March 31, 2020 -Miami, Florida
Cara POV

Kean CM
Your number?... I wasn't expecting that

Me
Yeah... you don't have to call me though. Then I wouldn't have to give it to you.

Kean CM
No, no I still want to call you. I guess I just don't really understand why you have to give me your number to do so?

Me
Because snap calls suck... how do you not know that? No one calls anyone on snap that's weird.

Kean CM
Well I don't normally ask girls or... anyone really if I can call them on snap so... I wouldn't know.

Me
Sure...
Anyway here's my number. 

I quickly texted him my number and waited for him to call me. I wasn't expecting this at all. I'm not used to guys just randomly wanting to talk to me. Guys don't usually try to hold regular conversation with me for longer than 5 minutes because sooner or later they get impatient and start asking for nudes or... other things.

After a couple minutes I get the call.

Call from Unknown

I answer the call and save Keanu's number to my phone.

"Hey babygirl... you there? I really hope you didn't give me the wrong number."

His voice was... deeper... than I imagined.

I put him on speaker phone and giggled.

"Even on a call you still insist on calling me babygirl? I already told you what I thought of that so called nickname of yours."

"Ahh yes, this is definitely the right number. Well I already told you that you're wrong about that nickname. I really don't understand why you think so low of me, you don't even know me."

"Well I might not know you, but I've heard enough to know how you operate."

"How I operate? Please enlighten me on what you've heard. I want to know what awful things they've been feeding about me to my babygirl."

I rolled my eyes. He really doesn't let up, does he?

"Oh the usual, just that you're a man whore and you've slept with many a woman. You go around using and manipulating girls for your own amusement and pleasure and feel little to no remorse in the end. Well... some of that I might've added in there myself but eh."

"Wow... that couldn't be further from the truth. I'm honestly sorta offended. Is that honestly what people think of me?"

His voice sounded so vulnerable. It was weird. I wasn't expecting that. I wasn't expecting a lot of the things Keanu has done today, this whole thing is just confusing me.

"Is this some kind of joke? Or a ploy to get me to feel bad for you? It's not going to work you know."

"It's not a ploy or anything. I'm not trying to trick you. I'm just... whatever, what's the point, you won't believe me."

"No actually... I want to hear this."

He might be playing me or trying to trick me but I feel too bad to hold a grudge against a person that I don't even know. Who knows if those rumors are true and I feel awful for even letting them dictate what I think of a him. Ugh I'm a terrible person aren't I?

"Oh now all of a sudden you care about what I have to say? What happened to you thinking I'm a total sleazeball who doesn't care about women's feelings?"

Yep, terrible person.

"I'm... really sorry Kean. I shouldn't have judged you prematurely. I seriously want to hear what you have to say."

He didn't say anything for a while. I watched the numbers on the screen tick second by second. I counted exactly 1 minute and 38 seconds of silence before he said anything.

"You wanna know something about me?"

"Sure..."

"I'm a virgin."

No way... Keanu Carmichael? A virgin? How? That makes... zero sense.

"But..."

"Yeah... I know. I guess I'll explain." He sighed before continuing. "Most of the time when girls offer sex I turn them down. I never explain why I just don't accept them and ignore any other attempts they make. If they're bold enough they go around telling people that we did have sex and I don't comment on it because honestly I'd feel bad embarrassing them like that. That's another thing people get wrong about me. I'm not a bad person. It just sucks that people think that. It never really affected me before, but hearing you say that actually made me feel pretty bad. I guess want you to think highly of me. You seem... interesting. Different, I guess."

"Wow. I'm so sorry that I just assumed that of you. I'm sorry that I believed all those rumors. I feel so awful oh my god." I buried my face in my hands and groaned.

"Hey... it's okay. I... I forgive you. It makes sense that you would believe them. It's just how people are. I don't hold any grudges against you."

"Thanks... I really appreciate it actually."

"The only person who knows about that is Ace. I..." He lets out a little laugh. "I can't believe I just told you all that."

"Don't worry I won't tell anyone. I- I wouldn't do that."

"What about you? Virgin or not?"

"Virgin. I don't have any rumors around me or a reputation to uphold, but I realized early on that I wanted my first time to be special. There have always been a ridiculous amount of guys offering all sorts of things. But what's the point? I barely know them, why would I have sex with them?"

He laughed at my little rant.

"Wow... so you pour your heart out to me and I sympathize but when I do it I get a laugh?" I scoffed, half joking half not. "That hurts."

"I wasn't laughing at your... misfortune? If that's even what you would call it." He let out another brief chuckle, "I'm laughing at how similar we are. It's funny really, how many similarities we have."

"Similarities? How, may I ask, are we so similar?"

"We both have people throw themselves at us. We both dodge them like nobody's business. We're both virgins. And... we both judged each other prematurely."

"What do you mean? When did you judge me?"

"When we first starting talking, just earlier today, weird right? That whole thing about you pretending to resist my charm to make me like you? Yeah, I wasn't entirely joking about that. I thought you were just trying to change me. I thought you were trying to recreate something out of a romance story. Especially when you said you didn't want to see my face but..."

He trailed off without finishing his sentence. I hate it when people do that, just finish the goddamn sentence and don't leave me hanging.

"But? But what man? Don't leave me hanging here."

He let out yet another chuckle. "Impatient are we? But you seem different. When I kept on dropping not-so-subtle hints about the fact that I wasn't actually a player, you didn't jump on the opportunity to get to know me better or find out more things about me. You just... kept going with the conversation. I like that. But you still hate me don't you?"

I smiled. He couldn't see it but I did. Maybe we could be friends. Lucy is going to be disappointed when she hears that, but I still don't have any interest in dating him. He does seem friend worthy though.

"Thanks... you seem uhm... better than I originally thought you were. Kinda. So... we could uh be... friends? I guess. Or whatever."

He starting laughing. Hard. "Was tha- that your way of asking me to be your friend? You sounded like you were disgusted by me."

I rolled my eyes. "Ugh. I could redact my friendship you know? We could just not be friends."

"No no!" He quickly tried to stifle his laughter. Unsuccessfully, mind you, but he was trying. "Yeah! Let's be friends."

"Cool..." I've never really had friends that I talk to out of school besides Lucy. I mean every now and then I'll have a conversation with someone, but something tells me Keanu isn't one of those type of friends. This should be entertaining to say the least.

"Hey, so now that we're... friends," He unnecessarily lengthened the word friends and I just know it was to annoy me. "Can I ask you a question?"

"Sure Keanu, you can ask me a question."

"Why..." He cleared his throat. It sounded like he was trying to find the right way to phrase it. "Do you have a reason... for not, you know. Having sex?"

"Welp. You're just jumping right into it aren't you?"

"I did say I wanted to have a conversation, didn't I?"

"Right, well..."

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A/N

Hey Guys! 

Ooh we're getting into our first deep convo! The next chapter will have opinions. Some of them are my opinions and some aren't. Please take into account that there are a lot of sort of kind of controversial things in this book. I started off light with stuff about virginity. Most people can agree to disagree on that one, but there are some conversations about racism. Just know that my views are my views and if you really don't like it you don't have to read this book (No I will not be justifying racism even in the slightest if that's what you were thinking)

Segway to if you did like this chapter you should comment and vote on this story :) I have big plans for this one guys! I also made the outline for the next to stories in the trilogy today! :)

Later babes <3~

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