Page 35 of Walk the Line

I’m on my feet instantly. I was going to forced myself out anyway, so I don’t need to give credit to him for speeding up the process. It’s not like there’s anything about his message that got me up and out.

There are people all over the hallway, leading into the kitchen where I find myself going. It’s not long before I see her and…one of the guys on our team who I heard calling her cute the day she walked in.

He seems to be leading the conversation, but she’s not ignoring him like I expected she would. A few nods and eye rolls from her seems to be all he needs for that smile to be on his fucking face.

Is she really enjoying this guy?

My eyes are fixated on her so hard that I don’t even catch the moment they connect with hers. I know it’s too late to pretend I wasn’t watching her, and clearly she knows it too with the way she cuts me a glare before turning her body away so she’s facing…Melvin or Kelvin or whatever his name is fully.

Fix the fuck up Julius, and learn the names of everyone on your fucking team.

I at least manage to check with Traneil on how his dad’s doing when I see him.

“Fuck, I don’t think I can do it,” I hear when I end up standing alone in the corner.

“But it’s so easy.”

“It isn’t. I really don’t think I can, J.”

“All you have to do is say a two letter word.”

“It’s so hard, though.”

“But it’s two letters.”

I welcome the distraction of the conversation happening behind me as much as I don’t want to, because it has me fully turning my body away from the sight of anything I saw in the last five minutes, and now I’m hoping I can forget about it for the rest of the night.

I don’t know why I was looking there anyway.

It had been a while since I had sex, so I got a bit carried away after my session with Kaylah.

But I’m back to normal now, so no more flashbacks.

I don’t expect my eyes to have to trail down, where I find two women hunched on the ground.

“Can I help you?” I say.

“Oh, fuck!”

They were clearly looking somewhere beyond me, but now I’ve got their attention both of their eyes are on me as they rise up from the ground, one of them pulling her friend up with her along the way.

“Um don’t mind us. Just didn’t see you there,” the girl with the braids says.

“Why were you on my floor?”

“Your floor?” I have no idea why this girl is wearing a large hat. “Wait, you’re that Julius guy, aren’t you?”

“Oh, from the team? Never mind, that was dumb.”

“I’m Mimi and this is Jalissa,” hat girl says. “I’ve heard so much about you.”

“Thanks,” I say.

She shakes her head. “Oh, they’re not good things.” “My Dad has not been impressed with you so far this year. I mean, to be fair he wasn’t really impressed with you last year because he said trying to have a conversation with you was like trying to draw blood out of a stone, but he definitely had great things to say about your Hockey skills, so at least you have that going for you, huh?

“Your Dad? Your…Coach,” I say.

“Not my coach, just my dad.”