Lying With Temptation (3 page)

Cade cuts him a glare and Russ burst out laughing, “Finally my cousin has quit acting like a priest around you.”

They go out for practice and I start running the rocks.

~*~

When their practice is over I hear Cade whistle.  I make my last run down the rocks and jump on Cade’s back.  “Okay now since you’ve killed me this morning you can carry me back to my apartment.”

“Yeah right, get off me I’m sweaty and I don’t want your bo…”

I let myself down and punch him in the arm, “Remember you might want children one day.”

Linc looks over to me, “Hey Gabby are you gonna come work out with us in the weight room?”

I take a big drink of water, “What time?  I’ve got an interview for a T.A. job for Professor Jennings, this afternoon at 3.”

“Oh, um how about after your interview then.”

I nod…”Okay sounds good.”  I look at Cade.

He smiles, “Sorry Gab I’ve lined up and extremely beautiful coed from your building for this afternoon.”

Russ looks at him, “Don’t you mean I lined us up a couple of roommates from my building.”

Cade shakes his head, “Well I didn’t see her roommate refusing to go out with me.”

I shake
my head, “Come on the testosterone is too much for me here.  Let’s head back to the dorms.”

As I jog back up to the dorms, I wonder what Russ meant earlier by saying that Linc finally quit acting like a priest around me.  Linc’s always seemed pretty shy…I mean don’t get me wrong he’s hot as hell…but he seems like he’s a people watcher.  He never says much and when he does he’s not like the other guys…he just hangs out and talks.
  We really haven’t even gotten to do that because of his summer practice schedule and their camps.

The day creeps along and now I’m sitting here waiting for my interview…God I hope I get this job.  I really don’t want to work in fast food or anything.

“Gabriella Lewis.”

I look at who I’m guessing is Professor Jennings, whoa he’s hot and the way he said my name just makes me….holy crap.

I stand up, “Yes.”

He motions for me to come in, “Hi I’m Professor Jennings
.”

After about forty-five minutes that didn’t really seem that long, because we talked non-stop.  He let’s me know that I have the position, he can tell I’m fit for the job and he’s willing to let me work around my cross country schedule.  Now I need to go get ready for the weight room.
  Just thinking about Linc’s chest working out, sweating, the way his gym shorts hang on his hips and show his little light brown happy trail running down to… oh Jesus help me.

Chapter 3

Linc

I’m standing here actually nervous about what I’m going to work out in…jeez.  I’m really nervous and kind of excited at the thought of being alone with Gabby.  I mean she’s not your ordinary beautiful girl…she doesn’t even know that she’s gorgeous.  I hear her she just came in from her interview. 

I step out into the living room, “Hey Gabby I’m ready to go when you are.”

She smiles, “Okay just let me get changed.”

She comes back out a few minutes later in a hot pink sports bra tank top thingy, that make her boobs look fucking delicious and yet another pair of those little black shorts. 
Damn this girl…cold showers, my great granny, my parents…okay whew.

She looks up, “Okay I’m ready.”

We get to the weight room and thank God we are the only people in here because the way I’m feeling right now…if anyone made a move on her, I’d beat their face in. 

She looks around, “Okay so what do you want to do first?”

I point to the bench, “I’ll spot you first.”

After a couple of hours she looks at me, “Okay I think we’re done, I’m going to be sore as hell in the morning.  All the running and then these weights…after a month off.
”

I laugh, “Ugh yeah, you probably will.”

When we get back to the apartment Russ is still out on his date and Daria left a note saying that she went home for the weekend.

She looks at me, “So since it looks like it’s just us, you wanna order a pizza or some Chinese?”

“Chinese sounds good to me.”

She grabs the menus from the counter, she takes out a pen and circles something, “That’s what I want, I’m going to take a shower.”

I sit down with the menu and call the delivery place and my mind wonders off to Gabby naked in the shower…ugh… I have to stop I made this big deal to Russ about not messing with the roommates and here it’s the only damn thing I can think about.  She thinks I’m shy, but I honestly find it hard to form words around her.  I want her so bad that I’m afraid if I say too much it’s just going to tumble out.  Russ knows I can read it in his eyes…he knows me too well.  I think Cade suspects it too.  He’s so freakin protective over her…I wonder why.  Does he like her or something?  I mean, he seriously tries to cock-block anyone who walks her way.  Russ asked him about it, but he says that…she’s not ready.  Whatever the hell that means.

“Showers all yours.”  She says as she walks into her room wearing nothing but a little short bath robe.  Ugh, all I want to do is grab her up in that robe and bury myself in her. 

“Yeah thanks, I ordered the food, money is on the counter.  I’m getting in the shower now.”  So I can take a cold one….jeez.  I stand here under the cold water and think about her…I smell her shampoo and soap…man I gotta stop this shower is doing no good, when I keep thinking about her.

I finally manage to calm down as I get out of the shower I realize in my hurry to get in here I forgot my damn clothes.  I wrap my towel around myself and force myself to calm down and walk across the apartment to my room.  As I walk out of the bathroom she’s standing in the kitchen unpacking our food. 

She starts to speak without looking up, “I was wondering if you drown in…the-re.”  She looks up about the time she is finishing and I can see her blush a little.  She turns her head down, damn is that a smirk on her face.  I try and act like I don’t see it, I gotta go get clothes on, otherwise this is about to get middle school embarrassing.

After putting on some pajamas I walk back out into the living room, “So are we going to eat in the kitchen or do you want to find a movie and veg out on the couch?”

She looks up, “Couch and a movie sounds good to me.”  Holy crap those eyes, sometimes they’re green, sometimes they’re brown…I really can’t tell.  I just want to stare into them for hours.  We grab our food and flop down on the couch and start flipping through the movies on. 
  I look at her, “What kinds of movies do you like, comedy, horror,
romance?
” 

She laughs, “Pretty much anything, I’m cool with whatever.  As far as
romance
goes…Cade is who I normally end up watching movies with…so you know I don’t get to watch much of that.”

“How about Napoleon Dynamite?”

She smiles, “Sounds good to me.  You know I think today is the most I’ve ever heard you talk.  Well to anyone other than Russ.”

“Yeah, sorry…I don’t really get to talk to girls much…I mean I had the same girlfriend for like three years and she was kind of possessive.”

She laughs, “So you’re saying you’re out of practice talking to girls.”

I nod and smirk, “Yeah something like that.  How did your interview go?”

She smiles, “Oh it went awesome, I start Monday.  He seems pretty cool; do you have him for any classes?”

“Yeah, I have him when the fall semester starts for Purpose of Art.”

She smiles, “Do you know what time yet?”

“Umm, I think it’ll be like the eleven o’clock
class.”

She laughs, “Me too.  At least I’ll have someone in there.”

“How do you manage to get a T.A. job for a class you are going to have?”

“I asked that same question, he said it wouldn’t be a big deal I just won’t assist in anything from my class and that is the only time that he’s teaching that course this semester, so it’s not like I can look at the other kids work.”

I nod, “Okay sounds good.”  Now’s as good a time as any, “So you and Cade?”

She laughs, “Please don’t tell me you think…”

“Oh no! I’m just wondering how you guys got to be so close.  I mean you guys are constantly on each others asses about something…but I think he’d kill any guy who came near you.”

She laughs, “He’s been my best friend and next door neighbor since we were born.  He gets a little over-protective sometimes…just because of some crap that happened last year.”

“Oh did you have a relationship go wrong or something?”

“Well, lets see…a friendship and what I thought was a relationship….it’s really fucked up I don’t like to talk much about it.”

I nod, I’m not going to push this. It’s the most I’ve been able to talk to her.  “Well Cade seems like an awesome friend to have.”

She smiles, “He is…he’s like the brother I never had, I only have a sister and she’s different.”

I nod, “Yeah Russ is more like my brother than a cousin, I have two sisters and I’m the baby so….they pretty much tried to ruin me.”

She la
ughs, “Oh well, I’m the oldest.  My sister Anna is the total opposite of me; she’s beautiful, blond, rocking body, dresses in cardigans and pearls.  I’m into my jeans, sports and converse tennis shoes.”

Damn she really doesn’t realize how beautiful she is or how rocking her body is for that matter and her raven hair…jeez…I gotta stop thinking about all of this.
“So what sports are you into?”

“Well in high school I did the track/cross country thing and volleyball.  I also always worked out with Cade, most of the time doing the same training he did for football.  Which I really have to get back into he was right, I’ve let myself go the past month.”

I laugh, “I wouldn’t go that far, but if you want to work out with us or whatever just let me know, I’m cool with it.  Cade seems like he has your training under control.”  I shake my head, “I don’t know many girls that would’ve ran the rocks like you did today.  I think most of the team was impressed…not that they can say that in front of Cade.”

She looks up, “Why can’t they say anything like that in front of Cade?  Is he really that bad about me?  He’s such a dick sometimes, but he just tries to keep me from dealing with bull shit.”

My cell starts ringing with
Crazy Bitch
that I have assigned to Jules, “Ugh.”

She laughs, “What?  Oh don’t tell me is that the old possessive girlfriend?”

I nod, “The very same one.”

She grabs my phone, “Do you mind?”

I laugh and shake my head, “No.”

She answers the phone, “Hello…Umm
well he’s kinda busy…yeah well too bad…this is Gabby who is this?...oh ha ha.”

She hangs up I laugh because I could hear Jules being a total bitch.  “That shit was too funny, what did she say?”

She laughs, “Okay first off you are right about the bitch part.  When I answered I think she was in shock that a girl was answering your phone which is what I was going for.  She’s like let me talk to Linc and I said you were busy…making it sound as bad as possible…she’s like well I really need to talk to him now….then she was like who the fuck is this and then you heard the rest, except when she said her name I laughed like I’ve been laughing about her for months.”

I burst out laughing, “That was freaking awesome. Thanks Gabby.”

She looks up, “So she cheated on you huh?”

I look up at her, “How did you know that?”

“I could tell by her voice and the fact that you said she was possessive.  Normally it’s a trait of bitches that cheat.”

“Yeah, with most of my teammates with the exception of Russ…I tried to forget and forgive too many times.  I also
didn’t exactly find out about how many times either.”

She nods, “Huh what a bitch…I mean you seem like an awesome guy…why would she?  I guess bitches like her don’t think they have to have a reason.”

She looks back at the movie just in time to see “break the wrist and walk away.”

She burst out laughing, “I love that part.”

She looks back at me, “So was football the only sport you played in high school?  Were you like Uncle Rico?”

I laugh,
“Oh Yeah that’s me…Yeah pretty much just concentrated on football, I played baseball earlier, but football pretty much dominated.”

She nods, “Well from what I saw today you seem to have
taken all of that pretty seriously, you seemed determined.”

“How did you see that
, you were running the rocks?”

“I can do two things at once…I used to do it all the time when I would watch Cade.  Hey do you mind if I stretch me legs out on the couch, they are killing me from today?”

I laugh, “No why do you want me to move?”

She laughs, “No, but feet freak some people out.  Like Cade.”

I laugh, “What?  Feet freak him out.”