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"Is that what you want?" He never talks about football much with me It’s like he compartmentalizes all these different parts of his life and only reveals what he thinks I should see

"Yeah" He hangs his head "I don’t knohat else I would do I’m a business major with a minor in finance I did that to please ive hi to be okay Really"

Drew settles his hand over ives it a squeeze We look at each other as he laces our fingers together and then he’s leaning in, kissingainst my lips that make my heart ache for him

"I love you so da to deal with a lot of shit, but if we can "

He’s right He has to be right If I could, I’d beg hiht now So we could lose ourselves in each other, if only for a little bit

But now’s not the tis to consider first And Owen…

"Where’s Owen?" I ask after I break our kiss

As if he’s lurking behind his bedroo area, stopping short when he sees the two of us sitting so closely together We haven’t been very affectionate or grabby in front of my brother It makes me uncomfortable, which is so stupid, but I knoen doesn’t approve one hundred percent ofwith Drew

Crazy I shouldn’t care I love thisin front of us

"That chick was creepy" Owen shakes his head, looking at Drew "She said she was your mom?"

Drew stiffens beside me "She’s not She’s married to my dad My leto Owen "You met her? You talked to her?"

"She was in the apartot home," Drew adds

"With Owen? Alone?" I’m stunned What The Hell "Who let her in?"

"I did," Owen adot here She said she was Drew’s mom and that she needed to see hi were you with her alone?"

"I don’t know Tendeal? She’s weird, I’ll give her that But it’s not like she did anything to "

I look at Drew No way a to Owen about…that "She’s a little mentally unstable at the moment Everyone’s worried about her" Ick I can’t believe I just said that I’m not worried about her I wish she’d fall off the face of the earth and rot in hell forever

"I thought I heard you two fighting," Owen said, shifting on his feet He looks uncomfortable

"We don’t really like each other" I circle my arm around Owen’s shoulders and lead hie the subject and quick "I have good news I found an apartment for us"

"Really?"

He’s so excited as I tell hi roohts I’m torn Excited to find my own place for Owen and me Sad to leave Drew I need this independence But I need Dreell

He needs h for hih for each other

Chapter Nineteen

The truth is rarely pure and never simple – Oscar Wilde

Adele

I’s I’ve done I can’t help who I fall in love with Why is it such a crilected me for years His son reer More vibrant Sweet and eager to please

At first it was all for fun When your husband loses interest in her sexually, a wonored Alone I started flirting with Drew and he responded Oh, maybe he was a little uncomfortable at first but the ether, the more he liked it

The more he likedI don’t understand his total disgust for e it I wish I could make him see I only want the very best for him He has so ht star for a brief moment, I held in my hands

Only he slipped away and has no plans on ever co back The disappointment that floods , I can’t dwell on it for long

So I don’t

I’ve had affairs Brief,olf pro is nificent in bed and eagerly attentive, he’s also young and foolish and enjoys bragging to his friends that he’s banging an older woar

So crude, these boys are Not my Drew Scratch that--my Andrew I’m the only one who calls him that The only one who’s allowed

I drive around the backwater little town he lives in while he goes to college, getting lost on all the one-way streets while I try to find a nice hotel The campus is nice, the don area eclectic, with lots of cute shops and restaurants Other than that, the town is an absolute shit hole If he reo nowhere