“Whatever, I bet you that I’ll smoke your ass one on one.” It was true. No matter what anyone said, I was the best around here. I was Mr. Basketball. No one could touch me. It was just who I was, it was in my blood. The guys and I were all hanging around the coffee table at a party. We didn’t even know who’s house it was, but from the looks of it, in the morning, the owner of the house wasn’t even gonna claim it. It was trashed.
“That’s a bet,” Mike told me and I just grinned. Another person was going to get their feelings hurt. What can I say? I run this school. Then we sat there and drank some more. That’s how it usually went. It was a big who’s who of drinking and acting like idiots, but it was fun. I’d rather be here than home or really anywhere else.
“So what’s up with your girl? She’s hangin’ out with the new kid a lot.”
My expression turned from a smile to a frown in no seconds flat and I just narrowed my eyes. Eventually, I just shrugged.
“She’s being charitable,” I joked and they all pretty much laughed and I just smiled. Yeah, whatever I said was gold with these guys, but sometimes it was just stupid.
“Yeah, she was doing more than being charitable this afternoon.”
We weren’t together anymore technically, but that didn’t mean anything. We’d break up and get back together like it was nothing and that was all this was. Nothing. That new kid? Was nothing. I was something, I had the trophy’s to prove it. That kid had jack shit.
An hour later, I finally decided to leave and head home. I had a practice in the morning with my dad that wasn’t looking forward to, mainly because he told me how bad I was. He always said it was for my own good, but I’d rather hear the good things and not the bad. I got in my jeep and drove off, heading home to impending doom. I hated being there. I liked being at Lexi’s, and I was almost tempted to go over there and surprise her, possibly getting back together and having get back together sex, but something stopped me.
Lexi. Sitting there at the red light, I watched her as she walked out of a store and I went ahead and cut a few lanes to get in the turning lane. Then I saw him. That new kid with her and my fingers gripped the steering wheel so hard, they almost went numb.
This was bullshit. She was just using him to make me jealous – and it was working. It was time to end this. She won and now she could come home with me and everything would be fucking fine. Pulling into the empty parking lot, I slammed on the breaks and got out of the jeep, walking over to them.