Free The Last Girl by Riley Shasteen Page B

room.
    “Thanks for cleaning up for me,” I laugh.
    “You are welcome.”
    He turns on the television and the Wii and I look around a little more. All his underwear drawers were open. Not meaning to, I see a flash of gold in one drawer and I grabbed it in shock.
    “Why do you have gold thong?” I ask laughing.
    His eyes widen and he nearly tackles me to get it back. He shoves it back into the drawer and closes all the others as well. “The boys just got me that as a joke for Christmas.”
    I keep laughing and sit at the foot of the bed, “Okay, Hayden.”
    “It’s true,” he sits next to me.
    We play the game and Hayden promises not to talk when it is my turn. We play for about two hours and we tie.
    “How did we tie?” I almost yell.
    “We balance each other out. You and your amazing videogame skills and me and my super awesome, sexy mini-golf skills.”
    “I wouldn’t call mini-golf very sexy,” I snort.
    “It is when I do it,” he sings. I laugh as he jumps on the bed on his stomach next to me. I lay down on my side facing him.
    “You know what that means?” he whispers and I shake my head. “It means we are soul mates.”
    I laugh again, “I don’t think that qualifies as soul mates.”
    “I do.”
    “Yeah well you are insane.”
    “There you go, insulting me again,” he pouts.
    “Aw, I’m sorry.”
    “You’re not sorry,” he says a s he sits up. So I can see him, I move onto my back.
    “You’re right, I’m not.”
    “You have to make it up to me,” he says and I see a glint in his eye.
    “How?” I ask interested.
    “This.”
    He leans down and kisses me sof tly. And for once, I don’t pull away.

Chapter 14: A Small Argument
     
    Luke comes to pick me up at around five, and I really wish he hadn’t. I was having a blast with Hayden. It was the first time I had ever made out with someone before (well, the first time I was okay with it). I felt my heart kick Luke out as Hayden moved in. I was happy, because I wasn’t dreaming about snuggling up with him, I was actually snuggling up with him. And not in the way Luke and I did, in a much more romantic way. And it surprised me when Hayden didn’t try to get me to go any farther with him like I had thought he would. He was really sweet and I realize now I had completely misjudged him. He was all talk, but no action. Everything he said about us sleeping together was just his sense of humor. I didn’t get that until now.
    As I was leaving his house he whispered in my ear, “Now I know I am going to beat everyone else and get you at the second auction.”
    He peck s my lips with his, and I got in Luke’s car.             
    “What was that?” Luke asked looking at me strangely.
    “What was what?” I ask back.
    “Well, I might be mistaken, but it looked like he just kissed you.”
    I smile a little bit, “Oh, that.”
    “Jenna!” Luke says in an almost shout. “The point was to get him to stop liking you. Not to let him kiss you!”
    “I realize I completely misjudged Hayden. He is actually a really nice guy. And I don’t care anymore if he buys me at the auction.”
    Luke looks like he is about to yell at me again. But he just breathes in and then starts the engine.
    There is a long silence and usually when this happens he starts the radio. But he never did. “So are you two dating now?”
    I look at him surprised, “I don’t know.”
    “How do you not know?” he smiles in an exasperated way. “He kissed you while saying goodbye! And who know s what happened before that.”
    I lean up in my chair a little bit, “What is that supposed to mean?”
    He breathes again, “Nothing.”
    I lean back again. What is happening?
    “If I were you,” Luke starts. “I would ask him. Hayden’s never really been the relationship type.”
    This gets to me a little. I don’t know if Luke meant it to bug me or not, but it does. Why would Luke say something like that?
    “What does that mean?” I wonder out loud.
    Luke