Pop Life by Ryan Loveless

Author:Ryan Loveless
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Silver Publishing
Published: 2011-06-20T04:00:00+00:00

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"Did you like what you saw today?" Jeff asked. We were in the back of a taxi together. It was nine in the evening; Jamie was scheduled to go on at nine-fifteen, and we were probably thirty minutes from the venue. Jeff was wearing baggy jeans that had slipped below his hips, exposing the waistband of his Banana Republic briefs as he sat. He glanced over at me and wandered his eyes up and down my body, somehow making me feel even more exposed in my borrowed leather pants and oversized shirt than he was with his skivvies showing.

"What?" I asked. I had convinced myself that he didn't know that I was watching, that he had jumped against my door for a lark without knowing it was mine.

"I wanted you to watch us." Jeff scooted towards me. "Why do you think I stopped Paeder where I did?"

"I don't know."

"I thought you might come out to play if you saw how much fun we were having."

"I… What?" Jeff crowded against me like a giant cat. Or a wolf. Jamie would say a wolf.

"Did I scare you? Or thrill you? It's all the same, isn't it?"

"What? Wait, uh…" He was too close, both to me and to the truth. I flattened my back against the door.

"You're a hard one, you know. I'm not used to having to try to get a guy's attention."

"You still don't have mine. I'm with Jamie."

"Did he tell you to say that?"

I shrugged, which was difficult given my position. "You're busy helping Paeder cheat on Keelin. I think your plate is full."

He'd gotten close enough to brush my cheek with his stubble, but he pulled back. "You think I should be exclusive with the guy who's cheating on his wife, boyfriend, and me?"

"You think Paeder is cheating on you?" The idea shocked me into forgetting that I was trying to get intimate with the door handle, and I slid back into the seat.

"He's known me longer than he's known his wife," Jeff said. He looked at me as if I should agree with him. I stared at him, pretty sure that he could see how flabbergasted I was.

"All right. How about a kiss? Just one, just to see, and then I'll leave you alone."

"Just to see what?" I inched towards the door again. I glanced at the cabbie, who was talking on his phone, ignoring us.

"Why, to see if you're my true love, of course." Jeff grinned. "Like in the movies." He scooted closer to me. "Please, just one kiss? It's just that you're so pretty." His eyelashes brushed my cheek. I had my head against the window as I tried to figure out where to push in order to back him off me. "Has anyone told you that? I bet someone has."

Only Jamie. Before that, no one.

Jeff pulled back and hovered, watching. His eyes darted over my face, searching for something, and returned to my eyes. "Say yes," he said softly.

I held onto his gaze for another minute.

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