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My attempts to keep Sebastian here have been thwarted I know that nothing I can do or say is going to change his mind

Rachel steps in front of me and props her hands on her hips "I say you stay," she demands

Alex and I pass each other a look, both with a raised brow

Sebastian so"

He raises two fingers and waves at us as he moves down the hall

"Don’t even think about it," Rachel hisses pointing at Alex with a warning look on her face "That hot piece of ass is totally hter and we slip back inside Rachel’s room behind her I shut the door

"What?" Rachel says all cock-eyed

She plops back down on her bed, crossing her bare feet at the ankles below Her toenails are painted red and she wears a gold ring on each pinky toe

We can’t wipe the s," we say melodiously at the sa about ain It al out with her friend, Liz, one night when Brandon was out of town We gossiped and laughed and did all the nors are different now We’re not so ossip consists of stuff about how certain girls in the house are still delusional about being with the Alpha--yeah, ummm, he’s taken, thank-you-very-much

There’s a rhythmic knock on the door and since I’m closest to it, I look to Rachel first since it’s her room

"What?!" she shouts

"Are you nakd?!" Xavier says on the other side

Rachel rolls her eyes

Xavier lets hi his blond head around the door "Not like I haven’t seen it before," he says grinning and steps the rest of the way inside

Alex recoils from his presence with aversion and intolerance I’rin off his face He is gorgeous; I’ll give hi to be talking to my sister I sneer at hiht over next to Alex and sits down on Rachel’s vanity chair, leaning his back against the wall and splaying his legs out into the floor

"Shouldn’t you be in oes back to inspecting her fingernails

Xavier, for a brief second, looks crestfallen, but he quickly wipes away how he’s really feeling and s his hands casually on his lap, "when are you going to go out with me?"

Alex’s head snaps around "Umm Never?"

Xavier sht?"

Alex’s mouth falls open and cavernous creases take shape in her forehead around her eyebrows I’m as revolted as she is

"How about never?" she says

Xavier glances over at Rachel and nods his head toward Alex "Tell her I’m not so bad--not what she thinks I a me into this"

"No, I’m sure you’re exactly what I think you are," Alex interjects "An uncompassionate sex junkie who uses people and is full of hiely enough, he looks totally taken aback by her opinion of him

"A sex junkie,my insecurities," he says, "but baby, I’ve never used anyone in ? Sounds like he’s playing the misunderstood bad-boy card openly But Alex won’t fall for it

I hope not Surely not…

Alex rolls her eyes and starts inspecting her long fingernails, too, but it’s an obvious distraction so she doesn’t have to look at hi smile and the more I look at him the more I see how hs and drops her hands on the bed "Xavier is a jackass, yes," she says and Xavier just keeps s the truth as far as I know; he’s up front, I’ll give him that"

"I don’t care, really," Alex says She reaches over to Rachel’s nightstand and takes up a bottle of electric blue nail polish and twists off the top "You have no chance in hell with rin

"You’re up front, alright," I say to hiirl she’ll be in your bed by the end of the week is not only up front, but extraordinarily pathetic"

Xavier"That’s a lo, girl"

"It’s the truth"

Xavier laughs

"So what do you say?" He turns back to Alex "How about so simple, cliché and old fashioned like dinner and a movie?" He leans forward and props his elbows on his knees, letting his hands hang freely between thehs "Yeah, u tells "