Page 118 of Connectio
“Oh my God!” I wriggle out of his grip. “Can we just move past that already?”
He chuckles. “Not gonna happen.”
Before I can put up some lame form of defence, Alexis waddles back into the room. “Will, can I borrow you for a second?”
He points to his chest then fires Bryce a shit-eating grin. “Sure.”
Bryce narrows his gaze then shrugs and goes back to flicking through the sheet music.
“Lib,” Carly says. “Rack ‘em up. You’re breaking.”
“But I’m worse than Derek.”
“Hey!” He picks up a guitar and tunes it. “For the last time, I let her win.”
“He’s so cute,” she says condescendingly.
I trudge to the pool table, place my wine glass on a ledge, and chalk my cue. “You’ve been warned. I really do suck at pool.”
“That’s because you suck at math.”
“I do not suck at math. I’ll have you know I’m better than most of our faculty, especially Oliver.”
“Speaking of Mr Bunt,” she says, wobbling her head like she always does when she says his name, “have you told him about Will yet?”
“It’s none of his business.”
“I know that. I just want to be there when you do it.”
Rolling my eyes, I bend over and try to line the cue between my knuckles. “Why? What’s the big deal?”
“What’s the big deal?” She rests her hands on the edge of the table. “Are you serious?”
“Yes. Why wouldn’t I be?” I push the cue and hit nothing but air. “Argh! See? I suck. You may as well play with yourself.”
She raises a seductive eyebrow. “I do.”
Derek nods.
“You know what I mean,” I say.
“Libby, Libby, Libby.” Carly moves to my side, rearranges the position of the cue in my hand, then steps back. “Move your arm back nice and slow, then bring it forward just as slowly. When you’re as good as me, that’s when you can slam the shit out of it.”
I do as I’m told and hit the white ball, but it doesn’t hit anything else.
“You’re supposed to aim for the coloured balls, yeah?”
I give her a deadpan look.
“Math, remember? It’s all about angles.”
“Since when are you any good at math?” I ask.
“Since it was the only subject at school I ever enjoyed.”
“Really?”
“Helped that the teacher was a fucking god!”
