With the greatest secrecy, the team carried out their plans, and successfully brought Asher to his room without anyone else catching on. After they lowered his body onto his bed, they started to file out of the room. As they walked past me, they glanced at me with differing looks. Some concerned, s
“Cynthia, I…” I leaned in closer, hands pressed into the edge of his mattress. I’d do anything to hear what he was going to say, short of crawling into the bed of him. Because it sure seemed like he was about to reveal how he truly felt about me. Eyes closed, he opened his lips, as if to speak.
His eyes fully and easily focused onto me, thank God! Though he seemed a bit guarded, frowning at me slightly. My heart sunk. I knew this was going to happen, but it still hurt. Was he regretting everything he said last night? “I’m sorry,” he said. “For last night.” Oh. Ouch. To hear him say so a
We all know you are sleeping with Coach. I froze, the words not fully sinking in. Surely I had misheard. “Don’t look so shocked,” Elena said. “You haven’t exactly been subtle about it.” “You are out of your mind,” I managed, when I had recovered enough to speak. “Oh, please. We remember that fir
Hurrying to his dorm room to check on him, I found it empty. One of the other athletes from the room across the hall noticed my sour face while I stood in Asher’s doorway. “Asher went to hockey practice,” the guy told me. My concern spiked higher. He shouldn’t even be out of bed today, certainly
Asher For far too long, Elena had been allowed to make Cynthia’s life miserable. With rumor after terrible rumor, this girl had spread poison into the world, causing Cynthia pain and suffering. I still felt shame for almost believing her once, when my jealousy had blinded me into think Cynthia had
Still, for Cynthia, I would brave the flashing lights and drunken patrons once more. I changed into my standard club clothes, a button-up black shirt, a size too small to show off my muscles, and a pair of tight designer jeans. I styled my hair back away from my face. Arriving at the club, I tense
I followed Asher to the nightclub only to make sure he was okay. After all, he’d nearly passed out at the ice rink earlier! He hardly seemed like he was in any condition to be pursuing such cardio-heavy activities as dancing and… sex. Not that I would stop him. We were just friends. I had no claim