Notes:

Additional Cast:

Booboo Stewart as Grant Simmons

Marco James as Dylan Fletcher

Nicole Munoz  as Sonia 

Joseph's POV

Here I am again! At my favourite bar, which is full of people screaming, drinking and going crazy, like it's the last day of the world. Who can blame them? The college basketball team won the first game of the season! That was a blast and the best way to start. I hope the team keeps the heat this high, as we need to get back in being champions. Our college has a history after all.

Nathan pulled off an amazing game and, truth be told is a hell of a playmaker. His technique is remarkable, considering he's still 18. I was commenting the whole game with Grant, from the bleachers, since he's as much obsessed as I am.

"Man this place is going nuts!" Grant shouts in my ear, so I can listen to him beyond the noise, as we are walking through the crowded people.

"I know! People want to celebrate our first victory and what better place than a bar with non banned alcohol?" I shout as well, still pushing people right and left and Grant nods enthusiastically, moving his head to the rhythm of the music.

"Too bad Matt is missing this!" Grant remarks, showing the whole bar with his index.

"He prefered to go on a date with his new girlfriend."

"I still can't believe that shy Matt bangs someone and on a steady basis!" Grant exclaims,making me laugh. "But that's not a reason for him to ditch us."

"Well he was never that interested in sports, but he could come to the party."

"With his girlfriend." Grant eye rolls.

"Girlfriends are like that. They don't leave their boyfriends out of their sight." I comment smirking.

"Fortunately we don't have a problem with that." Grant pats me on the back.

"And we will never have. Dude I am not and I will never be the relationship type of guy. If you ever see me effusing over a chick in any other way than the sexual part, call 911 to snap me out of it." I declare like a politician does during a speech, while Grant is nodding enthusiastically.

"Don't worry man! I prevent it from happening to you!"

Then I see him waving to a group of guys, who I've seen them around, but I don't know them personally.

"Joss I am going to greet these friends over there!" Grant informs me, showing me to their direction.

"Don't mind!" I say to him and right away I spot Nathan.

He's surrounded by his teammates, who are congratulating him and shouting cries, while hugging and shaking him. He seems really energetic, though he was running his ass off on the court a while ago.

"Hey man! Terrific game tonight! You kicked their motherfucking asses!" I greet him, by giving a high five and he immediately reacts to it.

"Something like that!" He says cheerfully. "We kicked off the season in a good way, didn't we?"

"Yeah dude! It was incredible! You rocked out there!"

"I wasn't expecting us to win the way we did! This team is a pain in the ass and coach was giving us absolute hell till our first game! Maybe that helped after all." He remarks as one of his teammates fist bumps him.

"At first you hate the coach, but then you appreciate him, right?"

"Yes, his methods seem to work!" He tells me smirking. "Hey, Dylan, bring us two shots, me and my friend Joseph need to celebrate this properly!" He raises his hand up and Dylan nods approaching the bar. "Oh, ladies ladies!" He grabs Robin by the arm and she stops with her company. She is with Alice. "Dylan, make them four!" Nathan shouts back at him.

"Hey guys! Yes please free shots!" Robin approaches me first. "Hey handsome." and then Nathan. "Hey, star of the evening. My damn throat hurts from all the cheering! Good job." She hugs him looking proud. "Since you are buying I need tequila!" She winks at me.

"Easy Ro! Tequila makes you go wild! Not that I mind though!" I wink back at her, remembering a last year's party. All the people were drunk, included me and Robin and I did a tequila body shot off Robin's belly. Crazy times!

Then I turn my head to Alice, while Nathan is thanking Robin. She's wearing black jeans with a checkered red and white shirt on top of a white blouse. Many necklaces are hanging from her neck and her hair is straight. I like her casual style and she looks very pretty.

"Hello Alice!" I smirk at her.

"Hey Joseph! Long time no see!" she greets with a grin and I understand the sarcasm under her sentence,since the last time I saw her was this morning, under a desk at Mr. Emerton's office. "Hey Nathan!" she turns her head to him. "Congrats! You were very good!" she forces a smile. Her posture is a bit restrained towards Nathan.

"Thank you, Alice!" He beams at her. "Woah, there you go, guys!" He takes the shots and thanks Dylan with a nod.

"To the best playmaker and to the championship!" I toast and the 4 of us clink our glasses, before we drink.

"Well, thank you man! We can only hope for the season to end as awesome as it's starting!" Nathan chuckles. He is really happy for the team's win and why shouldn't he really. "Dylan, bring us another round!" He shouts back at Dylan who gives him an eyeroll, but goes by the bar again.

"Alice where's your roomie, Vanessa? She's not into basketball?" I ask, since I expected her to be with Ness and not with Robin. Actually I didn't know Alice knew Ro, but Robin being her sociable self she knows many people.

"Vanessa aka Adams? You're roommates with her?" Nathan raises his eyebrows surprised.

"Yeah! We're roomies and good friends, even though we don't know each other for a very long time. But Vanessa is a lovely person and it's impossible not to fall under her charm." She says to Nathan with a simper.

"No argues on that!"I chime in.Vanessa is a true sweetheart.

"Don't be a dick, Nate!" Ro punches his shoulder, semi playfully, semi hard.

"I am not a dick!" Nathan checks the spot where Ro punched him. "I kind of invited her to come to the game the other day, Ro, don't you remember?"

"Yeah, sorry, I remember. Tell you what, you will buy me another tequila, and I will pretend this never happened." She says pointing the bar.

"I guess she had more interesting things to do." Nathan shrugs, but stares at Alice kind of looking for an answer.

"Like you said! She had more interesting things to do! Things that I couldn't be present for!" Alice smirks mischievously.

"Whatever..." Nathan murmurs indifferently, something that makes Alice give him an irritating glare and then he takes the second round of shots from Dylan. "Thanks man and bring us another round! And one for yourself as well, we are going to get drunk tonight, dude!" He pats Dylan's head.

"I am doing this only because you are a hell of a playmaker! And we need to get fucking drunk!" Dylan chuckles and goes by the bar for the third time.

After that, Ro gets next to me, with her glass already empty.That was fast! She rests her hand on my shoulder and puts the glass down.

"Soo..um...speaking of Vanessa....um...where..where is Sophie?" She asks looking at the empty glass.

"Are you kidding me? Sophie at a basketball game and then at a bar? Being crowded by drunk sweaty people?" I laugh at her question. "Only if we were in an alternative universe and still, I don't think that it would be even possible." She nods her head agreeing with that.

"Yeahh..I guess this is not her scene...She is different. She is....she is cool." She says avoiding eye contact. When she spots Dylan, though, she jolts up. "Hey Dylan, I need whiskey shots! 3 ASAP." She yells and leaves my side.

"You heard the lady!" Nathan tells him and raises his hands up in defence. "Bottoms up, guys!"

We clink again and we drink them at once. After many toasts and many shots, the atmosphere becomes even better and happier. Of course I am not drunk, since I can handle alcohol and I see Nathan is pretty fine too. He resists to it quite well, considering he's an athlete. Then my eyes fall on Alice. She doesn't seem drunk to me. She's just happier than usual. I am impressed how she copes with alcohol. On the other side though, Robin is hella buzzed. She is dancing on her own most of the time, but then sometimes she gets really quiet and sad looking. Then she drinks some more. I guess Robin must have drunk way more than us!

"Who's that now?" Nathan shakes me with his shoulder nodding towards a girl with long dark brown hair in leather jacket across the bar, sipping on her drink. She is thin but curvy and Ι can see a nice pair of boobs. I bet her ass is even better. Wait, she is looking at us!

"I don't know her! She's looking fucking good!" I say to Nathan in a collusive way, but I feel Alice's glare piercing me. Then Ro approaches us, dancing till the world ends.

"Hey my dudes! Isn't this awesome? I am having so much fun! Hey barman, another whisky shot!" She raises her hand.

"Is Ro always wild like that?" Alice asks me.

"I think tonight she is going a bit wilder than usual, but she knows how to have fun!Kick it girl!" I shout at Robin.

"Hell yeah, bitches! Keep the shots coming!" She shouts again and the whole bar shouts along with her too.

"Is that chick checking on us? 'Cause I have to totally agree with you, she is indeed looking fucking good." Nathan chortles and rests his elbow on my shoulder.

She's looking towards us and she's biting her lip.

"Dude she's so into us! She just can't resist!" I say to him with a wide smirk.

"Guys you're so lame and I wish the music was louder, so I couldn't listen to you!" Alice chimes in and I give her an irritated look.

"You sure, man?" Nathan frowns and ignores Alice. "Well, she must be kind of shy, because she is piercing us with her eyes but she hasn't moved a step.Maybe we should go over. Dylan! Another round!"He raises his hand to call for him for the millionth time tonight.

I feel Ro's hand on my shoulder. "What are you guys staring at?" She asks, fixing her hair a bit.

"The hot chick over there! She's looking towards us, but we can't decide on who. I know it's Nathan's night, but I believe the girl wants some of this." I brag, pointing with my thumbs at me. I observe Alice eyerolling.

"Jesus Christ Joseph! You're not every girl's darkest desire!" she remarks annoyingly.

"I think I am! Look at her! She's eating me with her eyes!"

Ro chuckles next to me. "Hey hot stuff, answer one thing for me will ya?" I nod, so she continues. "How is my lipstick, do I look hot?" She asks fixing her clothes.

"Hot as fire!" I answer confused. Did Robin spot someone she likes?

"Great, now if you'll excuse me I have to head over there to the girl you think is eating you with her eyes....we have been eyefucking all night. Bye guys see ya! Alice watch out for these guys, see ya, have fun!" she winks at us and takes off.

Me and Nathan freeze on our spot jaw dropped, while Alice has burst out laughing.

"I wouldn't see that coming even in my wildest dreams! This is so hilarious!" She keeps on laughing and I think she's getting out of breath. Her face has become red. "Well done master of love!" she claps with her hands. "I think we should take your diploma and what did you say to me the last time? You can psychoanalyze women? Knowing what they want? You didn't even know who this girl was looking at! I think you suck at it!" she remarks and she keeps on laughing. She has doubled up with laughter.

Oh God! She is never going to stop! I won't hear the end of it!

"Nathan please tell her to shut up!"

"I will defend my dear friend Joseph here and say that after a couple of shots, your judgement can't be that clear!" Nathan shrugs.

"Thanks man! I appreciate it!" I say to him, while Alice is moving her head disapprovingly and then wiping her laughter tears of her face.

"Joseph I owe you! I had quite some time to laugh that hard!" she states and I utterly ignore her.

"Well, let's hope my judgement doesn't suck as yours, buddy!" Nathan pats me on the shoulder. "I am going over that beauty." He points with his head to a blonde in a ponytail with tight jean shorts and a black crop top. "You two have fun!" He winks at me and Alice and goes straight to that chick.

Robin's POV

We spent our time dancing real close amongst the other's, and I have to admit that the way she is dancing in front of me, turns me on. With a sensual song blasting through the speakers, she comes closer to me, brings her hands around my neck and sways her hips seductively. I swallow hard because her movements hypnotise me and due to the alcohol, I am on cloud nine right now. Our bodies flush together as she starts stroking my back. Her face is inches apart from mine and my eyes land oh her full lips..fuck, I want to bite them so hard..fuck...

She smirks and boldly,she brushes her lips against mine, denying me a kiss..that's so hot...I try to kiss her, but she moves away, licking her lips and I watch the scene feeling my body burn. I grab her hips and spin her around so that her back is pressed against my front, sending shivers all over me and her, as I notice. I rest my head on her shoulder,, licking the spot below her ear and her head falls back..good, I want to make her go crazy.

She then grabs my hands and puts them on her exposed stomach and I bite my lip feeling her muscles clench. I rack my right hand over it, playing with the hem of the top, while my tongue traces her neck, and then as I bring my mouth on her ear again, I bite her earlobe whispering to her "I want you".

She stops moving her hips and turns around to face me again, that's when I notice that her pupils are dilated, which means she wants this as much as I do. She cups my cheeks and brings me so close to the edge, when her tongue licks my lips and her hand travels on the small of my back, and I stay there stunned while she grins, catching my frozen state.

"Follow me" she says and grabs my hand leading us out of the club. The cold air that hits me, brings me back to sanity, but my body is still burning with need. She takes me to an ally a few meters away and drags me to the far end of it, where it's darker that the rest, which means there's is no way anyone can see us. Or hear us...good...I intend to make the most of this. Before I say anything though, she pins me to the wall with force and my stomach clenches along with another region..oh god that was so damn hot!

She instantly brings her knee between my thighs and puts pressure to my groin, sending jolts of pleasure through my body and making me moan loudly. My hips move involuntarily at that and I start grinding needily, aching for release. I try to control my moaning and the only way I know, is to just take her face and kiss her hungrily but since I want to make her scream as much as possible, I grab her ass with force, and her back arches.

"You are so hot....god...I want you." She breaths, pushing me harder against the wall and I wince in pain. Holy shit, she is driving me crazy! She kisses me again slipping her tongue inside my mouth and my eyes roll back, my ears buzz and I need her to touch me desperately.

She moves to my neck licking the way from my jaw, sucks on my pulse point and I know it will bruise, but I don't give a damn about it right now, immersed in pleasure. She can do whatever she wants for all I care...at some point I feel her hands on my stomach and a tag on my top. Her hands move underneath it and her nails rake across my skin, causing my stomach muscles to clench, and in my intoxicated state I really feel like I am floating on air, like I am on a dream, here with her.

Her other hand though, plays with the waistband of my jeans, letting me know her intentions, rather boldly, but I love it. I close my eyes trying to feel everything and the intensity if it all makes me dizzy...I feel high..so fucking high...I get lost in my thoughts thinking of all the things I want to do to her, but the moment she moves away from me, my eyes open and I miss the heat her knee was causing me.

I look at her confused but I don't get to complain....no...she winks seductively and before I do anything she drops to her knees. Fuck!! My eyes widen at this, my hands instantly go to her hair and grab it and I close my eyes again ready for her next move. My mind goes to autopilot and my heart beats out of charts as I let myself get lost to the burning desire.

My hands thread around the brown locks that make my heart swell. I think of her beautiful big eyes that can make me lose my words and then my mind goes to her plump lips and their perfect shape..Fuck, she is so beautiful, it hurts.I can't control myself right now and I don't want to keep my moans quiet anymore.

"Oh fuck..please..I need you." I hear myself say, out of breath and the buttons of my jeans open and then the zip. She brings her mouth to my stomach again, teasing me, licking around my belly button and I go crazy. I am almost there and she hasn't even touched me yet! I can't take it anymore...I try to push her head lower to make it clear that my stomach is not where I want her and she complies, leaving my stomach and making her way downwards..and then, finally she brings her hand on my underwear trying to push them down.

"Please...I want you..please Sophie."..Fuck..

suddenly, all movements stop and the only thing that can be heard is my heavy breathing. What happened?

"Sonia." ...........Umm...what?

I open my eyes and look at her confused. "What?" I ask her and she gets up.

"My name is Sonia, not Sophie." I look at her and for seconds I am still confused, but then I freeze when it clicks. Oh no..noo..no...

"Um.....I am not good with names, I am sorry." I tell her still in shock. What the fuck did just happen?

"That's ok, babe, now you know for sure what name to scream." she winks and goes on her knees again.

"No, no wait....I have to go... I have an early call tomorrow...sorry." I say trying to zip my jeans and push her away. She gets up pouting kissing my neck to convince me to carry on but I get way from her. "Sorry I really need to go...here give me your number ok?" she smirks but nods, so I take my phone from back pocket and hand it to her. Once she is done I murmur a faint 'bye' and leave her in the alley.

I took a taxi and 15 minutes later I am in my room. I take my clothes off and my make up and fall in bed groaning. Tomorrow I will deal with this. Now I need to sleep it off.

Joseph's POV

"So it's just you and me now!" I point out, after guys leaving us. Nathan is talking or better flirting with a chick and Ro is dirty dancing with the hot chick, that I thought she was into me and Nathan. Not one of my brightest moments, but who cares. Life goes on.

"I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing." She grins. She really has a beautiful smile, even when she makes sarcastic comments.

"I thought we have updated our relationship status after today's events." I remark, beaming at her and making her chuckle.

"That was a hell of an update."Thanks again for what you did." She gives me a caring look and a coy smile.

"Two thank yous in one day.You will spoil me at the end with such gratitude and you'll catch me out of guard, once you'll come completely Lara Croft at me." I tease her looking at her playfully.

Truth be told I don't mind Alice coming at me in a Lara Croft outfit. That will be really hot,except if she brings her dual pistols and start shooting me.There is no chance to get off that, but still the fantasy is arousing.

"Thank you for the Lara Croft compliment and that's the last one I will say." She winks at me. "At least let me buy you a drink."

"Do you want to get me drunk?"I smirk and she eye rolls.

"Don't worry. I give you my word I will be a good girl and I won't touch you or spoil your virtue."She says sarcastically in her sweetest voice and plays a bit with her eyelashes.

"I think I can trust you since you gave me your word, but I will still keep my eyes open for any suspicious moves." I warn her with a smirk and she laughs.

We make our way through the crowd to reach the bar and fortunately two people leaving, before we take their seats. That's luck! We both sit and I shout at Claire, the barwoman whom I know pretty well since I was a freshman and I introduced her to Nathan the first time we met. Nathan told me she took a good care of him, if I knew what he meant and of course I caught the subtext.

"Hey Claire!" I see Alice giving me a weird look with the corner of my eye, but she doesn't speak.

"Hey Joss! How are you?" Claire greets me with a smile.

She is wearing black leather tights with a white top and many necklaces hanging from her neck.Classic Claire's style.

"Great! Celebrating the first victory! You?"

"Fucking tired! I haven't rest for a second, since you all came here to party! But I shouldn't complain! Drunk people leave generous tips!"She winks at me. "What can I get you?"

"What do you want?" I turn my head to ask Alice.

"A Corona!" she replies with a smile.

"Make them 2" I point to Claire my two fingers.

"Right away!" She answers, but in the same time she scans Alice from head to toe and I discreet that Alice does the same to Claire as well.

Claire must have thought that Alice is my 'tonight' girl and she was eying her, as she always has funny and sarcastic comments to say about my one night stands.

On the other hand I am sure Alice is lecturing me inside her head, but I guess she tries not to blurt anything out, because we have called it a truce, at least for tonight.

"I guess you hang out very often here."

"Yes! It's the only bar near campus, that serves alcohol to the underage and the quality doesn't suck that much."I answer really casually.

"You're still an underage? I thought you were older." She comments surprised.

"Really? Why?"

"Not because of you behaviour obviously." I am sure she couldn't hold that back. It's not Alice if she doesn't shoot something at me, no matter the circumstances.

"You couldn't resist, could you? You would have choked." I point out, chuckling and she does the same as well, putting some hair behind her ear.

"Old habits are bad to forget!"she beams at me.

"For your information I am 20 years old and I'll be 21 on 6th August!"

"That's why your urges increase during the summer and you can't hold yourself." she quips playfully and I chuckle tucking my hair. "Just like Nathan is doing right now!" she points her eyes behind me and I turn around to see Nathan making out with the girl he was flirting with earlier. "Just get some air already." she exclaims narrowing her eyes on them.

"What's your problem? It's not an elevator here." I remark raising my eyebrow and she looks down on me.

"Of course womanizers support each other!"she gives me an irritating glare,as I smirk playfully. "Anyway this is a public place after all. Maybe it's because I am mad at him, by the way he's treating Vanessa." she huffs looking again at him. "It's getting on my nerves that she doesn't let me give him a piece of my mind."

"I guess, because sweet caring Vanessa doesn't want him in the emergency room." I smirk and she gives me a guilty look.

"I only want to talk to him..."she says having her innocent face on and I give her a meaningful look "Ok and maybe a couple of punches, but nothing serious! He could play the next day!" she high pitches and I laugh.

"With crutches!" I exclaim and she laughs as well. "Anyway I don't know what's going on between them. They had a dispute at the parking lot the other day and Ness was chasing him like crazy. She's so fragile and delicate, that I couldn't imagine she was capable of shouting that much to a person! I was impressed!" I say remembering that day.

"It's about a project they have and Nathan can't stick his ass to do it. The truth is he didn't strike me like an asshole, when I first met him." Alice tells me,while she's peaking at Nathan, who has cornered the chick.

"I think he will come around at the end. He's not a bad guy! I pity Vanessa though... I remember her since High School, how nice she was with everybody. She's a really kind person!"

"Yeah she is..."Alice nods and then her eyes narrow. "Wait! Did you two...???"she high pitches piercing me with her eyes.

"What? Noooo! I could never do something with such a sensitive person as Vanessa. She has the looks of course, but still... she's like a teddy bear!" I exclaim. "Maybe you think I am a man-whore, but I am aware in which field I am allowed to play."

"That's really reassuring!"

"Here you are guys! So sorry it took me so long!"Claire chimes in, putting the beers on the bar in front of us. "It's so wild in here, that we run out of Coronas and I had to get them from the stockroom!"Claire's face is red from working and she's panting.

"No excuses! I was waiting for my order too long! I want to speak to the manager immediately!" I raise my voice trying to look like I am a furious customer, while moving my hand 'angrily' in front of her.

"Fuck you Joss!" She answers with a smirk,making me chortle. "3$ each!"

Alice takes out her purse and gives the money to Claire, who looks a bit puzzled.

"Letting the lady pay? I didn't see that coming from you Joss! Such a shame!" she exclaims, giving me an examining look.

"He's completely dry, so I am doing him charity." Alice barges in with a smirk on her face. Of course she can't hold herself, from teasing me. It's her second nature, but the truth is I like that she's so easy going around people.

"Poor Joss.Your pocket money is going to be late?" Claire says making a fake frowning face. She and I are good friends, to be more specific good friends with benefits and as it's expected she couldn't leave the opportunity to tease me too.

"Shut up Claire!" I say, trying to sound annoyed. "The lady here had her ass saved today, by the Computer Master aka me, so buying me a beer is the least she could do."

"Exaggerating much?" Alice chimes in.

"On the contrary I am being modest!" I smirk to her giving her a playful look.

"You should really reconsider your modesty standards." She quips, with a faint smile and I eye roll.

"I officially like you!" Claire announces and I move my head in disapproval. "As you've heard I am Claire. My uncle runs this bar and I am the waitress, who obviously brings the people." She winks.

"I am Alice! Nice to meet you!"

"Nice to meet you too.Sorry, I gotta run now."Claire announces, once she sees some people waving at her to order. "Joss you should bring her again." she tells me before she leaves and I am like 'Seriously?'. From all the girls she has seen it's Alice the one she liked?

"She looked pretty cool!" Alice admits with an approving grimace. "I can see why you're coming to this place."

"Claire is pretty awesome and a really good friend." I say in a casual voice and then I observe Alice giving me an intense meaningful look. "Ok sometimes we passed the friendly status..." I tell in an indifferent way "But it was only to have some fun and that's it. Other than that we are just friends."

"At least she was aware where she was getting herself into."she says still looking at Claire with an examining look. "Anyway tonight I am coming in peace, so let's drink to that." She raises her bottle.

"I totally agree." I announce, before we clink our bottles and take a sip. "So no insults, no calling me names, no snapping at me, no deathly glares..." I count with my fingers.

"Nothing, nada, rien, nanimo." She says nothing in many languages moving her head in a negative way.

"I will miss it, but I think I'll survive." I joke and I take another sip, as she's laughing. "Let me guess you're studying something that has to do with languages such as Translation" I make an attempt to have a normal conversation with her, even if I know that we have surpassed those levels. But maybe this will be good for a change.

"I am thinking as my major Linguistics and minor Translation, mr. Computer Science student." She answers, adding a smirk at the end

"How many do you speak?"

"4!"

"Too mediocre! I speak 8!" I tell her with a wide smile and she looks at me astonished.

"Stop fooling around!"

"I don't! Be amazed... Java, C++, Python..."

"Those are programming languages. You can't communicate with those." She argues with a smile. She is really enjoying it as am I.

"Of course you can."

"So you bed women by saying 001011..."She starts saying zeros and ones randomly, which is the computer language. "I am sure only robots would find you attractive." She teases with no regrets, but I really enjoy that.

"Well if I was living in the Star Wars universe, I would be irresistable."

"Watch out Han Solo! R2D2 might fall for you!" She continues mocking me and I burst out laughing. Alice has a positive trait after all. She's a Star Wars fan.

"So how do you know that many languages and especially japanese?" I ask, because it's really intriguing. She is indeed smart to know that many languages, not that I wasn't sure of that, by the way and the speed she was answering me back.

"Don't tell me you read my paper?" She asks surprised.

"I didn't have the time as you remember, but as I was looking for the culprit I took a quick glance. Japanese writing systems. You were trying to impress your prof with such a well written paper and such a difficult subject?" I lean closer to her and she takes one sip of her beer, before she answers.

"I really like mr. Emerton as a prof despite the fact that.."

"...he had sex next to us." I complete with a smirk her sentence and her mouth edges rise a bit.

"He is annoyingly perfectionist." she says instead looking askance at me. "But you're right! I don't think I will be ever able to look at him in the eyes or attending his next lecture without having disgusting images crossing my head." She makes a horrified grimace and I have to admit I like it when she's making expressions with her face.

"Remember that you were lying next to me and the bad memories will be gone." I smirk and I am waiting for the quip to come. Just give it already.

"I think it will only get worse and I will need a psychologist at the end." She quips and I laugh. "So to answer to your previous question I speak many languages, because I used to live in Europe and mainly in London."

My eyes widen from the surprise. That's something you don't hear very often. She was living in Europe! That is terrific!

"No british accent though!" I observe, because if she hadn't told me I would have never imagined she had lived in London.

"I was raised by americans parents, so I was listening to US english, but I can make you a demonstration of my perfect british." Her eyes locks on mine and she has a smirk on her face.

That will be hot as fuck, but there is no way to show her that.

"Cocky much Alice? You learnt a thing or two by my side."

"I've got confidence on my abilities, but there is still a lot of way to go to reach your cockiness levels." she raises an eyebrow still looking me intensively.

"I've set the bar really high! It's not an easy goal, but you can always try!" I flash a wide smile to her and I am not sure if I am pushing it too far. Damn! Why I can't read her expressions, like I do with all the other girls?

"I think it's an impossible goal, but I have to admit you're not the completely arrogant asshole, I thought you were." She says with a low voice and soft eyes. "You are arrogant, but you are not an asshole."

I can't believe she tried to say something nice about me. Well it was not easy for her to admit that, but she really did in her own unique bizarre way. I don't mind it though.

"You really suck at making compliments you know?" I smirk and she chuckles a bit. "Well I have to admit that you are not such a pain in the ass. You're still a bigmouth though, but I think I can bear it." I beam and she gives me a genuinely smile.

We just stand there looking each other, both smiling. She really has a beautiful smile and penetrating eyes. I am captivated by them.

"Joooooss! Sorry I ditched you for that long!" a familiar voice echoes in my head. It's Grant! What the hell does he want?

Alice looks at Grant with an astonished face, since he popped up out of nowhere.

"Sorry for intruding like that, but we were saying with the guys over there to go to a new bar downtown. They say it's pretty awesome!" Grant says enthusiastically and I have to find a way to turn him down, since I am having a good time here. I am having a good time with Alice. I can't believe this is happening. I can't believe this could have happened at all.

Before I utter a word Grant speaks again."Dude you have to come! Max has set the field." Then he puts his hand in front of his mouth and speaks in a low voice. "If you know what I mean."

God! What the fuck is he saying? Alice understood pretty well what he was talking about, as her cheerful mood darkened in a flash of a second.

"So Joseph, I will let you two catch up freely, without me eavesdropping and without your friend speaking in a ridiculously collusive way." Alice tries to maintain her voice calm, but I discrete the annoyance.

Grant looks at her really confused and I try to find a way to solve this misunderstanding.

Alice stands up and I grab her hand with force, without letting her go.

"Alice where are you going?"

"To the dorms. It's pretty late actually and Vanessa will be back by now. I promised her I go back to watch the new episode of The Flash." she answers with a sharp voice.

I don't buy this Vanessa shit!

"I thought we were having a truce celebration tonight." I observe trying to calm her down and make her stay.

"Yeah, but your friend needs you desperately" she says giving a cold glance to Grant, which scared the shit out of him "So, I don't want to be in the way."

"Don't worry about Grant! I even don't worry about him." I say with a casual voice and Grant gives me an offended look.

"As I said it's better to go!"

"How are you going back? Robin must have been cornered with the chick, she was dirty dancing." My eye caught Robin getting the term of dirty dancing to a whole new level with the chick and then I saw them leaving, before devouring each other in the middle of the bar.

"I will drive." She flashes me her car keys. How will she drive after all those shots we had?

"How? Are you sober yet?"

"I didn't drink all the shots! Not to mention time has passed, so I am in position to drive!"she explains to me. "Have fun Joseph." She huffs and then turns around and leaves the bar.

Me on the other side turn to look at Grant, who thankfully didn't say anything else.

"What the fuck man? What the hell do you think you're doing?" I snap at him.

"Did you really want to stay with her?" Grant's eyes widen in realization.

"What's your problem with that?"

"I thought you despised that girl, so I came to your rescue." He answers and he seems really confused. "To be honest she is really scary dude! Did you see the glare she threw at me?"

Grant hasn't been updated with this week's news. I decided not to say anything to him and I asked Matt not to as well, because I was in no mood to be interrogated. Also it was only noon that me and Alice managed to do the whole hacking thing and I didn't see Grant until the game, so he left clueless.

"I don't despise her. She's just getting on my nerves and I finally got to be on her good side, but after the words you've blurted I am back to zero."I exhale looking still a bit angry at him.

I liked that me and Alice talked like that. On good terms! Also she finally admitted that I am not the asshole she thought, but after Grant's intervention she will add some more flavour to the A word. I am not even sure if I calmed her at the end and the doubt is itching me. Why do I care if I am at Alice's good side that much? I shouldn't give a fuck about it. Why do I keep my mind busy with that? Let her think whatever she wants.

"Anyway you didn't know it and sorry for snapping at you like that. This girl is messing with my head." I rub my head intensely and look apologetically at him.

"I can see that!" Grant eyes me carefully. " Anyway sorry about that!" Next time throw me a heads-up! Back to our topic, what I told about the other bar is true and Max" he shows me a black haired guy across me "has already arranged with some girls!Are you in?"

"Fine!" I exhale, but the truth is I am not that hyped to go.

"Great dude! You'll not regret it." he says enthusiastically and I just nod.

After a while, we are leaving to go to the other bar and the only thing the guys are talking about are the girls we are going to meet and I just take part in the conversation just to be friendly.

The truth is that the only thing that is stuck in my head is the uncertainty if Alice is mad or not at me and really I don't know why it's such a big deal.

Alice's POV

I am walking with a nervous pace to my car, holding the keys tight in my hand. Unfortunately, I didn't find a parking spot near the bar, so I have to walk for several minutes, if what I am doing now it's called walking. It's more like stomping and I have no idea why I am going like this.

Everything was so great. Me hanging out with the guys... Having fun, drinking, teasing each other,celebrating our first victory. Later, I was left alone with Joseph and for the first time it didn't mind me. Like at all! We were talking and laughing! My brain still can't process that. Me and Joseph interacting like normal people.

After our afternoon's activities, I was so happy that my paper was sent, so I felt like I had to repay Joseph somehow and buy him a drink looked like a good way(Ren as Japanese says that you should always say thank you and always show your gratitude).Actually, I should keep buying him beers until the end of semester to repay him, but as ancient greeks say 'Well begun is half done'.

After this week I understood that Joseph isn't the jerk I thought he was. He is actually a good guy and maybe we can get along as friends. And maybe we can be together at the same place with other people around us, without declaring World War III. That's a good thing!

But why I have this nagging feeling that bouncing inside my stomach? Why my mood suddenly darkened when this stupid friend of Joseph's came along to invite him to this other bar, with a harem waiting for them?

Well I met Claire tonight, who is a friend with benefits to him, but it didn't strike me as bad as that. Claire is really pretty and has the moves I've got to say, but she was very friendly and polite as a person. The way Joseph was speaking to her wasn't sexual at all and Claire was cool too.

I know Joseph is a womanizer and that's not going to change. I am fully aware of that and for all that matters he can do whatever he wants, except if he's doing it in a small elevator with another human being inside. Other than that it's his life, no matter if it's to my liking or not, and he can live it as he wants. It's not my business and I wonder why did I act like that.

But why it looked that he wanted me to stay? A small voice in my head interrupts all the other thoughts. Well that's an answer I can't think right now, as my head feels like a freaking circus.

All I know is my pride didn't let me stay any longer, like I was begging for Joseph's attention. If he wants to go that's fine by me. I won't be an obstacle and not a damsel he needs to stick with. I am not that kind of girl.

I finally get to my car and put the keys to the engine. As I am driving I am turning the radio onto its highest volume, just to lose myself into the music.

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