Walls – Chapter 1 – Does she? Does she not?
"It was one night, Troy. Please don't make things weird."
Troy searched her face for a minute. He was trying to figure out if what she meant was, "Try harder, stupid." Or, did she really mean what she was saying. Did she really mean for last night to be a drunken mistake?
After a minute of loaded silence, he said, "Ok. Well, glad we had this talk." He smiled brightly, "Thanks for letting me off the hook. I just didn't want things to get awkward now since we have all the same friends and all."
She flashed a quick half-hearted smile and kept looking at the counter, "Sure. No problem."
Troy nodded in a silent response. She wasn't meeting his eye. Inwardly he smiled because he knew that she didn't mean what she was agreeing to. "K, well I've got studying to do." He gave her a suave smile as she glanced up at him before he walked back to the table. He had a pretty strong belief now that she wanted more with him than a drunken one-night stand. It was just a matter of getting past that wall she'd built up around her heart.
He sat down and started working on his psych paper. He glanced up and caught Chad looking at him with a knowing smirk on his face. Troy smiled back conspiratorially, gave him a quick nod, and went back to work.
The dark haired, hot body at the counter never noticed their exchange.
