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“You never date any girls Do you even kno?”
Smartass little shit
“What do you irlfriends—I dated Britney Bevins for a few months my freshman year”
“Britney doesn’t count,” Alex informs me with a scoff “Our parents are friends”
I mean, that’s kind of true, plus it wasn’t all that romantic of a relationship Britney is a brainiac like ot her acceptance to an Ivy League college, which cas and moved to California to attend Stanford and chase that doctoral degree she’s been coveting since ere kids
I hardly hear from her anymore
Other than that, sadly, I haven’t had any other relationships, if you don’t count fa about rouess I would say it’s because I don’t do the casual sex thing, but that would be a lie The truth is I don’t actually have the guts to have casual sex even if I wanted to
Alex watches as I lift a soccer ball out of the cardboard box and toss it to the ground
“What are you doing with a soccer ball?”
“I got it while I was in England They’re huge into football over there”
I bought this one during one of the playoffs when every other store in toas selling souvenirs for the different tea to reht home the red and blue football
“You packed a soccer ball in your luggage? Why didn’t you deflate it?”
He has a good point—deflating it would have made more sense if I hadn’t been in such a hurry to pack upwas the last thing onout and, of course, studying, and I waited until the last day to pack up my boxes, address them, and mail them back
Truth be told, I didn’t have a ton of stuff—some clothes, academic tools like textbooks and my computer and other office supplies, and…that’s really about it But I did buy soifts for my family
Alex flips on the TV and begins thuly loud as if he were hard of hearing
“Turn that down You’re going to wake the entire house”
“It’s not even noon No one is sleeping”
“Aunt Myrtleup here?”
“No Besides, she wouldn’t coh the intercom Myrt loves the intercom, but she doesn’t knoork it properly so she repeats herself ten times and blows into it with her old lady breath It’s obnoxious,” Alex grumbles
“Well turn that down anyway, Jesus And get your feet off s