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me.”
    “Always.”
    I leaned my head against hers and we sat there for a few minutes while I tried to get Josh out of my head.
    “Shit.”
    Morgan kept her arms around my waist, but her head turned toward me. “What?”
    I groaned. “How do I explain this to Em without her figuring out that she was right?”
    She cringed. “Shit is right. I don’t think that’s possible.”
    I rolled my eyes. “Well that can be a problem for tomorrow, since I won’t see her till then.”
    Acting like the true friend she was, Morgan let go of me and stood up with her hand out. “Come on, let’s go get breakfast and we can worry about all of this crap tomorrow.”
    I smiled and took her hand and she pulled me to my feet. “Good idea. Give me a few minutes to shower and change and I’ll be ready.”
    She nodded and went back out to the living room but instead of heading for the shower, I sat down on my bed and thought about Josh. Morgan was right, even if I maybe wanted more time with Josh, it wasn’t what he did. I needed to figure out a way to forget about him and avoiding him on campus seemed like a good place to start. It was only one night, I could use it to learn from my mistakes and move on. No problem.
    Well, at least I hoped it wouldn’t be.

 
     
     
    Waking up slowly I rolled to wrap my arms around Lauren, but when my hands hit empty sheets my eyes flew open. What the hell?
    I looked around my room, searching for any sign that she was still there, or in the very least somewhere else in the apartment. Nothing. She’d snuck out of my bed in the middle of the night. Looking over to the clock I realized that it was a little after ten in the morning. What time must she have left for me to not hear her get up?
    This had to happen with the first woman I was actually looking forward to waking up to. I wasn’t quite sure why I felt that way, but there was just something about her. She was extremely sexy. And last night… wow! I’d never had a woman take control like Lauren and I couldn’t deny it had been fan-fucking-tastic.
    Realizing that I was starting to sound exactly like the sort of pussy-whipped guy I generally laughed at, I stopped and shook my head. What was I doing? Dwelling on a night of great sex wasn’t like me. Normally, I was doing everything I could to get the chick out of my bed as soon as possible. The fact that she’d left was a reason to celebrate, not commiserate, so why didn’t it feel that way?
    I reasoned that my feelings must have something to do with Caleb proposing to Angie. Somewhere in the back of my head, my subconscious was probably trying to tell me to find someone, but I knew that wouldn’t be happening any time soon because I wasn’t going to settle for anything less than what Caleb had with Angie.
    Shit. Caleb and Angie would probably be home soon. I really didn’t want to tell them about sleeping with Lauren, and not just because I told Caleb I’d stay away, or because Angie would most likely tell Emily. This time it was something that I wanted to keep to myself. It was no one’s business but mine and Lauren’s. Deciding that I had spent enough time thinking about all this shit, I slowly I dragged myself out of bed to jump in the shower.
    Despite making the effort to get dressed, I figured that a day of relaxation was in order. For the last few weeks we’d all run around like crazy, trying to get everything ready for Angie’s party so a day of vegging out on the couch watching crap TV was well deserved in my opinion. The problem was, I couldn’t get Lauren out of my head.
    After a while I decided the best plan was to try and forget about her and hit the bars tomorrow night. I’d ask Caleb to come with me when he got home. He probably wouldn’t want to go, but it was worth a shot. Besides, Nick was always up for a night out. Ever since he’d lost Angie to Caleb he was constantly looking for someone to hook up with, and the easiest place to find that was out at the bars. I