Page 3 of Anywhere with You
Allison greets Blitzen with a warm smile. “Hello, Blitzen, I’m Allison. It’s nice to meet you.”
Of course, my horn dog friend is also obviously in lust with this girl; however, he doesn’t care to hide it. “The pleasure is all mine, beautiful,” he says to Allison as he bends down and kisses her on the cheek.What the fuck?
Without even thinking, I smack him on the back of the head. If anyone is calling dibs, it’s going to be me.
Watching another man, even one of my closest friends, touch her or kiss her throws me off kilter. If I didn’t know any better, I would say I was feeling jealous. But that’s not possible. I don’t do jealousy.I need to get laid.
Blitzen and I proceed to help the girls haul everything up to their dorm room. It takes us all of twenty minutes, and most of that time we were carrying Hailey’s things. Allison packed light. When I ask her about it, she just shrugs her shoulders. “I’m only forty minutes from home and plan to visit often,” she says as she continues to hang her clothes in her closet.
I’m taken aback by her answer. I have yet to encounter a girl, including my baby sister, who doesn’t care about the right clothes, shoes, and a whole other laundry list of accessories they can’t seem to live without. Just something else that adds to her appeal. Shaking out of my thoughts I plop down on the futon, Blitzen taking the seat next to me.
We’re both quiet as we watch the girls work, well, Allison work, when I get a text from Dash. He’s wondering where in the hell we are. I had told him we would be there in thirty minutes tops. That was an hour and a half ago. We stopped and got some lunch before coming here and well, we could have left a half hour ago, but the scenery was too good to pass up. Quickly, we say goodbye, and head to the field.
By the time we get there, Dash is raring to go. He’s pissed that we’re late, because he’s meeting with his best friend, Ash, later tonight. She’s a freshman this year at UNC and is arriving today.Dash insists they’re just friends and have been since he was thirteen and she was ten. He talks about her all the time, so, of course, we razz him about it being more. Honestly, either way it’s none of my business, but my boy thinks a lot of her. He warned us all last weekend to control ourselves and I quote,‘your horn dog ways around Ash, she’s different. Special’. Just friends my ass. I have yet to see a male and a female in a non-romantic relationship just being friends. I’m not saying that it’s impossible, but I’ve just never been witness to it before. Although he does date and Dash isn’t the type of guy to cheat, he’s better than that. So, maybe there is something to this just friends business. She’s here now, at the same college, living on campus so the truth is bound to come out.
CHAPTER 3
Allison
Hailey and I finished unpacking, and now we’re lying on our beds relaxing. We were fortunate to have a rather large dorm room with our own private bath and mini kitchenette. We easily unpacked all of our stuff in the shared space. She and I are both fairly laid back and haven’t had any issues agreeing yet. We’ve already discussed our class schedules, so we aren’t both trying to use the bathroom at the same time. Classes start on Monday, and we’re all set. College life, here we come.
“So,” Hailey says as she sits up on her bed, “you think my brother’s hot?”
“What? I—um, well, yeah, he’s nice to look at, but so is Blitzen,” I respond honestly. No sense in trying to deny it, she obviously saw me ogling them earlier today. “Can you honestly blame me? Two beefy, sexy as hell football players with bulging muscles helping us move. Hello, I’m only human.”
Hailey busts out in laughter. “First of all, EWWW! This is mybig brother we’re talking about. Second of all, forsaking the bloodlines, hell yeah, they’re both hot. Just wait until you see Dash, he’s just as gorgeous, more so than the other two, in my opinion.”
“Do I sense a small crush, Hales?”
“Just stating the facts,” she says, not committing to the conversation. I can tell she’s holding back. “So, what are your plans for tonight?”
“I’m meeting up with Ace. I’m supposed to meet him at Longhorn for dinner at seven. How about you, any plans?”
“I actually have a date with this guy Todd, who graduated with my brother. Todd’s a senior at Duke. Please, don’t tell Liam, he and Todd don’t exactly see eye-to-eye. Liam would flip his lid if he knew I was going out with Todd.”
“So, why go?” I ask, intrigued as to why the drama of the situation would be worth it.
Hailey shrugs. “It’s just a date, and it’s not like we’re getting married. Besides, I’m getting the full college experience and dating is a huge part of that.” She laughs.
“Well, alright then. Mums the word. Don’t tell Liam about Todd, got it.”
My cell beeps, alerting me of a new message.
Ace:Hey, are we still on for 7?
Me:Yes. Can’t wait 2 c u.
Ace:me 2 cu soon.
“Was that Ace?” Hailey asks me.
“Yeah, he was just making sure we were still on for tonight.”
“When am I going to get to meet this guy? Your best friend?” she questions. I can tell from her tone that she’s not fully convinced Ace is just my best friend.
“How about we make plans to all get together tomorrow night?” Seeing us together is the only way to prove it. He really is like a big brother to me.
“Sounds like a plan.”
