“Here,” I said, throwing the hoodie at Karma.
“What’s this for,” she asked.
“I thought you might want to put it on over your top, you know, in case it’s cold out this morning.”
“Oh, okay, thanks. I hadn’t thought about that.”
“Ready?” I asked her.
“Yeah.”
We left the dorm and walked to my car.
“Where are we going?” Karma asked, as we were leaving the parking lot.
“There’s a diner I haven’t been to in a while. I thought we’d go there.”
“Cool.”
“What time are you girls leaving today?” I asked.
“We have to be at the airport at 12:30.”
I knew they’d been planning to drive home for the break, but Major had insisted he buy them plane tickets and rent them a car, something about having to drive halfway across the country in December was a bad idea. He was so pussy whipped.
I pulled up to the diner and was glad when I didn’t see a line outside. We went in and sat at a booth. We both ordered coffee while Karma looked at the menu. I didn’t have to look at it since I always ordered the same thing when I came here for breakfast.
“What’s good?” she asked.
“Everything,” I told her. She gave me a look. “Really. You can’t go wrong with anything you order.”
The waitress came back with our coffees. “Have you decided?” she asked us.
I looked at Karma, she nodded. “Go ahead,” I told her.
“I’ll have the Denver omelette with crispy hash browns and wheat toast please,” she said.
“Same,” I said. “But with white toast please.”
The waitress left and I was staring at Karma.
“What?” she finally said.
“It’s just weird.”
“What’s weird?”
“I always get the Denver omelette when I come here, and you just happened to order the same thing. It’s just weird.”
She shrugged. “Whatever. It sounded good this morning. So, what are your plans for the break?” she asked, changing the subject.
“We, I mean, my parents, sister and I, are going skiing in Colorado for Christmas then Hawaii for New Year’s. We do it every year.”
“Wow, must be nice to have money,” she said, with maybe just a hint of jealousy. “I’ve never done much travelling. The sport of diving is more expensive than you’d think so most of our extra money went for that.”
I didn’t know how to respond to that. Money was never something I’d ever had to worry about. As a teenager, my sister and I had been all over the world on family vacations, so it was normal for me. I needed to remember that wasn’t the case for everyone.
“What are you doing over the break?” I asked.
“Probably catching up with friends from high school mostly,” she said. “Of course, there’ll be the family dinner for Christmas. Nothing as exciting as Hawaii.”
“You want to come with us?” I asked, before thinking.
Karma laughed. “As fun as that sounds, my parents would kill me if I didn’t spend my first break from college with them. And besides, we’d probably kill each other.”
“Yeah right,” I said, trying to make a joke of it, but I’d been serious. What the hell was wrong with me?
We started talking about nothing important and soon the food arrived.
“Oh wow,” Karma said. “This looks amazing.”
She took a bite and moaned. That sound took me right back to last night.
“Good?” I managed to say, like I wasn’t thinking about fucking her right here on the table.
“So good. I’ll have to remember where this place is so I can come back.”
Putting all my concentration into my food, I willed my semi-hard dick to go back to normal. I really didn’t want to walk out of the diner with a hard on.
We finished eating and true to her word Karma tried to pay for breakfast, but I was faster. I threw thirty bucks on the table and stood up. She gave me an amused look but didn’t say anything. I think that might have been a first.
“Thanks for breakfast,” she said, when I dropped her off at her dorm. “And have a good trip. Think of me when you’re lounging on the beach.”
Thinking about her wasn’t going to be the problem. Trying to forget about her was.
Chapter 3
Karma
The alarm on my phone went off and I did my best to make it stop. I tried to grab it off my nightstand, but ended up knocking on the floor. By the time I picked it up the alarm had stopped and started again. I finally hit dismiss and looked at the time. It was 5:30am and I had practice in thirty minutes.
As I slowly got out of bed, I thought about the last two weeks. It had been good to go home and see everyone, but I was actually glad to be back at school.
Today was the start of my second semester at Bay State University. I still had a hard time believing that I was here on a full ride scholarship for diving and that my best friend was here with me. While I was on the dive team, Kayleigh was on the swim team, but it was nice that we got to practice and compete together.
I met her in the main area of our dorm room. She already had our morning smoothies ready. We drank them on the way to the Davenport Swim Complex where we practiced and competed. I still thought it was funny that her boyfriend’s parents were the ones who donated the money to have it built. We didn’t know who Major was when we first met him and had no clue that he was beyond wealthy. It took a while, but Kayleigh and Major finally figured out their feelings for each other and were now practically inseparable.
Major and Bodie had grown up together, just like Kayleigh and I did. I think Kayleigh was hoping that Bodie and I would become an item, but I didn’t date seriously, and I was pretty sure Bodie didn't date at all. Don’t get me wrong, he was gorgeous as fuck, but he was a player through and through.
After practice, I got ready for the day. I had three classes today and I was looking forward to seeing if I got any hot professors to stare at for the rest of the year.
****
“So, you’ll never guess who’s in two of my classes this semester,” I said to Kayleigh, as I walked into our dorm room.
“Bodie,” Kayleigh said, with a smirk.
“You’re no fun. How did you know?”
“Major told me. I guess Bodie was already complaining about you.”
I threw my bag at her. “He was not complaining about me, he loves me,” I said, with a wink. “I didn’t even talk to him.
“I think that’s what he’s complaining about,” she said with a grin. “Are you ever going to tell me what happened between you two?”
“Nothing happened. He’s a player and I guess so am I. End. Of. Story.”
Kayleigh looked at me like I was lying to her, and I was. No one knew that Bodie and I had had sex, and especially that I lied about it. I was doing my best to forget the whole incident.
Did I like Bodie? Sure. He was nice enough and of course he was hot, but so were ninety percent of the guys on campus and I wasn’t about to spend all my time with one guy. I liked sex, a lot, and I liked trying out different models so to speak. I knew Kayleigh still didn’t understand that, but it was just how I was built. I liked variety while she was a one flavor kind of girl.