Asher's chair crashes back to the ground, his grunt accompanying it and Charlie pauses, looking back at him.
Ashers eyes are dark, and he looks over my shoulder as Charlie finishes describing this dream worthy guy, eyes narrowing before he gets up, gives me one more look and says a mumbled goodbye. I refrain from watching him leave, focusing on Charlie, my cheeks feeling way too hot.
"I thought he'd never leave." Charlie laughs and I grin back, but I don't feel good at all.
Charlie stops, tilting her head at me.
"You do not have a crush on my brother? do you?" Charlie asks curiously and I shake my head vehemently, wanting to cover my cheeks but I refrain.
"No." I blink, "Like he said, he's practically like a brother."
Charlie's nose turns up a bit, and she makes a face like the thought fills her with disgust, but she shakes her head. "He didn't-" Charlie cuts herself off on a sigh. "Why are you blushing then?"
"Because you said someone asked for my number?" I prompt, hoping to direct her away from the mortifying truth.
I do have a crush on her brother, and he only thinks of me as an accessory to Charlie. I must get that through my head.This is casual. Nothing else.
"Let me see if he's still here, I told him I'd speak to you before anything."
Her eyes sweep over the library but with each pass her shoulders drop, "He must've left, sorry Ivy."
Chapter 18
Tip eighteen; men have a g-spot too, it's his prostate. Can be found by pushing on the skin between the balls and anus. Have fun. But also ask consent before you do this.
Ivy
"You're coming to the party."
I look at Charlie in astonishment. "You really want to be seen with me after what happened the other day?" I wave a hand to encompass the air and everything that went on.
"You're my best friend. I'm not going to pick and choose when you can be seen with me." She rolls her eyes.
"Char-"
"You're going to let them win? No." She shakes her head. "You're going to go to this party and look fucking hot and show them that you don't care. And maybe you'll even see your secret man candy out and you can finally prove to yourself that the only one that was bad that time was Dain and his fucking ego."
I'm still not convinced.
"They're going to talk regardless so you might as well give them something worthwhile to yap about."
"Charlie." I try again, "I don't-"
"You're going, and we're going to have fun and maybe you'll even find yourself under some hunk of a guy that will make you forget about that whole day."
"Doubt that."
I don't think anything could make me forget about the clusterfuck of my life right now.
"They're going to talk regardless so show up and show them that it doesn't affect you," Charlie chides, "or are you going to hide forever?"
I hate when she does that, asking a question so it has the opposite effect, pushing me into action.
I hate even more that it works. Every time.
Charlie smiles when she sees my resolve dissipating.
"Now that that is settled, let's get you dressed." She takes my hand and drags me up to her room, my eyes moving towards the door opposite hers, the door to Asher's room.
