College Life (Alexis PoV)*

**** was approaching. I could feel it creeping closer with each passing second as I watched the second hand tick slowly around the clock.

Oh.

My.

God.

End it already. End my suffering. I welcomed the sweet embrace of ****.

“Okay. That about wraps it up for the day. Remember your report on—”

I was already gone. I bet I set the world record for fastest time from the third row to the door. God damn his lectures were boring. I don’t know why I let Natalie push me into this whole college thing. She was so much better at this stuff than I was. Her money was wasted on me. Literally nothing about college was good—

Hello there. I spun around as I walked backward, watching as the hot guy passed. My lower lip rolled into my mouth as I checked out his ass. What I wouldn’t do to get that between my legs—

Focus, Alexis. Jesus.

Truth was, I was a mess. The disastrous conversation with Jake the other night still had me reeling. The guy was a hard nut to crack. It’s what drew me to him at first. Wait, no. That was his looks. Definitely his looks. A bit on the thin side and had a ‘nerd’ atmosphere that I would normally hard pass on, but that face more than made up for any flaws. A face like that and I’d forgive him for having a tiny cock. I mean, within reason of course.

I shook my head. Really, Alexis. Focus.

Jake was hard to get a read on. It was fun teasing him. He was the ultimate challenge. One of these days I was going to get him to crack that stoic expression of his. I think I was getting to him. He pretended to be annoyed by my antics, but I saw the way he looked at me when I flaunted my goods his way. There was interest. I mean, who wouldn’t be? I had a killer body.

Really thought he was one of those passive nerd-types. That ended the first time he flipped a one-eighty and reversed my mojo back on me. It got me completely flustered. Still did to an extent considering I never knew when he was going to flip into his suave player form of unabashed confidence. Didn’t happen with other guys because they acted within a range of expectation. An interested guy would act on it when I flirted with him. Jake was all over the place. He could be a brick wall before suddenly being right in my face with his arms around me promising all I wanted from him.

Yet he never followed through.

I needed to fuck him already and get this out of my system. Why the hell was it so hard to drag him back into his room and have my way with him? Jake was just another hot guy to add to my ever-increasing belt notches. Just another guy. No problem.

So what was the problem?

Even now his words ate at me. What did I want? I wanted the same thing as every other hot guy to cross my path: fuck him. If he was good, I’d keep him around for when I was in the mood. Otherwise it was off to find the next hot guy to repeat the process with. That’s what I wanted. It’s what I’ve always wanted.

I remembered the way he looked at me. There was something frightening there. It wasn’t the look of an eighteen year old kid. He was seeing something I certainly wasn’t. Maybe that’s one of the reasons why I was so attracted to him. He was only a few years younger than I was but he carried himself with a maturity far exceeding even the college seniors.

Ugh. No guy should be dominating my thoughts like this. I was spending way too much time thinking about a guy I wasn’t even fucking.

“Freedom!” Grinning, I spun to find Victoria coming up to me. My eyes gave her a once over that was followed by an approving nod. Victoria was one of those girls that made everyone look worse standing next to her. I knew I was an attractive woman, but next to her I was plain as could be. Everything about her was perfectly proportioned and near flawless. Even her simple outfit of jeans and graphic tee made her seem like a model heading for the runway. She certainly walked like one. The way she dominated the attention of those around her made me envious, but it was something I was used to by now.

“I came this close to ****,” I complained as I held my thumb and index finger close together.

“Coffee?” the sexy blond asked, hooking her arm in mine.

“Liquor would be better.”

She rolled her eyes and dragged me off after her. “Still coming tonight?”

I didn’t answer right away. Jake’s question echoed in my mind.

Jake.

Fuck Jake.

Seriously. What the fuck? He was just one guy. Way too much brainpower was being spent on him recently. Needed to turn that off before things started to overheat upstairs.

“Yeah.”

“Woot! That’s my girl.”

I grinned as I settled into her pace. “Still a plus one required sort of party?”

“That going to be a problem?”

Names rolled through my mind. In seconds, I had a small list. “Nah.”

“’Course not.” We shared a laugh.

We talked shit about our classes as we headed to the one decent coffee place on campus. It felt good being with Victoria. Everything fell away. Didn’t have to worry about Natalie’s constant nagging. The pressure she was putting on me. I certainly didn’t have to worry about a frustrating neighbor boy.

Victoria left to go grab our orders. I took the opportunity to dial up the first on my internal list.

“Hey, Liam!” I giggled at his stupid joke while rolling my eyes. “Say, I was wondering if you were free tonight. There’s a party happening and I need a plus one…”