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“What, what?”
“You look different. I don’t know, shy or something.” I step aside and let him in.
“I’m not shy. Why would I be shy? There’s no reason to be shy.”
Okay…well, something is certainly going on. I close the door and lean against it. “It was nothing.” The best way to deal with this is to get it out in the open. I’m not one for tiptoeing around issues.
“What was nothing?” Theo asks.
“Us. Outside of Shenanigans that night. I didn’t expect anything then, and I don’t expect anything now. I’m charming and irresistible. I get it. But I don’t think anything has changed between us. We’re friends, and you aren’t into guys.”
He crosses his arms. “You’re resistible. I resist you.”
A light feeling starts in my chest before it comes out of my mouth in a chuckle. “Yeah, sure, whatever you say.”
“I do resist you! And I’m not freaking out about that night. I know it was nothing. Just a thing…where we stood close. And you had your hands on my hips. And…” He waves his hands. “You were there. I don’t know why I’m explaining it to you.”
I can’t help but chuckle again. Everything about him is so fucking cute. “Your hands were on me too.”
“Hmm?”
“Your hands, Theo. They were on me too. Do you want something to drink?” I walk past him and into the kitchen. The padding of feet behind me says Theo is following me.
“Wait. My hands were on you too?”
“Yes. Water, soda, beer, or lemonade?”
“Lemonade. Why don’t I remember?”
Now it’s my turn to say, “Huh?”
“I don’t remember that. You’d think I’d remember that.”
“So first you can’t tell I’m flirting with you, and then you don’t remember touching me? Seriously need to up my game,” I mumble playfully.
“I wasn’t… I didn’t… That’s not what I meant.”
“I’m giving you shit, Puppy. Relax.” I fill two glasses, then head toward my bedroom.
I get to the hallway when he says, “We’re not doing it out here?”
His question stops me. Doing it? I groan.
“What? Why did you do that?”
“No reason.”
“There has to be a reason.”
“You said doing it,” I reply like a twelve-year-old.
Theo pauses, looks at me, cocks his head, then laughs. I roll my eyes, but there’s a smile on my lips too.
“Don’t laugh at me, Puppy. You’re wearing gray sweatpants, for Christ’s sake!”
“What’s wrong with gray sweatpants?” He follows me to my room.
“They short-circuit my brain. Are you okay being in here? We can stay in the living room if you prefer.”
