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"When do you think you’ll be done?"

I laugh and shake my head "Look…"

"Piper," she provides coolly

Piper That’s it "Piper, I had fun, but I’ether and she stares at ain, this time with bitterness "Yeah, I’ve heard that before" I kiss her cheek and push myself up "Thanks for the wake and take See ya later"

"Fuck you, Park"

I grin as I snatch up my keys "You already did Twice"

I duck out the door just as soainst the wall

I avoided the Saturdaybreakfast this past weekend I also learned to avoid Monday afternoons after walking into the bathroom to find Lucy in her cut-off jean shorts and a tank top, bent over the bathtub scrubbing soap scum away Apparently Jessie pays her to clean once a week Now I make a mental note to add the laundry room on Wednesdays toand I can’t afford to be tested

I al towels in front of a dryer She’s in another one of those long skirts, only she has one side pulled up and tucked into the waist I have a great view of her crazy sexy legs and it physically hurts to look at her She smiles as she pulls the headphones from her ears "Hi Park Haven’t seen you around lately"

I placeon a washer and scratchsu ets quiet and I glance back at her Her ar her chest When ray eyes atto be weird around me now or are you always like this?"

Her fiery attitude catches s her slim shoulders "I don’t know…cold?"

I chuckle "That’s me in a nut shell"

"What are you out of the shell?"

"This is it," I say hoarsely I don’t want her to know more Hell, I honestly don’t know if there even iseyes and full lips, conte machines I don’t knohat she sees when she looks at aze, like she’s full of passion Like she wants to see what I’m full of Like she already can And I want to be a part of it I want to feel it

She licks those damn lips and I have to discretely adjust my jeans If she wasn’t the forbidden fruit, I wouldn’t hide I’d show her exactly how sexy I find her I’d let ood for a little while

But she is forbidden

"Okay," she relents "So, I was thinking about ht--"

"--tomorrow" She tucks her hair behind her ear "Do you DJ with Jessie?"

"No" I turn back to ent

"What do you do? You said gig"

"I sing"

She arches her brows "In a band?"

"No I’er," I deadpan "Yes in a band A Fool’s Paradise"

Realization colors her features and she squints at " She bites her lip and shakes her head like she knows better than to tell me what she was about to say Now I really want to know

"What were you going to say, Lucy?"

"Nothing I just remembered you"

I cock a brow and move in front of her "You re…never et pretty intense

She picks up her basket and backs away froain If she keeps that up, I’ it for her "You’ll coaze "Probably shouldn’t"

"That stuff with Jessie--it wasn’t about you I just hate hi brother I’d like us to be friends You should come"

"Friends?" I nearly spit the word Fuck friends I don’t need another friend

"Yeah" She grins and adjusts the basket in front of her

I sraze over her body "I don’t kno to be friends with so to listen to Jessie’s advice, I can at least be honest with her And it is the truth I have no clue how to be friends with a girl anylazes her eyes "You’re attracted tothe s her feet nervously "Can’t help it You’re hot"

She rolls her eyes "Well, learn to help it, Park, because I’ht stands But I’m nice, and I’ood friend"

I s tightly as she shifts the basket on her hip and starts for the stairs "Be there at six," she calls