"The game was crazy, but the party was even crazier," Dale said. "You should have seen all of the girls. They were all over me."
"Bullshit, Rivers," Dallas, Adam's roommate, said. "Even if you won the game, the girls wouldn't be all over you. Not with pretty boy here."
Noah grinned at his nickname as he bumped his fist with Dallas before he sat down.
"Oh, did you see how Julie was all over you? And did you hear her in the stands? She was going crazy for you."
Noah hadn't been paying attention too much to who was in the stands because he was way too focused on the game to pay any mind to that. But he did remember her at the party. She talked to him a few times, but to be honest, Noah was having so much fun that he wasn't paying too much attention to her.
"What? You off on Julie now?" Dale asked. "I thought you liked her."
"Now liking her is a bit of stretch," Noah said, and the guys laughed. "Don't get me wrong. She's a cool girl. But if I'm being honest, I'm not as interested as I was before."
"You hit, and now you aren't interested anymore. That's messed up, Walker." Dallas said, laughing.
"Who said I hit?" Noah asked. He didn't really talk about his sex life with anyone and hadn't told anyone what he did with Julie. He found stuff like that to be corny, and besides, he didn't want to damage someone's name by doing something like that. The next thing you know, they would be slandering Julie's name because of him, and he wasn't down with the idea of that.
Dallas grinned. "I'm fucking her roommate, and Julie told her."
Dammit, Julie. She should have kept that to herself.
"She's a cool girl, and it has nothing to do with the sex. It's just that I'm not necessarily feeling her. She's a nice girl, though."
"Yeah, she's nice, alright," Dallas said, and everyone laughed. Noah rolled his eyes as he walked over to the fridge feeling his stomach rumbling. When he opened it, he groaned.
"You don't have no food in here?" Noah asked, annoyed. He was fucking starving, and his stomach was paying for it.
Adam shrugged. "They ate it all."
Noah sighed and slipped his shoes on as he headed to the door.
"Where are you going?" Dale asked.
"I'm about to head to the grocery store down the street and put something to eat in this place. I'm starving."
They called out orders to him, but he ignored them all as he headed out the house and walked a few blocks down to the closest grocery store. When he stepped inside, he wondered what he would get to fill his stomach really quick. He didn't want to get anything that would require him to cook. Besides, he was positive that none of them knew how to cook either. It would be a disaster.
Noah walked over to the frozen food section, and when he passed the frozen vegetables, he stopped in his tracks and did a double-take.
"Melanie?" he said hesitantly, and when the woman he spoke to turned around, he was surprised that it was, in fact, her standing there. She looked at him with equally wide eyes before a frown formed on her face. Noah took in her appearance, and he had to admit that he was shocked. He had never seen her like this before. Usually, she was dressed up in her fancy blazers and dress suits. But right now, she was in a pair of tight leggings that showed every curve she had, along with her round ass. She wore a plain t-shirt with a deep V-neck that showed the curve of her breasts, and her hair was pulled back into a ponytail. It felt like he was seeing her for the first time.
"What are you doing here?" he asked, mouth still hung open as he stared at her.
"I should be asking you that," she said as she closed the fridge door and dropped a bag of frozen peas into her cart. "I live around here, remember?"
And suddenly, like a ton of bricks, he remembered the other night taking her home and how he recognized her area because she did live near Adam. He had forgotten all about it.
"Remember I told you I had a friend who lived close to you?" She nodded. "I was just at his place, but he didn't have any food in his house, so I came to pick up some things."
"Oh," she said as she shifted to the side so she could move out of the way for another person passing by with their cart.
"You also don't have any food in your house?" Noah asked grinning.
"Guilty as charged," she said sarcastically with a roll of her eyes. When she began moving her cart, Noah found himself falling in step with her.
"Guess what," he said as she stopped by the frozen fruits, and when she tried to grab a bag of frozen pineapples from the top shelf, Noah grabbed it for her instead.
"You won the game," Melanie said, smiling.
