Loving You

13

"In Rae's defense she has to be loud. As for you, I have no idea what your excuse is," I state crossing my arms over my chest. Rae points at me nodding her head in agreement.

"Oh once again, you're one to talk. What's your excuse?" Q asks me plucking Julie's phone out of her hands. She lets an annoyed groan.

"Q, I need that," Julie states extending a hand for him to give it back.

"What do you have a secret boyfriend or something?" he asks her. She glared at him and grabs her phone from him. He laughs before sliding off of her bed.

"Shut up, Q," Julie states before looking at me. "Speaking of secret boyfriends, you going back to Asher's house again?"

I sit up straighter at the comment. Last night I met up with Jeremy at his place. Little did I know that Asher also lived with Jeremy. I guess I should have guessed that since they are on the same team.

Imagine my surprise when Asher walked through the door. I thought I was in the clear when he didn't walk in with the rest of the boys from practice. I was very wrong.

Asher was in a pissy mood for some reason. Not that I should care but it was annoying. I don't think I did anything wrong. No correction I didn't do anything wrong.

"Oh yeah, she went over there yesterday," Rae comments absentmindedly. Julie giggles and smiles at me while my face heats up. I head towards Q grabbing his arm.

"Oh look at the time. Q, I think it's time for that run," I  respond dragging Q to the door. Rae rolls her eyes at me dodging the question and Julie laughs. I'm not dodging the question I just don't want to talk about it. Q plants his feet into the floor and gives me a curious look.

"Woah wait who?" Q asks.

"Um."

"Asher Fletcher and Jeremy Gregor," Rae states I throw my head back at the names and groan. Thank you once again, Rae.

"As in the four star freshman on the basketball team? And the star of the basketball team." Q looks impressed and I shake my head rapidly. Why does everyone make such a big deal about all of this? They are just human beings. Regular, hot, godlike, human beings.

"Yes, whatever come on," I say grabbing his arm to tug him out of the room. I'd prefer not to get into any type of detail about the conversation I had with Asher. Which by the way was just weird.

"No, now you have me all invested," Q says planting his feet to the ground again. I let go of his arm and start walking out the door.

"I already told them," I state waving my other hand in the girls direction. Q's footsteps follow me as I grab my key from the hook, "Goodbye! Thanks for nothing roomies!"

Q  and I walk out of my dorm room and into the hall. I close the door and he continues looking at me. I put my hands on my hips, "What."

"Tell me everything and we can make it a brisk walk."

I sigh, "Deal."

He smiles triumphantly as we walk down my dorm hall. We walk out the back doors and head towards the campus trails. I clear my throat as we fall into step. Maybe this will be good because I need guy advice. Q is a guy and one of my best friends.