"I'm sorry..." he says softly. He's sorry?

"What's that supposed to mean Trevor?" I said and he sits up and looks at me.

"We can't happen right now" he says.

"Okay bruh" I say rolling my eyes.

"Camari... I like you. I've been liked you and to be honest I wouldn't be able to tell you how long I've liked you. But I'm newly single and I feel like I need to correct my wrongs and figure out me before I can take care of you. Besides Cam, I need to earn you" he says and I look back at the T.V. "I hurt you... and if I had another chance I would do things differently. I want you, I do. But you deserve the best version of myself and that's what I'm going to work on" he says and I was bored. Why can't he say he just wants to play the field?

I lean back on the couch, grabbing my phone and went to Instagram to scroll through my feed. Trevor continues to stare at me and he shakes his head.

"Cam..." he says and I look at him. "I'm being honest with you"

"Okay..."

"You're saying it like you don't care or don't believe me or something"

"What do you want me to say?" I ask.

"That you understand. Shit... say something"

"I said okay..." I say again staring at him. He stares at me and shakes his head. He gets up and walks pass me to head to the back. I roll my eyes and lean back on the couch watching T.V. By the time Breenan got back home, I was falling asleep.

"You ready?" he said.

"Yea" I said standing up. The car ride back to the dorm was different. Breenan was being nice to me. We pull into the dormitory and I unbuckle the seatbelt. "Thanks for dinner" I say opening the door.

"We're going to take you and Desi somewhere soon. I feel like you guys haven't got to explore Arizona yet so"

"Can you stop being weird?" I say and he laughs.

"I'll see you later Cam" he says. I smile at him then close the door and went up to my dorm. It was quiet when I walk in and I couldn't tell if Desi was here or if she was sleeping. I went to my room and decided that homework will have to wait and I crawl into bed.

The following day, Desi and I decided to skip our late class. We were busy at the dorm watching YouTube videos. I was playing on my phone and snacking on some chips.

"I requested office hours" Desi says and I laugh and look at her.

"With Professor Warren?"

"Of course"

"You're a mess" I laugh and she joins me.

"So Nico?"

"Eh..."

"What does that mean?"

"He hasn't hit me up...still"

"You're annoying Cam, just call him"

"And say what?"

"Can you go down on me, duh?" Desi said and we laugh. "Ask him to hangout"

"If he wanted to hangout, he would have reached out"

"Maybe he's waiting for you, girl take charge" Desi says and I stare at her. I pause the YouTube video that was playing and I sat up. She's right. I pull up Nico's contact info in my phone and went to call him. My stomach starts to bubble and Desi smiles at me.

"Hello?" Nico says.

"Hey... it's me...Camari" I said and Desi shakes her head.

"Hey Camari" he laughs. "What's up?"

"I was just going to ask you that"

"I'm about to head to the gym"

"Oh... really? Because that's funny, so am I" I say.

"Sweet! We can link when we get there or something?"

"Yes, I'll like that"

"Okay" he laughs. "See you in a little"

"Awesome" I said and we get off the phone.

"Awesome? When do you say that?" Desi laughs and I shake my head.

"Here, get dressed and come to the gym with me" I said going to my bedroom.

"What? Why?"

"I need my wing-man" I say as I pull out some workout pants. I dig through my drawer to find a nice work-out top that enhances my figure and I went to put my converse on. When I was ready, I waited for Desi and we head to the gym. It took us a minute to get there as we haven't been to the gym here on campus.

"So what's the plan?" Desi ask.

"Bitch, I don't know. You're the one who told me to call him" I say and she laughs. "He said we can link"

"Like... workout together?"

"Wait... that'll be too embarrassing" I said and we start laughing as we head inside. "I don't want to workout with him"

"Just say you're here with me and we will work out or something"

"Then what's the point of coming?"

"So he can see you? Cam... come on" she said and I laugh. We turn the corner and Nico was in a cut off shirt with dark blue shorts talking to a girl up at the front.

"There he is" I smile.

"Go say hi" Desi said pushing me. I stumble forward then caught my balance. As I walk up to Nico, he looks over and a smile forms on his face.

"Hey" I said.

"Hey Camari" he smiles walking up to me.

"You can call me Cam... if you want"

"Cam... alright" he smiles and I laugh. "Hey... I hope you don't mind. We usually work-out everyday together, but Trevor's joining us" he says and my smile disappears from my face.

"Yo Cami" I hear his voice say and I roll my eyes. I look over and Trevor was leaning over to tie his shoe. Great.

"Umm... it's fine. Actually Desi is here and we're going to work-out together so"

"Oh" Nico says.

"Yea, I'll catch you after?" I said and he stares at me. I look over at Trevor before turning around and walking back over to Desi.

"What happened?" Desi says as we walk over to the treadmills.

"Trevor happened... why is he always around?" I ask as we get on the treadmills. We walk most of the time on the treadmill and here and there I would peep over at Nico. Him and Trevor were in full workout mode and although, working out was good for our health, I felt like this was a waste of our time.

"I got it!" Desi said stopping our machines

"Got what?"

"Play damsel in distress"

"What?" I laugh staring at her.

"We're here for you to flirt with the guy" she says grabbing my hand and we walk over to the mats.

"I don't want to seem desperate or that I'm trying too hard"

"You're not" she laughs. "Just act like you're hurting. Like you have a cramp or something, he'll come over"

"You forreal?"

"Do you have a better idea on getting his attention?" she ask and I roll my eyes. I sit down on the mat and look over at Nico as he was now working on pull-ups. "I'll go pretend to be lifting weights or something"

"This is stupid... and desperate"

"Yea it is, but still..." Desi says walking away. I watch Desi pick up dumb-bells and I start to stretch. Damsel in distress? I roll my eyes and hold onto my leg.

"Ow" I say and I look at Desi. She motions her hands to tell me to say it louder. I laugh a little then shake my head. This is so stupid. "OW!" I said louder and rub my leg. I peek up at Desi and she was now turned around.

"Cami, what's wrong?" someone says and I see Trevor squat down to me. Ugh! What the hell? Nico stands behind him staring at me.

"Nothing Trevor... I'm fine" I mumble and he stares at me.

"Is it your leg?" he says about to touch me.

"Hey Trevor" Desi says and we look over. "Can you please help me put this back?" she said pointing at her weights. Desi to the fuckin rescue. Trevor looks back at me and I look at him.

"I'm fine" I said. He shakes his head and gets up to walk over to Desi. Nico bends down and looks at me.

"What's wrong?" he ask.

"I'm not sure... my leg feels tight or something" I said rubbing my leg.

"From a scale one to ten... how bad?" Nico ask.

"Like a seven" I said.

"Camari... I just asked you if something was wrong" Trevor says looking at me.

"I mean... it hurts now" I said and he stares at me.

"Can you walk?" Nico said standing up.

"Yea I think" I say and Nico helps me up and I wrap my arm around him.

"I'm going to take her to the athletic office real fast" Nico says to Trevor. Trevor doesn't say anything as Nico helps me limp to the athletic office. Wow... this damsel in distress shit really worked. I couldn't help to smile because this was absolutely silly. The office was empty and Nico helps me on the bed.

"Are we allowed in here?" I ask.

"Yea... I use to work here my first couple years" Nico says looking down at my leg. I watch as he had sweat covering his head. "Does this hurt?" he ask rubbing the ball of his palm on my leg slowly.

"Umm... not really" I said. He laughs then looks at me.

"You probably had a charlie-horse, did you stretch before starting to work-out?"

"Mmm... that was probably it" I said.

"Or... you're lying and this was just an act" he says crossing his arms. I stare at him and couldn't help to laugh. Busted. "Camari... if you want to talk to me... just talk. I don't need you to pretend"

"Sorry... I just didn't think you were... interested"

"Why would you say that?"

"Umm... I haven't heard from you since our date?" I say and he stares at me.

"I'm sorry... my work schedule is hectic" he says staring at me.

"Right..." I said and he looks down.

"Actually... your brother wasn't too happy with me taking you out" he says and I roll my eyes.

"So you just roll over?" I said like a smart-ass.

"Excuse me?" he says and I hop off the bed.

"You guys are such... pussies when it comes to Breenan" I say staring at him.

"You guys?" he said and I shake my head.

"My brother doesn't control my life and neither should he control yours. So thank you for making it clear... that I was basically wasting my time" I say turning around to leave the office.

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