Page 30 of Falling For You
“Dude, I got laidtoday.”
“You should be more zen.”
“Fuck off.” Sighing, I tap my beer glass and shrug. “I think I need to break things off with her.”
“Why? If you fucked her today and have been fucking her for a while, why break off a good thing?”
“She asked me why I hadn’t asked her on a date?”
Trey winces good-naturedly. “Ouch. What did you say?”
“I’m not looking for a relationship at the moment and can’t offer her anything more than an after-session hook-up.”
Trey chokes on his mouthful of beer. I pound his back as he turns to me, looking incredulous.
“You’re fucking a member? Holy shit, bro. I thought you had self-imposed rules about that shit.”
“I do.”
“What about this chick made you break them?”
I shrug, feeling defensive. “Thelma’s gorgeous. I lost my head, and I didn’t want to stop.”
“Thelma? What, is she eighty? I didn’t think you were into geriatrics.” Trey snorts.
“She’s twenty-six.”
“And her parents named her Thelma? Didn’t they worry she would be bullied at school?”
“I think you’d have to be a pretty brave middle schooler to pick on Thelma Rampwood.”
Trey chokes again, shoving his beer away from him as he sucks in air, glaring at me.
“You’re fucking ThelmaRampwood? Not fucking smart, bro.”
“Whatever.”
Trey looks skeptical, but he doesn’t call me out again. Drawing his beer back to him, he takes another mouthful, swallowing and turning back to me.
“So, you don’t want to make time to date Thelma Rampwood…why?”
Shit. It’s not that I don’t want to make time to take her on a date. It’s that I have no intention of dating anyone. Dating takes time. It takes effort. Time and effort I need to focus on Dynamo at the moment.
“It’s not the right timing for me. Dynamo is a little all-consuming.”
“So, why can’t you keep hooking up with her? She only asked why you hadn’t asked her on a date. Did she freak out when you said you weren’t interested and break things off?”
“No. She blew me.”
Trey snorts, rolling his eyes. “You have all the luck, man.”
“It doesn’t feel like it. There was something about how she said it. It made me feel like she was chasing commitment."
“So, she straight out of nowhere asked why you hadn’t asked her on a date?”
“Yeah. We fucked, she was boxing, talking about Dynamo and stuff, and then she just asked it.”
“Shit.” Trey drums his fingers on the bar, a frown pulling his eyebrows down. “It sure sounds like she’s after commitment.”