kitchen, where I had been cutting up cheese for crackers and heating pizza rolls for the game-viewing.

Unfortunately, he followed me into the kitchen. “Where is everyone?”

“Tyler is at the store. Kylie and Nathan are in his room.”

Grant made a face. “No Jessica?”

“No.” I remembered then what he had said to me that night about passing that kiss on to Jessica. I busied myself carefully spacing out pizza rolls on a cookie sheet I had found in the drawer under the stove.

“Hey, listen, um, about that night . . .”

Great. “We don’t have to talk about this,” I told him. In fact, I’d rather do anything but talk about it.

“I just want to say sorry. I was totally fucked up, and I mean, I thought you wanted to . . . I thought you were kissing me back.”

He sounded so pained and uncomfortable with the whole conversation that I momentarily felt sympathy for him. I had kissed him back. There was no arguing with that. When I glanced over at him, he looked even thinner to me now than he ever had. I wasn’t sure if he had lost weight in the weeks since that night or if it was just my perception now that I was used to Tyler.

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