Page 78 of Ghost of a Chance
Nervous wasn’t a word he’d ever apply to her but there was definitely something uncertain about her.
“Yeah.Were you in a sorority?”
“Nope.Too expensive.Mom and I were barely getting me to classes,” she said.
“Did you want to?”
“Not after watching rush videos on TikTok.I mean the pressure to get into the right one, that would be too much for me.Was it like that for you?”
“Nah.I just applied and got in.Money wasn’t an issue because…well, you know my dad died and we got a huge payout.My college was set.”He smiled ruefully.Some luck.
“Was that weird?”
“In what way?”
“To know that he…never mind.Sometimes I don’t have a filter and just ask things that I shouldn’t.”
“Sometimes?”he teased.He could guess what she was about to ask.He’d never really thought about the source of the money so it hadn’t felt odd at all.
“Ha.You don’t seem to mind it,” she said.
“I don’t.I like knowing where I stand with you.When I’m an ass you tell me, when I’m not you let me know as well,” he said, slinging his arm around her shoulder.He’d already checked with the house and knew they were having a party tonight, which he’d gotten the okay to attend.“So is this your first frat party?”
He wasn’t entirely sure why it mattered to him, but he wanted to be the first to do things with her.To have those experiences together.
“Uh…no.I’ve been to a few.”
Dropping his arm, he glanced at her.“Was not expecting that.So did you like it?”
“There were a lot of people which made it hard to talk.The music was pretty good.I danced for a while and back then…well I was really focused on studying so wasn’t into drinking.”
“Probably something I should have done,” he said ruefully.
“You’re okay, remember?”
God, this woman.She got him.The urge to kiss was right there but he was enjoying learning about college Kirsty too much at the moment.
“I can hear the drumbeat of the music inside, maybe we can have a dance?”
“Perhaps.”
But there was a smile in her eyes.
“So who’d you come to the frat with?Study group…were you in one?”
“No.I don’t play well with others.”She smirked when she said it.
“You play okay with me, Gia and Dan.”
“Yeah, but you guys are my gang.”
“So who’d you go to the frat with?”
“Just a guy that I was tutoring.Things sort of heated up and he asked me out.Things happened and he invited me to the winter formal.”
Damn.Who was that guy?“Oh so you were getting really into Greek Life.”
“Not so much.He dumped me before the dance, said I was too weird.He did it at one of those Friday night parties… I guess like this one.I had finished helping him with a paper he’d been writing.I was asking him about the dance.Some other people were around.”She stopped talking.“That was the past and we’re here to relive yours.”
