Better Be Sure: Harrison Campus Book #1 by Andy Gallo & Anyta Sunday

Author:Andy Gallo & Anyta Sunday [Gallo, Andy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Outside the house, Jack pulled his hoodie up against a cool drizzle.

“Jack, wait up!” Marcus called from behind him. “Here.” An umbrella was thrust into Jack’s hand. “You’re gonna need it later.”

“You went up to get this for me?”

“Not just yours, I forgot mine too.” They walked through campus, rain tapping on their umbrellas, shoes splashing through shallow puddles. Marcus slowed as they approached the humanities building.

“Brittany dragged me back to the café where Loch Ness works yesterday.”

Yesterday being three days after his birthday evening at Studio 63. Two days since Jack had snuck over to Ed’s.

Jack nudged Marcus. “I thought you weren’t going to call her that?”

“I didn’t do it to her face. I did what you suggested; I was nice to her.”

Jack laughed. “Or at least as nice as you could be.”

“Ask Brit, I was good.”

“And how did Vanessa react?”

“Like her normal psychotic self.” Marcus shook his head. “She glared at me, huffed while taking our order, practically threw the food at me, and her one attempt at nice was to thank me for not bringing my bag with me for her to trip on.”

Jack wasn’t so surprised after the way Marcus had ignored Nessa’s attempts to be friendly at Studio 63. He shook his head. Sooner or later these two would figure it out.

“Look,” Jack said, “I gotta rush to class—”

“What’s up, man?”

“What?”

“You’ve been distant lately.”

Jack shrugged. “Nah, I’m fine. Good.”

“That’s a load of bullshit.” Marcus stepped closer and their umbrellas bumped, making the collected water rain between them. “You alternate between being glued to your phone screen and looking at me like I’m about to tear into you. What’s going on?”

Spit it out. Now is the perfect time to tell him. As any other day the last week would have been.

He couldn’t bear the fallout when Marcus realized the state of his bet. Thing was, Marcus would always be at his back. He’d do whatever Jack needed to make him happy. He’d willingly put up with years of Harper giving them shit if Jack asked him to.

Jack hated the thought. It twisted his gut that he’d be the reason his best friend—and all his friends—suffered. Folding and losing the bet seemed like a shitty thing to do. Convincing Ed to come along was an even shittier one under the circumstances. And the idea of finding someone—anyone else—to take for the night felt… too much like cheating.

He could explain his situation to Ed. Tell him why he needed to take another date and that it wouldn’t mean anything, but as soon as he mentioned the bet, it would be putting pressure on Ed to be the one to come with him. Pressure Ed had left his last boyfriend for.

Which brought him back to the point: he was screwed.

He didn’t know how to tell his best friend that.

Marcus smirked. “Okay, man, I got you. You two aren’t getting enough time to get it out of your system.”

Jack shook his head just as his Chem professor walked past. “I’m late—can we talk later?”

Marcus lifted a brow.

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