"You call me at the oddest times."
"I have an odd schedule. What's going on?"
Paris put down her notebook, glad to have a distraction from the Russian authors she was supposed to studying. "Not a lot. Nothing new, really."
"We haven't talked in almost three weeks and you've got nothing new?"
"Well, classes are frankly exhausting. I'm either in class or doing homework. There hasn't been much to report."
"Uh huh," Jess said, sounding skeptical. "So that's what you've been doing all month? Just homework?"
"Why don't you believe me?"
"Because you sound like you're not telling me something that you want to tell me."
Paris sighed. "Fine. If you must know, Doyle and I are officially dating. Exclusively. We are in an exclusive relationship. And it's going well." She couldn't help but smile a little bit. "Very well."
"That's great. That's not really news though. You couldn't stop talking about him last time we talked. What else is going on?"
Jess was annoyingly persistent when he wanted to be. "If you really want to know, Logan and Rory are also in an exclusive boyfriend-girlfriend type relationship. I don't know why you just don't come out and ask about her instead of beating around the bush. You clearly want to know what's going on, even though you pretend you don't. It's completely transparent."
"I didn't mean you had to tell me what was going on with Rory."
"You obviously did. Fine, if you weren't talking about Rory we can talk about my classes. We're learning about the male reproductive system in my anatomy class. Do you want to talk about penises? I know all about them now."
"Jeez. No, I'll pass on that. How are your other classes?"
Paris rolled her eyes. "You didn't call to talk about my classes. You called to find out what's going on with Rory and Logan. And now you know. If you're done using me for information, can I get back to my studying?"
"I wasn't using you! It was just annoying that you were clearly trying to hide it from me. Now it's out in the open and I can change the topic. Do you want to hang out in the city this weekend? Saturday? There's a really cool art show going on that I think you could get into. Bring Doyle, make a day of it."
"I can't on Saturday, but I'm sure I can find a time in my schedule soon to visit. I could probably convince Rory to come if I don't tell her I'm meeting you there."
"No. That's okay. Don't do that. Just tell Doyle about it and get back to me, okay?"
"If that's what you really want," Paris said, pleased that he wanted to hang out but not at all convinced that he didn't want her to bring Rory along too.
"It is. Just friends, hanging out. No big deal."