Uninvolved (18 page)

After dinner
,
they went back to
Becka
's house
.
Becka
had convinced him to try a Jamaican Ten Speed
.
It
was one of her favorite mixed drinks
.
It was e
qual parts Midori, Malibu, Cream de Banana
,
and pineapple juice over ice with a splash of milk
.
Dave was playing COD,
trying to ignore her drink making in the kitchen.

It
didn’t last long
.
Coming
over
,
Dave
jokingly said
,
"Woman
,
prepare me a beverage."

Becka
smirked and handed him a glass of water
.
Dave drank it and grumbled as he walked around the bar to make his own drink
.
As Kyle and Dave stood there talking
,
Becka
quietly watched him
.
Kyle seemed like a really nice guy
.
He
was cute, had a good job,
and
bought dinner
.
She just wasn’t as interested in him as she was in
Nate
.
She mentally kicked herself for admitting that.

Maybe situations like this are why
people say nice guys finish last
.
Either way
,
Becka
was bored
.
Claiming fatigue
,
she sweetly kissed Kyle, thanking him for dinner and excused herself to go to bed
.
Kyle, nice guy that he was
,
took it good
-
naturedly and asked if she would like to go out his next night off
.
Becka
fibbed
,
saying she already had plans that night
.
Dave raised his eyebrows at her
,
and she shot him a look like
“
don’t judge.
”

Knowing her well enough to know she would not be asleep
,
Dave pushed
open her door an hour later ask
ing
,
"What was that about?"

Becka
shrugged and scooted over on her bed to make room for Dave to sit down.

"I thought you liked him."
he said.

"
You know how I feel about that. I do not like people. I either want someone or I don’t
,
and I just don’t want him anymore
,
"
Becka
explained.

"You girls are such dumbasses
.
"

Dave was cut off by
Becka
smacking him in the face with a pillow
.
An impromptu pillow fight broke out as Dave first defended himself and then went on the attack
.
After an exhausting
three
minutes of all out war
,
it ended with Dave sitting on her.

"What I was saying
,
" he continued since
Becka
was now a captive audience
,
"was all the time I hear you and your friends bitch about wanting to meet a nice guy
,
and
,
bam
,
when you have one interested
,
you don’t like him."

"Can you please get your fat ass off of me?"
Becka
grumbled.

"Only if you pro
mise to admit you are bipolar, and my ass is not fat."

"Whateve
r! Get off
.
"

"But you're so comfy
,
" he said
,
standing up.

"You suck ass my friend
,
"
Becka
said
,
sitting up.

"Don’t go changing the subject
.
Besides,
I will never toss anyone's salad
.
"

"Gross!"

"You brought it up
.
"

"If I am going to talk to you any more tonight
,
I need another drink
,
"
Becka
said heading to the kitchen.

Following her
,
Dave sat on one of the breakfast bar stools
.
Chin perched on his hands
,
he sat waiting for her to make her drink.

After taking a deep gulp
,
she admitted
,
"I feel a little sucky for not being that into Kyle
.
It's just that right now I'm more attracted to
Nate
."

"When was the last time you even heard from that guy?" Dave asked.

Becka
turned red and took another gulp
.
"He
,
um, came over last night."

"And you did not tell me?
I'm hurt
.
Seeing as though there was no extra car in the driveway
,
I'm guessing he beat feet in the middle of the night again
.
So what? He just hit it and bailed?"

"
See that's the thing
.
We
still haven’t done it
.
In fact
,
he comes over
,
gets me off
,
and then leaves
.
I have never been with someone who does
that
.
Come on
.
Tell
me as a
guy
.
Is that normal?"

"Wait
.
You’re
asking
me
if that'
s normal?
Come on
,
Becks
.
You
and I both know that is not normal."

"Don’t get me wrong
.
I am okay with what he is doing, but it still feels weird
.
I mean it's not like I haven’t tried
.
At
this point
,
I'd be happy giving him a hand job
.
"

Dave gave her a look like TMI
.
"Tell him that."

"What if he said no?"

"No guy says no to a hand job."

"But what if?"

"He's not interested."

"I don’t want to know that."

"You girls are seriously mental."

Becka
put her head down on the kitchen counter and groaned
.
Why did wanting
Nate
make her feel pathetic?
Dave patted her on the head and told her to give Kyle another shot and cut her
losses
with
Nate
.
It was good advice
.
She
knew it, and while she may go out with Kyle again
,
she knew she was not done with
Nate
.

Becka
slept in the next day and moped aro
und the house doing laundry
then painted
her toenails
.
She felt like a loser
.
Part of her really wanted to text
Nate
to see what he had going
on
even though she knew if he wanted to talk to her
,
he would call or text himself
.
She surfed the
I
nternet
,
spending way too much time looking at pictures posted online of dogs with signs explaining how they had been bad
.
It was hysterical, almost as funny as the
website
with text message auto corrects.

She
felt guilty for the wasted day around dinner time
.
It seemed like a waste to shower since she would be going to bed soon but
,
feeling like it would lift her mood
,
went ahead and took one anyway
.
It worked
,
and she decided she would see if Dave was awake, pop some popcorn
,
and watch a movie a co
-
worker had le
nt her a million years ago
.
That
would be very productive she thought, to be able to return
it
the next day.
Dave wasn’t awake yet
,
so Becka started the movie without him.

Dave strolled out of his room not to long after and headed to the back patio for a smoke
.
Pausing the movie, she went out back to pick his brain some more
.
She already basically knew what he was going to tell her
.
She
just enjoyed over analyzing situations to torture herself.

"I
just woke up
,
Becks
,
" Dave mumbled, trying to stall
Becka
from any opinion
-
giving
until
he was more awake
.
Finally frustrated he said
,
"Look
,
we both know you aren’t going to listen to me anyways
,
so please just let me smoke."

"You're such a bitch when you
first
wake up
,
"
Becka
complained.

"I love you too
.
Now
go away
.
"

Becka
slammed the pati
o door behi
nd her a bit more forcefully tha
n she had intended
,
causing it to pop back open and Dave to laugh a
t her while she had to delicately
reclose it
.
She sat on the sofa and waited for him to finish his cigarette.

Once Dave
came back in
,
he said
,
"Alright, what do you want?"

"Well
,
even though you don’t think I'll take
your advice
,
it is still important to me to know what you think
.
Plus, I haven’t forgotten that Crystal did not leave when I did
,
so I was curious what happened there."

"I'll never kiss and tell."

"Bullshit
.
You’ll
kiss and scream."

"True
.
So
we hung out
,
but she had to take off before I could get very far
.
I didn’t even get her bra off."

"Oh
,
is that a goal?"

"She has great looking tits, way better than that Lucy chick, but it's hard to tell
for sure
‘
cause bras can be deceiving and make a chick with no rack look like she has one."

"You are such an ass
,
"
Becka
groaned.

"Yes, I am
,
" he replied quite proudly
.
"So what kind of advice do you want?"

"Should I text
Nate
or wait for him to text me?"
Becka
asked.

"
If I were you
,
I would not text him."

"Why not?"
Becka
whined, clearly hoping he would have said it was okay to text him.

"You just have been really available to this guy, and I don’t think that sends a good message."

"Well
,
what if he doesn’t text me?"
she
asked.