“What’s up, Felix?” she asked, not an ounce of anger in her voice. I expected her to be furious from our earlier conversation, but she only sounded curious. I wondered what she had spoken to Theo about before I had come down. I wouldn’t have been surprised if they were talking about me–maybe Theo was bad-mouthing me, trying to keep Savannah’s beauty to himself.

I tried to smile back, my lips stiff from years of disuse. I was sure I either looked pissed or deranged. “I wanted to talk to you about what happened earlier. I uh…I wanted to apologize.”

Her mouth dropped open so wide, I wanted to shove something inside it to see if she’d notice. My dick, for starters.

Bad fucking idea to imagine that standing in front of her. Now I was hard as a rock, picturing her on her knees in front of me, tongue and hand working together to draw moans from my mouth. Damn it all...

“You don’t have to apologize, Felix. It was as much my fault as it was yours. I poke buttons I shouldn’t.” She shrugged, tossing her long blonde hair over her shoulder. It was loose today, cascading in a mess of honey gold waves. I didn’t think it was possible for her to get any prettier than she was on her first day here.

“No, I do.” I ran my thumb over my lip, wondering how to word what I needed to say next. Finally I just took a deep breath and spit it out as one long sentence. “I-just-wanted-to-say-that-you-can-fuck-whoever-you-want-and-I’ll-still-want-to-be-with-you.”

I breathed out, and looked down to find her staring at me in complete confusion. “I’m sorry, but I didn’t catch one word of that. Slow down, and try again.” She shuffled closer, and held my hand with an encouraging smile, like I was a nervous child in the school play.

“I wanted to tell you I don’t mind you and Theo spending time together. I don’t mind that we all have sex together. I don’t mind any of it. I still want to be with you, just the same.” Her hazel eyes were boring holes into my soul, and I had to glance away. I looked to the side, locking onto Theo’s amused expression, and immediately looked the other way.

“You want to be with me?” she whispered.

I snapped my head back towards her. “Of course I do, you silly girl. Whatever gave you the impression otherwise?”

“Ummm….basically everything you do?” Savannah laughed, and I glared at her until she stopped. She didn’t stop smiling though. “Seriously, Felix, most of the time if we're talking, we’re fighting. And if we aren’t fighting, we’re fucking. Where is there room to realize you want to be with me when hot and cold are the only extremes we share?”