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I shake off the thoughts as I stop in front of him. “Hey,” I say.
“Hey,” he says.
“What’s up?” I ask.
He nods, the question loaded. “We need to talk,” he says.
I stiffen, and he chuckles. “You’ve got to stop doing that to me, man…”
“I’m sorry,” he says, smiling as he opens the classroom door beside him. “Come on.”
I walk inside, and he closes it behind us. With a quick glance to make sure the room is empty, I lean against a desk and cross my arms.
“Are you okay? We missed you in class.”
“Yeah, I’m fine,” he answers. “Something came up, that’s all.”
I almost don’t want to ask, but his face is full of words unspoken. “What came up?”
Drew clears his throat as he leans on the desk across from mine. “I couldn’t do it,” he says.
“You couldn’t do what?”
“Be naked in front of all those people.”
“Why not?” I ask. “I thought you were okay with it.”
“I was going to,” he says. “You were cool with it and I was cool with it, or so I thought I was.” He takes a breath. “After the other night, I just couldn’t bring myself to share that part of me with anyone else. Anyone but you.”
I smile. “Really?”
“Yeah.”
“The girlfriend conversation really got to you, huh?”
He chuckles. “It didn’t hit me at the time what that really meant, you know? It meant commitment. And trust. And... all those things I’d never even thought about before. Until I met you. Then, I thought about how good it felt to be with you like that and I just...” He shrugs. “I told Professor Wilson something came up. Gave her a list of names so she could find a replacement at the last minute.” He squints. “Who showed, by the way?”
“Uh...” I wince. “Corey.”
“Oof,” he says.
I laugh. “Yeah, I don’t think he’ll be invited back anytime soon.”
“What did he do?”
“Jenna told me the term was helicoptering. I took her word for it and decided not to look it up myself.”
He chuckles. “I will send Professor Wilson an apology.”
“Good idea.”
Drew stands up and bridges the gap between us in one smooth stride. “Do you have any plans tonight?” he asks.
“Oh, yeah.”
“Yeah?”
“You’ve got me on a busy night,” I say. “I was going to crash the Beta Kappa party, then join the pub crawl until I was too wasted to drive myself home.”
