If Jett was the captain, and he told this guy to wait for me, why was I getting called Red? Was this a setup? Oh, my good Lord, they turned me into someone as paranoid as them.
“Ash texted me just before you came out to make sure I was here,” he expanded.
And now theRedcomment made sense.
“Okay, what’s your name?” I asked as I pulled my own phone out.
“Alden.” He gave me a grin, and I saw he was cute.
“Well, I’m Mia. Hi.”
His rueful chuckle made my own smile wider. “Yeah, I know.”
Me:I’ve been picked up curbside, where am I to be delivered?
“Why aren’t you at practice like the rest of the team?” I asked as I sent the message.
“It’s only the first team that practices tonight,” he told me as his cheeks burned.
“Oh, I don’t really follow the sport,” I explained. “What time does practice stop?”
Alden looked at his watch and then at me. “Soon.”
Well, wasn’t he a well of information? My phone buzzed.
Brute:Are you still in a mood with the twins?
Me:I’m not in “a mood” they were mean
Brute:Uh-huh. Back to our place then
Our place?
Thank goodness he wasn’t here to see the smile. Alden and I walked in silence, and it was all very strange.
“You don’t say a lot,” I said, desperate to break the silence.
“Oh no, they said I wasn’t allowed to flirt with you.”
I stopped walking. “Who said?”
Alden’s eyes widened slightly. “Um, you know, the . . . um, them.”
Them? Nodding, I assessed him. He wasn’t as tall as Brute, or as wide, or as gorgeous, but he wasn’t Quasimodo, and he seemed nice enough. Nice dark hair, light brown eyes, clean-shaven. Little bit nervous, but then the circumstances were hardly ideal.
“Do you want to flirt with me?” Possibly blunter than I was usually, but then again, the Devils made my temper rise.
Alden looked like he was going to pass out. “Um, I mean, you’re pretty.”
“Pretty?” Too sharp, Mia — pretty is good.
“Gorgeous!”
“Don’t overcompensate, Alden.” I started walking as my irritation grew. “Which one in particular told you not to flirt?”
“It was Gray.”
My feet stopped again. “Gray?” I saw him hesitate. “Alden, spill it now, or I’ll tell them you were disrespectful.” Now I was just bullying him, which made me no better than them.
