FIVE DAYS LATER
“Did you hear that?”
Frowning, Callan looks up from his books. “Hear what? We’re in a library, Denny. There isn’t that much to hear.”
“An…” There it is again. I whip around, trying to see who’s making the dumb noise, but this section’s kinda empty. “Oinking sound.”
“Huh?”
I shake my head. “Chill out and just listen, would you?”
“I’m perfectly chilled.”
“Yeah. Okay.” I scoff. “If this isn’t you freaking out about finals?—”
“I’m not!”
“Of the two of us, you’re the one who’s least likely to get anything less than 98% so calm down.” I point to his glasses. “Why aren’t you wearing them?”
Iknow why he keeps putting them down.
“Is it because I told you they were slutty?”
His shoulders hunch. “How can glasses be slutty?”
“I told you they are and that the effect is definitely lessened when they’re not on your damn face!”
His nose wrinkles. “You’re bossy. Why am I surrounded by bossy women?”
“You’re just figuring this out? Put them on. Lex’s over there.” I tip my chin at the back of the library. “How’s she supposed to see you in them if they’re on the table?”
‘Operation Lex Callan’ is in its early stages and the glasses arepulling a lot of the weight, IMO.
“I feel objectified.”
“You wish she were objectifying you,” I jeer.
“Is this how women feel in bikinis?”
“I think it’s worse, Callan.” I watch, pointedly, until he puts the damn things back on. “Anyway, did you hear the oink?”
“What oink?”
“An oink. You know, like a pig?!”
“Oink?” he repeats with a blank-eyed stare.
When nothing’s forthcoming, neither common sense from him nor anotheroink, I let him retreat to his books.
Then it sounds again.
This time, Callan hears it.
He jerks upright like he was stunned with a Taser and twists around. “What the hell was that?”
The table opposite me has two women whispering over their cells. When one of them catches my eye, her smirk makes my heart sink.
That bitter, bitchy, twisty, nasty smirk—I’ve seen it too many times in my life from jealous girls fighting over my BFFs who were pissed at me for being friends with them while having the audacity to be fat.
