Free Crushed by S.B. Alexander

his whore
groupie girls. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t feel something for him, I
want him to change his mind, I want him to want me, but I know he doesn’t.
    After
spending so much time with Alex tonight, I realized I liked him too. I went my
entire life with no boy problems and now I had two

Chapter 13
    I
grabbed a venti espresso drink at Starbucks the next morning before heading
over to Ryan’s. I had fun with Alex last night, but I was seriously paying for
staying up so late
    Before
Lacey left for work, I told her about what had happened with Ryan the night
before. She didn’t seem surprised in the least with his behavior “That’s Ryan
for you” she said
    When
I pulled up to Ryan’s he was in his home gym, bench pressing what I had to
assume was 3 times what I weighed the bar bells were huge. He was listening to
Nine Inch Nails on the stereo system, I didn’t think he would hear me come in.
    I
took a second just to watch him. He seemed angry, he was grunting with each
repetition. Sweat soaked through his grey tank top, his legs were draped over
the side of the work out bench. He looked ferocious, not someone I would ever
want to make truly angry
    “Hey”
I said as loud as I could over the music.
    He
paused in the middle of his rep, and then quickly did 5 really fast ones.
    “Hey”
he said, grabbing a towel hanging on the edge of the bench and wiping his face
before sitting up
    I
waited for him to get up and tell me what he wanted me to do. When he sat up,
he just sat there staring at me.
    “I’m
going to go drink my coffee in the kitchen, if that’s okay. You can just let me
know when you are ready to tell me what to do.”
    I
turned out before he could say anything
    About
15 minutes later, he came down stairs, fresh from the shower.
    He
grabbed a bowl and a box of fruity pebbles from on top of the refrigerator.
    “Really?”
I asked eyeing his choice of breakfast cereal
    “What”
he said looking down at his bowl as he added a ton of milk
    “That’s
what a guy who bench presses 300 pounds easy eats for breakfast? I thought you
would have some crazy healthy, flavorless egg whites.”
    “No,
I eat what I want, I just work out enough that it doesn’t really matter.” He
says
    “Ah,
well I don’t blame you, I wouldn’t want to give them up either even if it means
I could look like that.”  I said gesturing to him
    He
laughed “well thanks, I think?”
    I
smiled, looking down at my coffee.
    “So”
He said, taking a chair next to me “I need to go to my agents office and pick
up the next script that is being offered to me, then I need to get my dry
cleaning and when I am done I need to head over and see my parents and bring
them some dog food for Riley”
    None
of those sounded too hard
    “Then
I need you to read this script with me and if I decide to take it, you can call
my agent back and let her know. Then you can help her figure out a time for me
to go audition, but Cindy doesn’t think I will be auditioning, which is why I
am getting a script already. They want me for the part, the rest is fine
details if I choose to take the role”
    “Okay”
is all I say
    We
head out to his Escalade. I’ve never been in one before, I know they are fairly
expensive, but I wasn’t expecting it to be so roomy inside.
    Ryan
walked over to the passenger side with me and opened the door “It’s a high step
up there, I have larger tires than a regular SUV, makes me feel all manly”
    He
reached for my hand and helped me step up into the truck as soon as I sat down,
I went to pull my hand away but he was holding it tighter, looking down at it
deep in thought
    “Are
you okay?” I asked bringing his attention back to me
    “Yeah”
he smiled “let’s get out of here.”
     
    A
few minutes down the road, Ryan looked over at me “So, are you and Alex a thing
now”
    “Why
do you ask?” I look at him
    “I
just want to know” he says, shrugging his shoulders
    “I
like him, we hung out all