“Listen to your heart, not your head.”
I let out a breath and shook my head. “If only it was that easy, Grace. Love you.”
“Love you too, Luke. Bye.”
“Bye, Grace.” I pulled the phone from my ear and hit End. I stopped at Libby’s car and checked to see if her car door was open. If it was, I was going to have a long talk with her about how unsafe that was. Lucky for her it was locked. I turned and leaned against it as I waited for her to show up. My mind couldn’t help but drift back to holding her in my arms as we danced in the rain. The way she smelled. The way she smiled. Closing my eyes I let the memory take me back.
TAKING IN A deep breath, I made my way over to Luke. He was leaning against my car with his eyes closed. His brown hair looked like a hot mess. He must be working out more because I swear his muscles looked bigger. I wanted nothing more than to run my hands over his body. Memorize every inch of him.
Then her words hit me like a brick wall.
“Mmm … baby I can practically feel you moving in and out of me. I’m so wet right now, Luke. If I slipped my hand into my panties, I’d come on the spot just daydreaming about you all sweaty and fucking me against an old truck.”
My stomach flinched as I thought of Luke with Abigail. The way he was looking at her told me he was getting turned on by the way she was talking. Why couldn’t he look at me that way? Why didn’t he want me like he wanted her?
I cleared my throat as I walked up. Luke opened his eyes and gave me a weak smile. “Hey,” he said as I walked by and unlocked the driver’s side door.
“Hey,” I whispered back. Opening the door, I pulled the latch for the hood. Luke opened it and began checking everything out.
My feet felt like lead. I couldn’t move. I stood there as I waited for him to find out what was wrong with my car. He poked his head around and said, “I think it’s your battery. There is a lot of corrosion on it. You wouldn’t happen to have any Coke in your car, would you?”
I shook my head. “I don?
??t drink Coke.”
Luke frowned. “Since when?”
I shrugged my shoulders. “Since about two months ago.”
Luke made a funny face and then chuckled. “Good for you, Lib. That shit is not good for you anyway.”
I wasn’t in the mood for small talk with Luke. “Can you fix it without Coke?”
I instantly felt guilty when his smile faded. He looked back at the engine and then looked at me. “I need to get the corrosion all cleaned off and then take it off and take it to get tested. The battery might be bad.”
Not wanting to spend any more time with Luke, I slowly nodded my head. “Will can probably take care of this.”
Luke pulled his head back and narrowed his eyes at me. “I’m not allowed to help you now, Lib? I thought we were friends.”
I let out a laugh. “That’s right; you haven’t reminded me of our friendship in a while. We certainly aren’t on the level of friends that you and the brown-haired Barbie doll at the library are. She seemed a bit pissed I walked up and interrupted your porn talk.”
“What did you hear?” Luke asked as he stepped around the car and walked toward me.
Swallowing hard, I watched his muscles move under his tight T-shirt as he made his way over to me. His eyes looked up and down my body and I was cursing myself for wearing sweatpants and an A&M T-shirt. I was sure I looked frumpy. I went to talk but nothing came out. I cleared my throat. “Enough to turn my stomach.”
Luke stopped walking. His eyes filled with something I wasn’t sure I’d ever seen before. He turned and started toward his truck as my heart starting beating faster. “Where … where are you going?” I called out.
He looked over his shoulder. “To my truck to get tools. I need to take your battery out and take it in to be tested.”
Glancing back to my car I nodded my head.
I SAT IN Luke’s truck and watched him walk out of the auto store carrying a new battery. I jumped out of the truck. “Your battery was no good.”
“How much do I owe you for the new battery?”
Luke set the battery in the bed of his truck. He looked at me and said, “Nothing.”
He opened the door to his truck, got in and started it. I sighed as I got back in the truck and I leaned my head back against the seat. The drive back to campus was no better than the drive to the auto store. Luke didn’t utter a word to me. The radio was playing and when the first few beats of the song came on my stomach dropped. Blake Shelton’s “Do You Remember” was filling the silent air in the truck cabin. It was the song Luke and I danced to the night he first kissed me. He told me it would always be our song. I turned and looked out the window. Luke probably didn’t even remember. Seeing as he was able to kiss me and leave like nothing magical had happened between us.