I went over it in my mind. “I didn’t realize that was private. You mentioned it to both Connor and me when we were eating. How you got pulled out of class by someone from the admin office so someone would be there when your dad called.”
Her hand dropped and she took a step back. Away from me. My body turned cold as I realized that I had somehow royally fucked up.
“What? Megan, what?”
“I told the story about being pulled out of class, yes. But I never mentioned which class. How did you know it was Intro to Philosophy?”
I was busted.
“Logan,” she said, her voice softer now, questioning. “What the fuck?”
Chapter26
Logan
“Hungry, guys? Food court?”Connor asked as he came up behind us from our meeting room. “I’m going to hit, like, three of the places there.” He started walking ahead of us, and Megan and I fell in line behind him. I was happy for the reprieve, trying to quickly calculate how much to tell her.
I could see the questioning and maybe even hurt (oh, shit!) on Megan’s face and knew I had to come totally clean. Just not in a food court with Connor sitting beside us, eating his way through every vendor.
“I can explain,” I said quietly to Megan as we followed our friend down the stairs toward the first floor and the food court. “Let’s just eat and then go somewhere more private.”
She looked up at me. “So thereissomething to explain? I’m not crazy, right? There’s something I don’t know?”
“Yes,” I said. Her look turned to something in the realm of “I knew it. Too good to be true. I’m such an idiot.” A look I was feeling myself, but for different reasons. I tried to ease her trepidation. “But not anything bad, or whatever you’re thinking right now. It’s kind of, I don’t know, sweet or whatever.”
She came to a complete halt, and I had to stop myself and turn back to her. “Sweet? Oh, I can’t wait to hear this,” she said. There was enough humor in her voice that I was hopeful she wouldn’t be too pissed when we were able to talk.
I put my hand on her shoulder and ran it down her arm to her hand, which she let me take in mine. “Bottom line, I’m crazy about you and think we’ve got something really special here.”
Her mouth (that mouth!) opened a tiny bit in a silent O, and I had to taste her. Ihadto. I leaned in and gave her a soft kiss, encouraged that she not only let me, but kissed back.
“I knew you two were fucking,” Connor said from behind me. He must have turned back when we hadn’t kept up. Megan and I broke apart, and the softness in her eyes told me that she felt the same way and that we were going to be okay. “Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy for you guys. Just wanna say I was on record weeks ago.”
“We weren’t sleeping together weeks ago,” Megan said as she walked past me, and then Connor, and into the vast food court area.
“Yeah, but you were thinking about it,” Connor teased, catching up to her and throwing an arm around her shoulders. I walked a little faster to catch them. “Good for you,” he said to Megan before dropping a kiss on the top of her head and releasing her.
He turned to fist-bump me, and I just shook my head and said, “Dude,” which made him laugh and drop his hand.
“Right. First stop Pizza Hut, I think. See ya at the table.”
We all got our food and ate while Connor made good on his threat to hit several different places. His wrappers piled up, but he was never gone long enough to launch into anything deep.
“Hey, guys, mind if I join you?”
I looked up to see Megan’s roommate Chloe standing at the side of our table with a Taco Bell bag in her hand.
“Um, well, it’s not just—” Megan started, but was cut off by Connor returning from Burger King.
“Hey there, I’m Connor,” he said to Chloe as he tossed his bag of food in front of where he’d been sitting.
“Connor, Chloe. Chloe’s my suitemate,” Megan said.
“Hi, Connor. If I’m interrupting something, I can—”
“Nope. Let me get my stuff from that chair and you can sit there.” He pulled his backpack from the open seat and Chloe took it, putting her bag of food next to me and across from Connor. I watched Megan as she watched Chloe.
“So, freshman, then,” Connor said, to which Chloe nodded. “What do you think of our Bribury so far?”
