The warm and fuzzy feeling returns as Bizzy makes her own kissing sound. “The kiss was classic.”
“We haven’t slept together yet,” I blurt with no hesitation.
Smooth, Grace.
“Not long now,” Claire surmises. “If today was any indication, you’re in for a treat when you get home.”
Bizzy gives a twinkly giggle until she snorts, nodding again.
I don’t know what comes over me; maybe it’s the alcohol, maybe it’s the atmosphere, but whatever it is, I decide to open up to these girls. “Actually, he won’t have sex with me. We’ve come close, but he somehow stops us. We’ve spent the last few nights together, and he never lets it go too far. It’s a little unnerving.”
“He’s waiting.” Bizzy lays a hand on my arm.
“On what?”
“Today.”
“Today?”
“It was important to him for you to see this, be here watching him play, meeting his family… He may be Sexy Six to most of the world, but he’s old fashioned and traditional. He cares about you.”
“Fucking voodoo ESP,” Claire mutters.
“I care about him, too. I can’t believe how much in such a short period of time. Usually, I’d never, ever be talking about this. We just reconnected. Does it make me a hussy that I want him to have sex with me?”
“No,” both reply at the same time.
“I told you, I slept with Shaw almost immediately,” Bizzy reminds me.
“But you’d known him forever,” I counter.
“I slept with Mathis two days after meeting him,?
? Claire announces.
My and Bizzy’s heads both snap to her so fast my neck cracks.
“You what?” Bizzy chokes out. “How didn’t I know this?”
Claire shrugs her shoulders and takes a drink. “I didn’t tell anyone until now. It’s happened a few times, but then he told me we had to stop.”
“When?” Bizzy’s face goes pale.
“It happened the first time when he came to visit Nick at school, the weekend you introduced us.”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Because I thought it was a one-time thing, but then it happened the next few times we saw each other.”
“Why’d he tell you it had to stop?” My curiosity runs wild.
“It was a huge coincidence Mathis was doing his residency at the same hospital Bizzy and I got job offers. According to him, there was too much at stake. He was starting his career, and the way we were connected through Bizzy was high risk, so he ended it.”
“Were you into him?”
“Yep, totally crazy about him. I had heart-shaped glasses on, but there was no way in hell I was going to tell him that, so I agreed and we went back to being friends. It’s been a few years now, and we get along great.”
“I can’t believe this!” Bizzy mumbles. “I mean, it makes sense, the way he looks at you.”