Stay with me

“I did something stupid.” I shook my head as if it could erase what had happened, and glanced back up at Zeke, who stared back with a blank face. “I had sex with Liam.”

Zeke’s young features didn’t change, so I continued, “Before, I only put myself in those situations thinking it would switch me back to normal, and even afterward when it didn’t work, it still didn’t bother me. But now I’m bothered. Shit. I don’t know what I’m trying to say. You understand what I’m trying to say?” Though there were more muscles in the human face than in the rest of the body, Zeke hadn’t moved a single one of them.

I twisted my neck to look behind me, and saw Liam observing me from across the room. He pulled his stupid lip between his teeth, and my stomach twisted into knots as I forced down bile threatening to come up. “Dear Lord, what was I thinking? Here”—I pushed my di

Zeke stared at me from across the table, unmoving.

“Why are men so predictable? For once, can someone surprise me? Like you, for instance.” I leaned back in the chair. “Yes, you don’t talk, and I know no matter what I say, you’ll sit there and stare at me with those big brown eyes of yours. That much is predictable.” I let out a small laugh. “But I still have no idea what’s going through your head right now, and I like that about you.”

After folding my arms over the table, I laid my head down and found Ollie through the chaos. Ollie tilted his head until his eyes met mine. “Is it strange I pretended he was Ollie the whole time to get through it? I wonder what it would be like with Ollie, but we can never. He will be the one to destroy me, Zeke. I can feel it with him. I still can’t believe he kissed me in my room, then had the audacity to walk right out afterward. That I wasn’t expecting. Do you think he’s waiting for me to talk to him about it?”

I lifted my head to see Zeke eating my cookie, and I flashed him a lopsided grin. “Whoa, take it easy there, slugger. With all this movement, you might break something.”