Free Anywhere With You by Kaylee Ryan Page A

dumb with me, Allison Hagan. What is that chemistry with you and my brother? Holy shit sparks were flying all damn day!”
    “You’re crazy, there were no sparks. Liam was just being … nice that’s all,” I say, my voice cracking. Yeah that was real convincing.
    “I call bullshit! What you’re forgetting is that he is my brother and I know him all too well. Never in my life have I seen him be attentive to any girl unless he was trying to hook up. He ran from the table to chase after you to see if you were okay, and he was in that bathroom with you for a while,” she winks at me.
    I throw myself down on my bed and cover my head with my pillow. I contemplate how much I should tell her. Liam is her brother after all, but she’s my roommate and I need someone to talk to about all of this. Ace would never understand. I take a deep breath remove the pillow and say, “We kissed,” and quickly cover my face back up.
    “SQUEEE!!!”
    Before I know what’s happening, Hailey is on my bed pulling the pillow away. “You kissed him?” she questions.
    Unable to speak and feeling the heat engulf my cheeks, I nod my head yes and look up at the ceiling.
    “This is awesome. Wouldn’t it be great if you guys ended up getting married, we would be sisters for real.”
    “Seriously, you’re not mad or think this is weird?”
    “Well, when things start to heat up with you two spare me the graphic details, but no, I’m cool with it. Liam is a great guy he just has his priorities all out of whack. I would love to see him get serious and what better person than my new roomie BFF?”
    “I’m sorry to disappoint but it doesn’t mean anything. Liam has made it clear he would never consider a relationship and I don’t want to waste my time on a fling, so it’s never gonna happen with us.”
    Hailey laughs, “Oh it’s so gonna happen just like I told you earlier. I am going to enjoy watching this play out. The show so far has been AH-MAZING.” She sings as she hops back to her bed.
    The first week of classes go smooth. Hailey and I had already mapped out where we needed to go so we could ensure that we would be on time. That is yet another thing that she and I have in common, neither one of us like to be late. Thursday night we are hanging out in our room to celebrate our first week. Neither one of us has classes on Fridays so we will always have a three day weekend. Hell yeah! I haven’t seen Liam at all this week. Of course, I have gone out of my way to avoid him and Aiden. I gave Aiden the excuse that I was busy with diving into my classes. He bought it, thank god!
    My cell phone starts singing LMAFO “I’m sexy and I know it”, Aiden’s calling. He programmed his own ringtone. He is quite proud of his selection and often calls when we are together just to tell me.
    “Hey Ace,” I chirp.
    “Hey you! What are you and Hales into tonight?” he asks.
    “Well, we were actually just discussing that. How about you?” I want to say how about you and Liam but I don’t want to be obvious. It has been a week since I have seen him.
    “Nothing really, Liam and I are just sitting around, thinking about going out for pizza, wanted to see if you and Hales wanted to come with?”
    I pull the phone away from my ear, “Hey Hales? Aiden said that he and Liam are going out for pizza and they want to know if we want to come with.”
    “Hell yeah, how much time do we have?” she responds as she jumps off her bed and starts rummaging through her closet.
    I laugh, “Yeah, we’re in. Where do you want to meet?” I listen to Aiden tell me that he and Liam will pick us up in twenty minutes. I quickly say goodbye so that I can get ready.
    “They will be here in twenty minutes to pick us up,” I tell Hailey as I laugh at her throwing clothes around our room.
    “Get your ass in gear missy. We only have twenty minutes, make that nineteen. What are you going to wear?”
    I shrug my shoulders. I’m a what-you-see-is-what-you-get kind of