Date Me by Jillian Dodd

jealous Jake has Whitney?"
    He runs his hand through his hair and sighs. "No, it's just he was telling Bryce and Tyrese about other night. About how she was drunk. How hot the sex was. I guess she's different with him."
    "Our sex is different than it was with you and her, it would stand to reason that theirs would be different too,” I say, even though I know that Jake was talking about sex with Peyton, not Whitney.”
    "Yeah, I guess. Maybe she just wasn't that attracted to me."
    Knowing what I know about her wanting his brother instead, I'd say he's probably right. "Not to bring up my past, but I'm not the same with you as I have been before. You make me feel a whole lot sexier."
    He tries to pull my bra off. "You are sexier."
    “And I have to go. I’ll call you when I get back to my dorm.”

 
     
     
     
    Friday, September 30th
    Stranded on second base.
    Breakfast
     
    I’m sitting at breakfast with Riley and Dallas.
    “So, I’m giving up on boobs.” Dallas says.
    Riley is like, “You going gay, dude?”
    “Ah, no. But apparently some girl complained to a teacher about it, like I was sexually harassing her or some shit.”
    “That’s kinda lame,” I say.
    “It’s not like you were touching them or anything. Were you?” Riley asks.
    “Naw, I mean, not unless she wanted me to later.” Dallas grins. “But I decided that basically the psychic panty network and the boob guessing were really just pickup lines. Ways to talk to a girl, get her attention.”
    I nod my head. “I could see that.”
    “So, I have a new approach.”
    “Oh, boy, what’s that?”
    “I’m going to try a different pickup line every few days.”
    “Interesting idea.”
    “Maybe we could go off campus and try out a few,” Riley suggests.
    “Riley, are you trying to meet new girls? I thought you were crazy about Ariela?”
    “I am, but, shit. I told you. I’m stranded on second base. I haven’t been stranded on second base since seventh grade!”
    “Which means you like her.”
    “Yeah, maybe. We’ll see.”
    I turn to Dallas. “So does it start today? What’s your line? Try it out on me.”
    “I can’t just say it. I need to work it into the conversation.”
    The bells rings, reminding us it's time to head to our first class.
    "I'll walk over and refill my coffee. You come up to me and say it.”
    He rolls his eyes at me. “Fine.”
    “Wait,” Riley says. “I’m going to get coffee with her. I gotta hear this.”
    Riley and I wander up to the coffee thermoses, refill our cups, and then turn to walk to class.
    Dallas saunters up next to me. He’s wearing a very cute smile. It's the smile I noticed the first day, when I decided to go sit by him. He stops and lays his hand gently on my forearm.
    I stop walking and give him a confused look.
    He grins at me and says, “I just have to ask. Did you have Lucky Charms for breakfast this morning?”
    "Uh, no. Why?"
    "Cuz you look magically delicious.”
    I can’t help it. I grin back at him and laugh. Because if I didn’t have a boyfriend, I would totally fall for that.
    “I didn’t have Lucky Charms,” I say, “but now I wish I would have. You should say that to Katie today. It’d probably melt her panties off.”
    Riley hits Dallas on the back as he walks off to his first class. "I thought that was pretty lame.”
    "Only because you didn't think of it first." They both laugh, then Riley turns to me. "So I hear you asked Ariela to go shopping with you. Now Dallas and I will be stuck here alone."
    "Why don't you go to Columbia with Dawson?”
    "Dawson is going to Columbia?" He raises his eyebrows at me.
    "Yeah."
    "And you're okay with that?"
    "Uh, I think so. Should I not be okay with that?”
    "Camden is . . . well, he's trouble."
    "Trouble, how?"
    "I know what goes on there. Cam knows a lot of girls. Gets a lot of girls."
    I squint my eyes trying to follow. Then I realize what he's not saying and my eyes get big. "You think he's going to cheat on me?"
    "Cam is an