“Oh! Okay, well that’s good to know. I forgot I hadn’t used condoms, good thing you are on birth control. That was the first time I wasn’t prepared.” He laughed as Audrey stood quietly in her driveway.
It was a perfect opening for her to tell him, but instead of taking it, she crumbled the piece of paper in her hand and sadly said, “Yeah.”
Come see me.
No.
Please, I need to see you.
What do you want, Levi? I’m not having sex with you. I’m done with all that.
No, it is not that. I want to talk about giving this thing you call “forever” a shot.
“Please God, Audrey. Do not go in there,” Piper pleaded over the phone. Audrey sat in her car outside the Starbucks on West End. She was supposed to meet Levi in the coffeehouse a few minutes ago, but at the last second she freaked out and called Piper.
“I need to know what he wants,” she told her friend.
“Oh my God! Who cares? What about Tate?”
“I know, but we are just friends who are kinda moving into dating. We aren’t fully there yet. I’m not doing anything wrong on that side,” she pointed out.
“You are acting like a fucking idiot, Audrey, and I’m done with it. That asshole doesn’t deserve you, and you allow him to fuck with your head!”
“How am I acting like an idiot? I told him to meet me at a public place because I didn’t want the risk of him trying to sleep with me, and not knowing how this was going to go, I wanted to be careful.”
“Whatever, Audrey. What about Tate? Don’t you care at all?”
“Yes, I do, and you know it.”
“Audrey, what the hell? This is insane, it’s like I don’t even know you.”
“I am the same person I was when we met, nothing has changed. I need closure and I need answers,” Audrey argued At a knock on her car window, she looked up and saw Levi with a pissed off look on his face. She didn’t like how he looked, which was unusual. She usually did. He looked rough. What was wrong with him?
“Audrey?”
“Levi is at the window,” she said into the phone, then hung up while Piper screamed something at her.
Audrey opened the window halfway and said, “Hey.”
“What the hell, I’ve been waiting for almost twenty minutes.”
“I was on the phone,” she said simply.
“Obviously. Come on, let’s get out of here. We’ll go back to my house.”
“No, I don’t have time for that,” she said. “What did you want to talk about?”
Levi let out a frustrated breath before leaning against the car door. With a smirk on his face, he said, “You look good, cupcake, you all right?”
She nodded. “Just fine.”
“Good,” he said. “So do you miss me?”
She shrugged. “Sometimes.”
“Well I miss you. Why don’t we just bypass all this talk shit and get to what we both want.”
“I don’t want to bypass anything. I told you my terms, Levi. I don’t want to be just your fuck buddy.”
“Audrey, come on, this is stupid. Why are you doing this? I thought—”
“I thought you said you wanted to talk about forever?”
Levi laughed. “No, that was my way of getting you here. Nothing’s changed. I just want you, bad.”
“For fuck sakes,” she muttered, reaching to start her car.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m leaving,” she said through her teeth. “I’m fucking tired of it, Levi. I’m done.”
“Oh come on, why are you being like this? We both know that isn’t true. You want me.”
“You’re delusional. Move away from my car, please.”
“No, get out, let me talk to you,” he demanded, moving his arm into the car to hold onto her steering wheel.
“No, Levi, get your hand off the wheel and leave me be. Don’t bother me anymore.”