“I’m down for most things,” Asher grinned at me, “but I draw the line at that.”
“Where are the guys?” he asked Flick.
“Jason said something about hitting the gym.”
“He’s taking the exhibition game seriously, huh?”
“I guess.”
“You can go,” I said. “I can walk to class with Felicity.”
His eyes slid to where the girls were still huddled, and still staring.
“Go,” Flick urged him. “We’ve got this.”
“See you at lunch?”
I nodded, leaning in to kiss him. Felicity squealed under her breath, but it barely registered when his lips touched mine.
“Try to ignore them,” he whispered.
“Them who?” I grimaced.
“That’s my girl.”
“Go, before I beg you to stay.”
Asher took off toward the gym, leaving me and Felicity to head into school together. She looped her arm through mine. “You two are so f’in cute, I can barely stand it.”
“They’re still staring, right?” I said through gritted teeth.
She glanced back and let out an irritated sigh. “Yep.”
“Guess I’d better get used to it now the cat’s out of the bag.”
“They’ll get over it. Come lunch there’ll be some new drama or scandal for them to salivate over.”
“I hope you’re right because we’ve only been here ten minutes and I already want to punch something.”
We’d barely made it into the building when a saccharine sweet voice said, “Hey, Mya.”
“Hmm, hey, Kellie, right?” My mean girl radar went on high alert.
“Yeah, we met briefly at the Bennets’ party.”
“Yeah, I remember,” I said, coolly.
“Well, anyway, I just wanted to say hey. We should totally hang out some time. You too, Fee.”
“Felicity,” she corrected. “My name is Felicity.”
“Oh, my bad.” Kellie laughed, the sound like nails grating on a chalkboard. “I just heard Asher call you Fee this one time and figured—”
“It’s a nickname my friends use.”
Ouch, burn. I stifled a snicker.
Kellie’s eyes widened with surprise, but she recovered quickly, pasting on a false smile. “I should go but don’t forget what I said about hanging out.”