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ground and pulled a quilt over me. This whole thing was growing ridiculous. I didn’t know why I was even going along with it.
    “You can’t go to bed yet,” he said, sounding indignant.
    “I’m not. I’m just settling in because I’m sure you’ll eventually leave.”
    “Not happening,” he said, lowering himself next to me and under my blanket.
    “Don’t you have some girl you need to be screwing right now?” I asked, kicking him in the shin lightly.
    He shook his head. “No and stop hogging the blanket.”
    “I’m not sharing this blanket with you. Get your own.”
    Adrian sighed loudly as he grabbed a blanket by his feet and threw it over him.
    “So why are you really here?” I asked as we settled into a comfortable silence. “Why are you making sheet-forts with me?”
    “Because you seem like you had a neglected childhood…”
    “Adrian, be serious for once. Why are you here?”
    He glanced over at me and shook his head. “Are you really going to make me tell you?”
    “Yes. I am.”
    “Fine,” he said, rubbing a hand over his face. “It’s because for some godforsaken reason I like you and I want to spend time with you.”
    “You like me?” My question came out breathless and squeaky. I bit down on my bottom lip as I stared at him and a giggle escaped my mouth at the absurdity of this whole thing.
    “You don’t even know my name,” I added on a laugh. “You’re always such a dick to me.”
    “Yeah, well it’s blowing my mind too, okay?” He frowned. “Don’t laugh.”
    “I can’t help it. It’s too crazy…” My laughter trailed off as I stared at him. “Wait…you don’t like-like me, right?”
    “What do you mean, ‘like-like’?”
    “I mean like like-like.”
    “What the fuck does that mean?” He was growing annoyed so I held up my hands.
    “I mean like do you like me more than a friend because that would be…”
    His eyes narrowed slightly. “Be what?”
    “Weird?”
    “So it would be weird if I liked you as more than a friend. Is that a bad thing?”
    “Yes!” I don’t know why I said that, but the word just slipped out. The thought of dating Adrian wasn’t the worst thing considering the guys I’d met recently. But even so, if anything did happen between Adrian and I, I knew I would be the one broken at the end of it all. He was the epitome of everything I didn’t like in guys and yet, for some reason I still enjoyed being around him.
    But it couldn’t ever be anything more than sheet-forts and sexting. Because Adrian Thatcher was a womanizer and womanizers never gave girls forever.
    Adrian stared at me for a moment before asking, “Why is it a bad thing…I’m not saying I like-like you or whatever, but if I did, why does it revolt you so much?”
    “Do you really want to know?”
    “I wouldn’t ask if I didn’t want to know.”
    Don’t do it. He’ll never lay you if you tell him what you really think…
    “Fine, well, you sleep around too much. I wouldn’t trust you if we were together. I’d always wonder if you were wishing you were with someone else. You’re way to into yourself. I can tell by the way you strut around, showing off your perfect body, and you take absolutely nothing seriously. I can’t stand a guy who hides behind humor instead of really opening up and examining how he really feels,” I added on an exhaled breath.
    I glanced over at Adrian as an extended silence pulsed between us.
    “Well shit, Janice. That was pretty harsh…”
    “And I hate how you continually pretend not to know my name.”
    “Anything else?” he asked.
    I scoured my mind for anything else I’d like to add but came up blank.
    “Nope. I’m good,” I said with a small smile.
    I could feel Adrian’s eyes on me and I avoided his gaze. I’d never been that honest with anyone in my entire life and I enjoyed how it felt. For some reason I felt I could be open with Adrian without repercussions and it was liberating.
    I heard the blanket rustle