“Just to be clear,” I say seriously, “I amalwaystrying to get you naked.”
“Tell me about the game,” she urges, shaking her head at me.
“Can’t believe you didn’t watch,” I tut.
She rolls her eyes. “You know I have no idea what’s going on. Besides, I promised Christine I would come visit.”
“And how did that go?”
“It was…good,” she says carefully. “We had a good talk.”
“Mm, about me?”
“Why do you think everything is about you?”
“I just like to pretend that you’re always thinking about me.”
“If your head got any bigger, it would need its own platform just to stay up.”
“I love it when you talk dirty to me.”
“Stop stalling and tell me how the game went.”
I frown. “Coach took me out after the first period.”
“Shit,” she says. “I’m sorry. How do you feel about it?”
“I don’t know.” I shrug. “I mean, we won, so I’m happy about that, but it was close.Tooclose. It didn’t feel great having to sit on the sidelines and do nothing but watch.”
“Did you hurt yourself?”
I roll my wrist, noting the stiffness there, but ultimately shake my head. “It feels okay. I just took a bad hit at the end of the period, and Coach didn’t want to take any chances.”
“I mean, that’s probably for the best,” she hedges.
“I guess so.”
She must note the bitterness in my tone, because she gives me a sympathetic look. “I’m sorry that he took you out.”
“It’s whatever,” I answer, not wanting to talk about it anymore. “I notice you didn’t confirm or deny whether or not you and Christine talked about me.”
She chuckles softly. “You might have come up.”
“Did you tell her I’m the most spectacular lover you’ve ever had?”
“I absolutely did not tell her that, no.”
“Bummer.”
“I really hope you’re alone in your room right now,” she says with narrowed eyes.
I turn my phone so she can see the empty room around me, bringing it back to my face as I flash her a grin. “It’s just you and me, baby.”
“I’m not sure how I feel about ‘baby’ either.”
“Keep it up and all that will be left for me to call you is ‘sugar tits.’ ”
“If you want to continue touching them, I would advise against it.”
