"You were with Lydia? You two were pissing on each other."
She giggled. "Not literally, but she explained a few things to me and I feel for her…sort of…not really. Oh well. So I'm not going to the game tonight so that means you don't have to go either. I know I was the only reason you were going anyway."
I picked at some lint on my bedcover. "I might've gone to cheer for Adam too…"
"Aw." Her voice melted. "That's so sweet. I'll make sure to tell him. It'll mean a lot to him. He doesn't think you care about him at all."
"Are you kidding me?" I grumbled into the phone. "You're the one that likes him."
"Yeah, but he doesn't like me."
"You're a bit not right in the head, Becky."
"I know!" she chirped again, followed by a giggle. "He held my hand to the car."
"Were you falling down drunk?"
"That and the sand was really tricky to walk through."
"I'm sure it was." I laid back down on the bed and closed my eyes. Something was telling me this phone call wasn't going to let me go back to sleep anytime soon.
"So, what'd you do last night?"
I grinned into the phone. "Well, I didn't get drunk and hold hands with my crush all night long."
She giggled again. "I wish it was all night long. Maybe I could get drunk more? You think he'd do that every time?"
"No."
"Yeah, you're right." She sighed. "It'd be nice, though. I wish I could hold his hand all the time."
"Why don't you just ask him out?"
"Because he doesn't like me. How many times do I have to tell you?"
"Whatever." I gripped the phone tighter. "I think there's something there. Maybe he'd have to man up and make a decision already."
Silence.
I sighed.
There was more silence on the phone.
Then I asked, "Did I say something wrong?"
Her voice was timid. "It's not that easy for some of us."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Sometimes all we have is our imagination."
I frowned and cursed under my breath. "Your imagination? Your fairytale that's holding you back?"
She sucked in her breath.
I bit back another curse. I'd forgotten Becky was one of those girls. "I'm sorry."
"For what?" She sounded like she had started to cry.
I cursed myself and hit my forehead with my hand. "For not being sensitive."
"It's okay," she hiccupped.
"No, I really am sorry."
"I know." She hiccupped again. "It's okay. I know you didn't mean it."
I gritted my teeth, but said nothing. The problem was that I did mean it; I meant every word of it and more.
"So, since we're not going to the game, my mom said you could come over tonight. You want to come over here? I think we'll do dinner and movies."
"Um." How could I lie myself out of this one? "My mom said something about dinner too."
"She did?"
"Yeah." I sat up and scooted to the edge of the bed. "But I don't know. I'm not sure what I should do. I might still go and cheer for Adam tonight."
"You're going to go alone?" She sounded so small.
"Maybe. I don't know."
"I don't want you to be alone."
"Oh no. I'll be fine."
My door opened at that moment and Logan stuck his head inside. When he saw I was on the phone, he lifted a hand in a half-wave and frowned at me. I motioned for him to go away, but he only grinned and pushed the door open to come inside.
"Uh," I said in a hurry. "I have to go, Becky. I'll call you later."
"You're really going to the game still? Alone?"
"Oh yeah. I'll be fine."
Logan stood right behind me. I turned around and he breathed on my neck now. I tried to shove him away.
"Okay…"
"See ya. I'll call you tonight." And I hung up, breathless. Then I whirled around. "What are you doing?"
He smirked at me.
"This is my room. This is my privacy. Get out."
He laughed. "You're just pissed because one of your friends might've heard me."
"Do you blame me?"
"Nah, guess not." And he threw himself backwards on my bed before he scooted back to sit against the wall. "So you're coming tonight? You're going to cheer on your future brothers?"
My lip curled up in disgust. "Don't say that word again."
"Brothers?" Logan's hyena laugh came out and he twisted to chortle into my pillow. "I cnn't beliff ith."
I sighed and rolled my eyes before I took hold of his arm and started to pull him up. "Come on. Get out. I want to go for a run."
He dodged my hand and chuckled when he went to the door. "You should run with Mason sometime."
"What?"
"You should run with Mason sometime."
"What do you mean by that?"
He lifted a shoulder in the air. "He runs too, most of it's at practice, but I bet he'd smoke you."
I quirked an eyebrow up. "You think so?"
He puffed out his chest. "I know so."
"I can run for hours."