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She sneers with disappointment.
I raise a finger. “Hold on. The story’s not finished.”
She relaxes.
“Anyway, I told him not to worry about it. I’d just have you come back and give me a jump in the morning.”
“Why would I do that? I don’t know how to do that.”
“Eh, you know me.” I shrug. “I was nervous. I wanted to yeet myself out of that situation as quickly as possible... but then he offered to give me a ride home.”
“And... you accepted that offer, right?” she asks, cautiously optimistic.
I smile. “Yes, I did.”
Jenna gasps with surprise. “Really?”
“He was here. In this house.”
She squints at the room. “I knew I sensed hot guy the other day.”
“He wasn’t here for very long,” I say. “Just a few minutes, but that’s all it took for me to make a complete ass of myself.”
“What did you do?”
“I invited him in to dry off. We got kind of wet in the rain.”
Her brow piques. “Go on…”
“We got to talking. It really seemed like we were clicking for a bit, but then...” My cheeks heat all over again. “I kinda... sneezed on his face.”
“Yeah, you did,” she says, biting her devious lip.
“No, seriously. That wasn’t some dirty metaphor. I literally sneezed... on his face.”
She pauses, slowly deflating. “Oh.”
“He left. Immediately. He could not have bolted fast enough.”
“Oh, honey.” She pats my hand. “I would have, too.”
I exhale. “I thought that was the end but then he was waiting for me at my car the next morning with jumper cables.”
“Interesting...”
“He asked me out for last night, but I’d already promised you I’d hang, so I declined.”
“Uh, pause.” She raises a finger. “When a hot model asks you out on a night when you already have plans, you cancel those plans. You hear me?”
I laugh. “Lesson learned. Didn’t matter, though. We ended up at the same party he invited me to. Somehow.”
“Fate, honey. It was fate.”
“Doubtful.”
“So, that’s why he let you in with that bogus ID?”
“I guess so. Then...” I frown. “Seth happened.”
