Unraveling Josh by Edie Danford

Author:Edie Danford [Danford, Edie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Edie Danford
Published: 2016-06-01T07:00:00+00:00

Nick—present

I DON’T KNOW if Josh noticed I’d been blowing off the “getting together outside the tower” idea, but he let it ride for the next couple of weeks. My powers of persuasion involved massage, blowing, sucking and a new dildo I’d found for him that was strictly hypoallergenic and strictly hot when it made him leak and come until he screamed.

The being-outside-the-tower issue was forced for both of us when I walked into Eastern European History class one Tuesday and found him leaning against the front desk with Sheree the TA.

I’d stopped in my tracks just inside the door and the dude behind me plowed into my ass and dropped a bunch of books.

I cursed and the dude laughed, and Josh glanced up and saw me. He smiled and I tried to remember how to play it cool as I bent over to help the guy with his books. He brushed me off with a “Thanks, I’ve got it,” but I shoved a few books at him anyway.

He smiled and went to find a seat, but when I stood to do the same, I moved too fast and had to blink away the room-spins.

“Are you going to make it, McQueen?” Sheree asked, her voice cool. I wasn’t her favorite student. She liked to lecture. I liked to discuss.

“Yep.”

“Have a seat,” she said, tipping her curly head toward the auditorium-style seats.

I was still feeling dizzy—too much fooling around last night and too much coffee sans food this morning—so I blew off my usual choice of sitting in the back row and slipped into one of the seats in front.

As I scrambled to get my laptop from my bag, Sheree raised her voice to begin class. “I have news,” she said, pausing to wait for everyone to get settled. “This wasn’t going to happen until next quarter, but life is moving faster than I anticipated. I’m sure you’ll all appreciate how rare it is to be offered a job in this field, and so I know you’ll forgive me for abandoning you with a few weeks to go in the quarter.”

I looked up to see her smiling—an appreciative, friendly smile, not a cloying, kiss-up smile, but it still bugged the shit out of me—at Josh. “But,” Sheree said, putting her small hand on Josh’s forearm, “I’m abandoning you into very capable hands. Everyone, this is Josh Pahlke.”

Josh. Josh was gonna be teaching this class. My gaze was fixed on his lower half. One hip was hitched on the desk and one leg dangled—he was swinging it back and forth, casually, not nervous. I knew firsthand how those muscles worked and moved and felt. But here, in this classroom, even though his body was three feet from mine, he seemed…untouchable.

I forced my gaze to my laptop’s screen. Josh was gonna be the new TA? Why didn’t I know this? Why was it so fricking weird to see him here? Crazy that I thought of this as my turf and not his. I mean, he was here at Ellery to do history research.

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