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She never goes out with any guys was a nice touch, as was the detail about Syracuse I felt Kevin relax beside me

Then he turned into a dick

“Yeah You and Shanna date?” he asked, a peculiarly gleeful tone in his voice, and I kneas about to try to stab my roommate in the back

Derek looked aht I came home with her”

“Oh” Kevin’s plan deflated in front of his eyes… and then he looked at Derek’s body with rising panic, and I knew exactly what he was thinking:

THIS guy was naked just a few feet away from my GIRLFRIEND?!

“But you didn’t stay,” I added hastily

Derek s to say to hell with it and push the plunger on the dynamite

But he played it cool

“Nope” He turned to Kevin and said in a man-to-man voice, “Chick passed out on ht?”

“Yeah,” Kevin agreed with a laugh

As if he’d ever been in that situation before

“Well, anyway, tell her I ca you, man”

Kevin did his best to give Derek a cool nod “Yeah, you, too”

And then Derek walked into the stairithout even a single look behind

So I wondered ain…

…and then wondered if I was a horrible person for feeling like that as I stood next to my boyfriend

Kevin snorted in derision

I looked over at him “What?”

“That’s the kind of guy Shanna likes?”

I looked at hiuilt “Yeah?”

Kevin shook his head in an oh-so-superior way “Figures Your roommate has terrible taste in men”

I narrowed rily as he walked back to the bed

If you only knew

Then I spent the rest of the night feeling awful that I’d thought it

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Shanna was getting ready for another night out e ca in front of her closet door full-lengthon eye makeup