Page 53 of Spin The Bottle
A heavy sigh escapes him. “You believe everything, huh? You’re like my mom when she reads something she saw on the internet.”
I lift my brow at him. “I’ve seen it,” I remind him.
“Of course,” he says, rolling his eyes. “How can I forget? The media are always right.”
“I still love you.” I blow him a kiss, watching as he scowls at me. “Even if you have playboy tendencies.” Madi in the corner of the room catches my eye, and I quickly turn to Lucas. “I’ve got to go. Talk to you soon.”
“Tchau.”
“Who was that?” Madi asks, sitting beside me on the couch when I hang up. “Aiden?”
I freeze, glancing at her. “Why would it be Aiden?”
She shrugs, smirking. “After that kiss…”
I shake my head. “That was ages ago. Nothing happened.” Fine, I’m lying, but this thing with Aiden is too confusing to even make sense of myself, never mind telling my nosey friends. “And nothing is ever going to happen, not with someone like him.”
“You’ve slept with athletes before.” She tucks her feet under her legs. “What makes him so different?”
I blink at her. “The fact that he’s way out of my league?”
She scoffs. “That’s an excuse if I’ve ever heard one. There’s no league, Leila. There is attraction, and that boy wanted to ravish you at that party, no doubt about it.”
“That’s not true.” But as I’m saying the words, I think back to the other night, every gasp and moan and groan and his hands. His huge hands all over my body, feeling, squeezing.
“And last week? Where did you go? You told us you were going to the bathroom and then next thing we know, we get a text saying ‘had to go, don’t wait for me’?”
I shrug. “I had a test I had to study for.”
She presses her lips together. “We just finished midterms. Try again.”
“I…I…” Think of something. Anything.
“I?”
I blow out a breath. “Damn, woman, get off my case.”
She laughs, shaking her head. “I rest my case.”
“You’d be a damn good lawyer, almost crapped my pants.”
She sighs. “Don’t start. I already have my parents on my case.”
I hold my hands up. “No pressure from me. So what are you doing here?”
She flashes a stack of papers in my face. “I need to rehearse. I have an audition next week and I can’t concentrate. Gabi is playing video games with some guy, and if I didn’t love her so much I would have told her to shush, but… she seemed so happy.”
“When is Gabi ever not happy?”
Madi shakes her head. “This was different. She was blushing, Leila. It was weird. I didn’t have the heart to stop her.”
Gabi blushing? That’s new. “I’m intrigued.”
“Me too.” She holds up the papers again, giving me a sweet smile. “Will you help me?”
“I’m not an actress.”
“You don’t need to be,” she says. “You’re just a stand-in.”
