Always Us (We Were Us Series Book 2) by Unknown Read Free Book Online

eyes.
    “What are you going to dress up as?” He winked at me.
    “I thought I’d just come naked,” I shrugged. Andrew stumbled and fell backwards on his butt. I stopped walking and just stood there laughing at him as he rolled around on the ground trying to get up.
    “Don’t lie about this stuff.” He stood quickly and leaned in close to my face. The warmness in his eyes from just seconds ago has now been replaced with raw desire.
    “I,” I sputtered out.
    “Jenna, I don’t know what happened this summer, but I knew what we were all last year. We denied it. We denied our feelings for each other and I regret that and I’m sorry. But you are done with him, and I’m here, and I want you.”
    His words floored me. He wanted me. I wanted him. Of course I did. His eyes bore into me, waiting for an answer.
    “I was thinking of being a spider?” I finally said although it came out more as a question than a statement. 
    “I think that’s a great idea,” he smiled and I just stared at his upturned mouth.
    Andrew loomed over me before leaning in. I knew for a fact he was about to kiss me. He didn’t though, because at that precise second, Stefanie’s voice rang out.
    “Jenna!” Her voice rose half of an octave on the last syllable of my name.
    I sighed heavily. If I do anymore sighing, I’ll run out of breath and die. Of course I’m being dramatic, but all I’ve done lately is sigh about things.
    Andrew moved aside and crossed his arms over his chest next to me.
    “Jenna, look what your friend did.” She shoved her phone in my face.
    I took the phone from her hand and positioned it at a more appropriate distance from my face. It was a picture of our bathroom, the mirror specifically. Someone had written in red lipstick A PRETTY FACE DOESN’T MEAN A PRETTY HEART. I bit my lip to keep from laughing, but Andrew, who had been peeking over my shoulder did nothing to stifle his laughter.
    “It’s not funny! That was expensive lipstick! I can’t afford to buy anymore!” Stefanie was fuming. “You owe me Jenna. This is unacceptable.” She snatched her phone back and stalked away.
    “Trouble in paradise?” Andrew asked.
    “Yeah.” I waved him off.
    “Do you want to talk about it?” he asked
    “Not really. I mean, I knew Michelle and Stef weren’t getting along, it was evident from day one. Stef had assumed she and I would be the only people living in that apartment, and then I brought Michelle and Lauren so we are packed in there pretty tight. Stef’s just jealous.”
    We kept walking across the quad, going nowhere in particular.
    “I’m sorry,” he said.
    “It’s fine. I just don’t know what to do about it. Stef wants me to do something, but I just don’t know.”
    A raindrop fell on my shoulder. I looked up, the grey clouds mimicked the angry swirling around that this situation was causing in my gut.
    “Let’s hurry or we’re going to get wet.”
    Andrew grabbed my hand and we sprinted the rest of the way to the science building just in time. As soon as the glass door slammed shut behind us, the clouds ripped open, releasing the rain they had held onto.

CHAPTER FIVE
     
    It was too quiet when I walked into the apartment after class. Someone was home, I knew that much, but the tension that radiated from the back rooms was thick.
    “Hello?” I called. Nothing. “Hello?” I called again. I set my bag down on the couch, I walked through the living room. I glanced into the kitchen and noticed the refrigerator door was open and food was laid out all over the counter and our small dining room table.
    A door slammed in the back startling me. Stef rushed at me, took me by the shoulders, and shook me. “Michelle took a bite out of all the food. All of it.” Her eyes were wild and shifted between mine and all the food.
    I just stood there staring at her. All I could think was did she eat the eggs raw? Which would have been the completely wrong thing to say at this moment. Stefanie e was