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“I don’t like her,” he whispered, glaring at the shut door

“You don’t have to, she’s not your roommate”

“I don’t like you hanging out with her”

That was kind of funny Other than sleeping in the sa out’ more in the last four hours than we had in the previous four weeks

But his tone of voice rubbedway

“Well, you don’t get to choose my friends,” I said in a clipped voice

He gaveabout in the stairwell?”

Again, ice water plunged through my insides “What?”

“What were you talking about before you careat person – but it sounded like she was trying to get you to do so you didn’t want to do”

My brain ticked through the possibilities, trying to find some way not to lie

It failed

“She wanted to set me up on a blind date because we broke up,” I said,

His expression got even darker “Oh?” he asked, accusation in his voice

GOD, here we go again

“She’s just trying to look out for me – ”

“Did you want to go out on a date with… whoever it was?”

Yes

Actually, I kind of already did

Twice

“NO You heardI didn’t want to do!”

“Yeah,” he relented, though I could still see the mistrust in his eyes

I desperately wanted to get away from this topic, so I put my arms around his neck “Did you really drive fifteen hours to coht about the same crap?”

He looked into o for just a second I could see hin –

But then he visibly relaxed, and he broke out into a goofy grin “No”

“So let’s not fight, okay?”

“Okay,” he agreed, his s on his face

It disappeared coh I noticed that his awked at her

Specifically at ‘the girls’