“Fucking dick,” he protested. “You scared the shit out of me.”
I never could control my impulses around him. It was as if I reverted to the annoying little brother role as soon as we were together. I seriously had no idea how he’d put up with me for so damn long. “That was stupid. I’m an idiot. Sorry.”
My sincere apology seemed to ease Jake’s ire. His body relaxed, and his eyes returned to their normal ‘What the fuck is wrong with you?’ look.
To ease the tension I’d created, I opened my arms and plastered on a shit-eating grin. “I’m back!!”
Jake exhaled loudly. “Lucky me.”
“I know. Now accept my apology and get up. Entertain me.”
“I’m trying. Get off me.”
I stood back up. “What are you doing sleeping in the middle of the day, anyway?” I grabbed the pillow and struck him with it for good measure.
“You’re pushing it, Kyle,” he warned. “And I wasn’t sleeping, I was texting Casey.”
“Oh.” I nodded, a knowing smile forming on my face. “You were sexting Casey.”
“No,” Jake corrected, with the tiniest grin. “I was texting her, like I said.”
“Uh-huh, right. If you prefer, I’ll just wait out there so you can finish beating off.”
“Six seconds, Kyle. That’s all it took for you to get on my nerves.”
“I was going for four, but I’ll take six.”
Jake got off the bed and pushed me out of his way.
“What, I don’t get a hug?”
“You don’t deserve a hug.”
“Fine,” I pouted.
“How’d the show go?” Jake asked as he walked into the kitchen. I followed after him, as I always did.
“I discovered a lot about myself, actually.”
Jake scanned me with his eyes, no doubt trying to determine if I was messing with him or not. “Really? Like what did you discover?”
“I don’t like shitting in the woods.”
Jake shook his head, smiling. “No one ever does.”
“And, on a more wussy note, I like the sunrise.”
“Now thatisnoteworthy. That means you woke up before noon at some point during your time away.”
“Yep. That’s what happens when you sleep on a bamboo stalk in the middle of a jungle.”
“Sounds fun. So were there any hotties in the jungle?”
“Oh, yeah, this one, you would have loved her. Long pigtails, overalls, no bra.”
“Sounds…” Jake hesitated, confused by my less-than-flattering description. “Interesting, I guess.”
“Oh, yeah, and she was smart too. She knew a little about everything and spent hours teaching us all these interesting facts about… well, about fucking nothing.”
