I could feel the warmth radiating from her through my pants. You deserve better. “Because I’m not boyfriend material,” I said, slightly altering the excuse she gave me a few weeks ago. Then I went to see Natalie and asked her to break up with her guy and date me. “Oh,” I said, sensing something was up. Don’t get me wrong—the Starlight girls are good people, mostly, but you and Emily… Erin… you’re different. We’re not the last ones to arrive,” Helen said, taking a seat opposite Erin. I gave them as much of a breakdown of the conversation as I could remember, which reduced the forty-five-minute conversation to a minute and a half… not a minute. While I didn’t think Natashya would lie to me, she did have a little bit of a manipulative streak. Helen had just returned, I was trying to keep my relationship with Emily from falling apart, Roger and Ashlee VanCamp were on the loose, Jess would be moving in this weekend, and my relationship with Bobbi was developing into… something.
