Ally told me that one of the main reasons she had turned Danny down was because he reminded her of Teddy. But apparently she had judged the book by the cover, and now thought he was a pretty decent person. He was an ass most of the time, but once you broke through that shell, he really was a good guy.
“Right, buddy. Well, I’m sure your mom loved her. You wanna meet up at Clammy’s for a beer? That jackass Riley bailed on me.”
“Nah, can’t. I’m heading over to Ally’s.”
“Aw, yeah man. Is it finally happening between you two? You know, me and the guys have this running bet on how long it would take for the two of you to finally hook up. My money’s on—”
“I don’t wanna hear that shit, dude,” I interrupted. “Only the three of you would seriously bet on something like that. I’ll meet up with you another time, but I need to head out so Ally doesn’t think I ditched her.”
“We wouldn’t want that. Hey, I keep forgetting to ask you. Have you heard from Kara again?”
I groaned when Danny brought up her name.
Did he really have to try to ruin my night or something? I had been hoping that I was done with her, especially after meeting Ally, but that didn’t seem to be the case. She first called about a month ago, and I had been stupid enough to answer the phone. She kept insisting that she needed to meet up with me, which was the reason for her call.
I told her exactly where she could stick her little meeting.
She had been calling and texting ever since. Danny told me just to change my number, or that he would handle her crazy ass for me, and that she was just trying to mess with my head by fucking around with me. I knew that’s exactly what was going on. I wasn’t a dumbass, but her calls were wearing me down.
We did have something together for a really long time, after all. It wasn’t like I instantly hated her the second she ended our relationship. You just can’t turn those feelings off for someone, no matter how big of a bitch they are.
I had finally given in when she called for the tenth time earlier this morning. I just wanted to get it over with. There was no way in hell we were getting back together, and absolutely no possible way I was giving up Gunther if she tried to pull that bullshit again. We were done. I was trying to move on, and I really wanted that to be with Ally.
“Nah, I think she must have finally given up.” Luckily, I was telling him over the phone or he would know right away that I was lying. I didn’t need Danny to give me any shit about Kara still having me pussy whipped, so I wasn’t telling him that I was going to meet her.
“Sure,” he dragged out. I could tell he didn’t believe me, but he left it at that. “Well, have fun with Ally. Don’t fuck up and let that one get away.”
Not a chance that was going to happen. “Later.”
I knew what Danny meant without him even having to say it, and I thought about it the whole way to Ally’s place. There was no way in hell I would let Kara come back into my life. It took her ending our relationship for me to see just how unhappy we had been.
I couldn’t be myself with her, so yeah, maybe our relationship had grown a little boring, but last time I checked it took two people to make things work. Being with Ally had shown me a lot of what I had been missing all these years.
“Come in,” I heard through the door, and I twisted the knob to find it unlocked.
The living room and kitchen were completely dark, and the only light I could see was coming from the direction of Ally’s room. Clearly we were alone and Ally was taking advantage of it. We didn’t really hang out here too often since Remy worked third shift, and we didn’t want to interrupt her sleeping with watching movies and eating take out.
I had no clue what was going on in Ally’s head as she called me into her bedroom. I was hoping she wanted to take whatever happened earlier a little farther; even just an inch would be good with me.
“Hey, you really shouldn’t leave your front door unlocked. What if I was some—”
Any coherent thought completely left my head as I rounded the corner and saw Ally standing there in nothing but the pale pink lacy underwear I felt up earlier, and a matching bra. I think I literally died and went to heaven right there on the spot. Clearly, I had to be dreaming.
“Holy shit.”
Ally
I chewed on the inside of my cheek to stop myself from laughing at the reaction I was getting out of Nick. I had been nervous as hell just to throw myself on out there like this, but I had a feeling he really wouldn’t mind.
And apparently, he didn’t.
I could tell that Nick was trying to take things slow with our relationship, and I appreciated that he knew that’s what I needed. But at the same time, what I really needed right now, was him. I was done putting my life on hold just because one relationship hadn’t worked out. I wasn’t going to let another one not happen because of it.