Page 102 of Take My Heart
‘I’m not going.’ I walk to the door and open it. ‘Bye, Talia. Tell Julie I said hi.’
‘You’re seriously not going?’ Talia storms up to me. ‘You promised you’d do this!’
‘I have no memory of promising you that. And we’re not going out anymore so stop texting me.’
‘What do you mean we’re not going out? We had an agreement.’
‘And now we don’t.’
She huffs. ‘Why? Is there someone else?’
‘Yeah. There is.’
‘Who?’
‘Me.’ Kate races up beside me.
I put my arm around her and lean down to kiss her.
‘HER?’ Talia coughs and pretends to choke. ‘You’re choosing her over ME?’
Kate’s wearing sweats that are covered in paint. She has no makeup on and her hair’s in a ponytail, but she still looks hotter than Talia, all made up and wearing that skimpy dress.
‘Kate’s my girlfriend,’ I say, loving how that sounds. ‘We’ve been dating for weeks. I’m surprised you haven’t heard.’
‘I don’t know why I ever wasted my time with you, Brody,’ Talia says. ‘I could do so much better!’ She storms off to her car.
I shut the door and turn to Kate, kissing her like I haven’t seen her in weeks.
She pushes me back, laughing. ‘What’s going on with you?’
‘I just told her you’re my girlfriend. This is how I kiss my girlfriend.’
She smiles. ‘If I’d known that, I would’ve been your girlfriend weeks ago.’
‘Are you serious?’
She rolls her eyes. ‘Like you would’ve wanted that.’ She walks away.
‘Kate, hold on.’ I get in front of her. ‘What do you mean I wouldn’t want that?’
‘You’ve told me several times that you don’t want a girlfriend.’
‘When I said that, I didn’t mean forever.’
‘Yeah, but forever isn’t now. You like being single. Being abachelor. Going out with different girls. And by the way .?.?.’ She narrows her eyes at me. ‘You told me you hadn’t had sex in months. If I’d known you’d been with that girl, I would’ve been using protection this whole time.’
‘I didn’t have sex with Talia.’
‘She just said you did! Or she implied it.’
‘We didn’t have sex that night. We, um .?.?. she took care of me. Let’s leave it at that.’
‘Whatever. I don’t need to know.’ Kate walks past me to the kitchen. ‘Why don’t we just make dinner here?’ She opens the freezer. ‘Want a frozen pizza?’
I go over to her and shut the freezer door. ‘Can we just talk about this?’
‘About what?’
