I'm not saying I got a thrill out of breaking their hearts but I also didn't really care if I did. It's not like I went around asking for it. They found me. These girls just wanted someone to give them a good time or keep them company for the night. It was sex and they were offering so why not. I couldn't respect them because they didn't even respect themselves. Now I wasn't out here having sex every night, let's get that straight. It may have been once a week or maybe every two weeks. A lot of times, they were even the same girls and I would be with them more than once a week until they decided they wanted more. They didn't deserve more. They knew what they were getting into. They started a sex-based relationship and ended up wanting feelings to be involved months later. How about no? So when they tried to start a relationship, I would just leave. Walk away. Forget them. Sometimes, the one-time girls didn't even bother to tell me their name the night but the next morning they want to be with me. Yeah, right. Try again. If you really wanted to be with me, you could've sat down and talked to me. You would've just gotten my number and we could of went out the next day. But y'all just assume that I want sex so that's what you offer. And I didn't even accept every girl's offer.

It was a regular friday night in September. It was my the beginning of my sophomore year. I had lived in this on campus apartment with my best friend Kenny since our freshman year. Kenny and I were just chilling playing 2k until he decided to pause the game.

"Hold on bro," he said as he picked up his ringing phone. "Hello."

"Nah, just playing 2k. Wassup?"

"Yeah, I'll tell him now. We'll meet y'all there," he says as he hangs up the phone. He doesn't even make eye contact until I say anything.

"Don't tell me we're going out," I groan.

"Come on, it'll be fun. Especially more fun with this," he says as waves the controller around.

"Alright fine."

"Be ready in 15 minutes. It's a house party."

I walks back into my room and go into my closet. I couldn't wear what I was wearing now considering that was basketball shorts & no shirt. I throw on this black tee, medium wash biker jeans and my adidas superstar. I walk out my room about 20 minutes later to see Kenny on the couch waiting for me.

"Well come on man."

Kenny and I always did house parties. We been doing them since the summer like one a week or maybe twice. I mean we are in college, what else would we do? The party scene was starting to bore us but we weren't gonna stay at our rooms. It was actually some light in here for once. Usually, it would be complete black and you would accidentally grab a girl's boob while trying to find your way.

We walked down to the basement and met up with my friends Kyle and Jax. That's when I saw her. I was standing over by the wall and over by the bar was three brunettes and one blonde. One of the brunettes was my best friend Eli's sister Sonia, the other one Kenny's best friend Jackie, the blonde was a mutual friend Emmah but the last brunette was the one that caught my attention. I never see her before but we made eye contact a couple times. She stood kind of tall, had long brown curly hair, hazel eyes and her skin was like a washed out light brown that still had some glow to it. She had on this black sweatshirt looking tight crop top, black high-rise midi skirt that defined her curves and barely showed you her stomach and some tie up pointy black high heels. There have been very few girls that I would want to come up to me and ask me to fulfill this void in their life but she was one of them. And they usually did, after being irritated that I didn't make the first move. But this girl wouldn't budge all night so I took a quick shot, I swallowed my pride and went over there. I walked over as her back was towards me and I knew her friends recognized me by the way they looked past her at me. Out of all of them, Sonia knew my ways and looked frightened on what I would do. I stand behind her for a second then...

"You wanna dance?" I semi-yelled behind her, just to make sure she could hear me over the music. She was talking to her friends so I tried to say it loud enough for her to hear me, but not so loud that I damaged her ears. I don't think she heard me cause Jackie stopped talking then nodded my way. She turned around and made eye contact with me. Her eyes were dark brown and she had the most angelic face. She looked at me kind of confused. Her face was basically asking me what did I want. So I had to swallow my pride for the second time tonight. This girl was really testing me and didn't even mean to.

"I was asking if you wanted to dance?" I repeated. She looked as if she was thinking about it and turned to her friends. They all smiled at her and she turned back at me.

"Sure why not," she says with a slight smile.

A/N: By the way, this story is a longer version of rose petals.