Page 77 of Grasp The Moment
Ryan speaks up, “Now, can you three help me with making Denver my girlfriend? I think she’s loosening up to the idea of it and?—”
Blake cuts him off, “Just ask her. You’ve been toying around with your feelings since the start of the fall semester. Stop being a baby and ask her out.”
Ryan frowns, looking to me for help. I grimace.
“I don’t think I asked G to marry me… We just kind of woke up that way.” I chuckle, scratching the back of my neck as Jace frowns, twisting to face me.
“You haven’t formally asked her to marry you?”
Blake pipes up now, fully invested in the conversation, “You’ve at least taken her on a date, right?”
“I…” I trail off as the guys gasp.
Blake and Jace hop off the couch, communicating with their eyes before leaving Ryan and me alone in our spots. The two of us share confused looks, and before we know it, Jace and Blake are reentering the living room with a humongous dry-erase board and bright smiles on their faces.
“How to get the girl—Medium Hard edition,” Jace announces, writing the words on the board as Blake gives us a grin.
Blake stalks the length of the living room like a professor commanding a lecture. He pauses in front of the television, a gleam in his eyes as he gestures to the board.
“Here’s how to get the girl?—”
Frowning, I shake my head. “I’ve already got her… Shouldn’t I stand up there with you two?”
Jace shakes his head. “Absolutelynot, you need as much help as Captain ‘I can’t tell if the girl I’ve been obsessed with likes me back’ over there. Both of you have strange cases. Denver clearly likes Ryan, but she hasn’t talked about taking the next step with him. You’ve completed every damn step under the guise of being married, but the two of you haven’tdatedyet.”
I guess he’s right… Georgia and I woke up married. We’d only hung out in a romantic sense a few times.
“First things first, get her to like you.” Blake grins deviously, pointing to the board as Ryan sighs.
“We know they like us…” He frowns as Jace shakes his head.
“Both Denver and Georgia can’t stand me; what’s to say they don’t just tolerate you?”
I tilt my head at him, wanting to laugh in his face at the thought. “If they just tolerated us, there’d be no way that Georgia and I share a bed every night and that Denver lets Ryan around her… They want us to be there with them, therefore they like us.” I shrug, but the shaking of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum’s heads has me second-guessing myself until Ryan speaks up.
“I know that it has something to do with her parents. She’s not willing to get into a relationship because of them. Besides, Derek probably has the best case out of all of us, so shouldn’t he be the one to give the advice?”
Jace and Blake share a confused look. “Mama Bear needs this advice more than anyone…” Blake frowns.
I run a hand through my hair. “You two are assholes…”
Jace ignores me, placing notebooks in front of the both of us. “He’s only ever been in one other relationship—when he was seventeen, which is also when he had Deli, so it’s safe to say he needs all the help he can get.”
I knew I shouldn’t have told those dickheads that…
Ryan gives me a bewildered look as he picks up the notebook, turning to a blank page.
“Dude, really?!” I exclaim, looking pointedly between Ryan, the notebook, and the two idiots standing in front of us.
“We need all the help we can get...”
“Why do you look like you're being held against your will? It’s just ice cream, asshole,” Sienna chides, slapping my shoulder as we walk into the ice cream parlor, Scoops Up.
Muttering, I follow behind her, “If only you knew…”
Jace and Blake spent forty-five minutes attempting to instill the art of “Getting the Girl” into our brains before giving Ryan and me a “pop quiz.” The “pop quiz” being them randomly questioning us about what they’d “taught us” while we played a round of COD.
Sienna tucks a piece of her blue hair behind her ear as we take a seat at one of the tables in the parlor. I tilt my head, eyeing her.
