Page 52 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol. 1
Sunday
As soon as I locked the door, Melissa switched the lights on.
"Where the hell have you been?! I texted you like ten times, Penny!"
I pulled Professor Hunter's suit jacket tighter around myself. I just wanted to be back in his arms. "I..."
"Oh my God. Oh my God! Were you on a date?"
"No."Crap, why did I just lie? I'm so bad at this!
"Penny, you're wearing a men's suit jacket."
"Yeah, sorry. I meant yes. Yes, I was on a date."
"I knew it! You and Tyler were being so ridiculous earlier, but you just needed a little persuading. He ditched that party on Friday night just to hang out with you. There were tons of girls there. He chose you. He's like the complete opposite of Austin. I'm so happy for you."
"No, not with Tyler."
"What?"
"I wasn't on a date with Tyler."
I could tell she was getting annoyed with me.
"Yeah, I heard you. I meant who were you with?"
"It was someone new."
"Penny, who?"
"His name is James." I could feel myself start to blush, remembering when I had challenged him and called him James on the golf course. I walked over to my dresser and pulled out a pair of sweatpants and a t-shirt and began to change.
"Well, where did you meet?"
I should have known I couldn't get off that easily. "My Intro to Marketing class," I lied.
"No wonder you like him," she said and picked up his suit jacket from the back of my chair. "He wears the same cologne as that professor you had a crush on. Yummy."
Oh shit!"Oh, really? I hadn't noticed."
Melissa laughed. "Don't pretend you didn't snuggle up to your professor's sweater at night."
I didn't know she had seen me do that. "Okay, fine, I did notice. That's actually what first attracted me to him." That seemed reasonable enough.
Melissa no longer looked mad at me, just super curious. I'd rather her be mad and not speak to me. I was going to have a hard time keeping track of all these lies.
"So tell me about him," she said and sat back down on her bed.
"I'm pretty tired. Can I tell you about him tomorrow?"
"Yeah, not happening. You made me worry about you till...what time is it? It's 2 a.m., Penny! I think I deserve at least a few details."
"Okay." I sat cross-legged on my bed and looked at her. If I stuck to true things, it wouldn't really be lying. "Well he's unbelievably handsome, apparently wealthy, and he's a little older than me."I thought about Professor Hunter's suggestion of telling her how it was the best sex of my life, and blushed.
"Wait, how much older? I thought you said you met in class? Is he like a foreign exchange student or something?"
Why am I so bad at this?"I meant I met him after my marketing class. I ran into him on Main Street. Literally."
