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I nodded, numb. "Yeah."
Piper walked into the room in a light blue dress with a neckline so low, my breath caught in my throat. The thinnest straps known to man kept the dress up. I’d never really thought about how tall Piper was around everybody else, but in heels, she easily cleared six feet.
Willowy. Long, lean, gorgeous, showing a hint of those legs with every step
Her blonde hair curled over her shoulder, soft strands framing her face perfectly. And the red lipstick…I’d never seen Piper in that before…
My heart knocked around in my chest. I stared.
Goddamn.
"Um, Adam?" Amanda’s chuckle brought me back to the present.
I blinked.
Oh, shit. Right.
All of my plans short-circuited on my way to Piper. There were things I wanted to say, jokes I wanted to make, and I couldn’t remember one damn thing. I wanted to say something to Piper. What did I want to say to Piper?
I needed to talk to Piper. All I wanted to say to Piper was…
Fuck. Xavier.
Xavier, perfect blond Xavier, Ken doll Xavier, the man of the hour, broke into the girls’ circle. They were instantly infatuated with him, giggling and talking and twirling their hair and shifting closer to him. I came to a stumbling stop, watching from the outskirts. Piper put a hand to her mouth, laughing, and a sour taste hit my mouth.
I should’ve shoved myself into the conversation. Say something funny. Take her attention away from him. But I couldn’t move.
It wasn’t like I was justified in how much he annoyed the shit out of me. I had nothing on him. Not once did I catch him kicking puppies or stealing from homeless people. And Piper was right. The calculator app didn’t mean anything beyond a place to store the photos of his girlfriend who he clearly loved.
There wasn’t a concrete reason that I had to not like Xavier. I didn’t know why I felt sick when Piper gazed up at him. I’d never been a true hater like that before.
“Fuck,” I muttered.
Piper caught sight of me and waved while June and Xavier hurried away to the dance floor. Zariah followed close behind with some nerd RA, and Piper passed them, a smile tugging up on her lips when she cut the distance between us. It died completely when she looked behind me.
Honestly, I had to glance back too. I forgot about Nevaeh and Amanda.
I cleared my throat and motioned to the ladies I’d invited along. "Hey, could you grab drinks?"
Amanda raised an eyebrow. "Both of us?"
Her ex-roommate elbowed her in the stomach and tugged her back towards the punch table. I turned to see Piper with her arms crossed over her chest, making it a hell of a lot worse to keep my eyes off her neckline.
"You got comfortable," she said, icy. "You must’ve had fun."
I shrugged. "Well, you didn’t want me there."
How childish did that sound? Well, you didn’t want me there. What was I, six years old? She didn’t want to take me around the block, and I had to shove that in her face?
I needed to play it cool.
"You ruined my presentation," she pointed out.
"Wasn’t trying to."
Piper’s gray eyes narrowed. "Just because you’re not trying to be a jerk doesn’t mean you’re not being a jerk."
I was about to say something to that, something that wasn’t going to be nearly as good as I wanted it to be, when Piper blurted out the worst combination of words in human history.
