Jen grinned as she moved over and gave me a big hug. "I know. I told him he shouldn't have because the glasses added character."

Kent shook his head. "You didn't have to wear the glasses, Jen." He sounded slightly annoyed, but it soon faded as he looked at me. "You look good, Elly."

I nodded as I looked at him. I looked good. Good? Was that good or bad? Average? Did he notice my boobs in this top?

Kent didn't get to say any more because Jen followed right after him. "Yeah, Elly. You look amazing. Did you lose like a hundred pounds or something? I can actually see your collarbones." Jen was trying to be nice in her way, which wasn't very. She reached out and traced the bones that were once hidden by fat.

I shrugged off the sting of her words after briefly looking over Kent's hardened form. God how I itched to reach out and touch him. His biceps looked much bigger than they had last Thanksgiving when I’d seen him. But I knew that would be an unwelcome touch and completely inappropriate given that his girlfriend was standing right next to him.

I swallowed back my lusty feelings and forced my smile a little brighter as I clenched my fists and crossed them over my chest, tucking them into my elbows to try to hide the possible give-away that I wanted to punch Jen in her pretty face. "Yeah… So, are you guys on-campus or off-campus this year? I'm on-campus in the Goodman dorm. A single. I was so stoked when I got my letter this summer."

Kent shook his head and smiled just enough to erase the frown off his face. “I’m on-campus in a triple and Jen is off-campus.”

Jen was smiling, probably reveling in the fact that her parents could afford to house her off-campus while the rest of us had to man up and live like poor college students we were.

I smiled, trying to make it as genuine as possible. "That's great! Which apartment building?" I could see that Kent was about to speak but Jen butted in."

I’m just off Polk Street like a hundred feet from campus."

"That's so great! I'd love to come by and see it sometime. If I'm invited, of course." I inwardly cursed myself as I glanced between them. I hadn't wanted to look at him! But it was done now, and I wasn't sure if I was relieved to see that he didn't look very happy or not. It was probably just because Jen was taking over the conversation.

Jen smiled and nodded. "Yeah, I know Kent is officially in the dorms this year but I’m sure he’ll be over all the time. He has his own dresser and everything. And we stay pretty busy, but I'm sure we can find time to have you over."