Chapter-20

ɪꜰ ᴡᴇ'ʀᴇ ᴍᴏᴠɪɴɢ ᴛᴏᴏ ꜰᴀꜱᴛ, ᴡᴇ ᴄᴀɴ ꜱʟᴏᴡ ᴜᴘ

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"I slept with my boss." I say seriously.

"Was he good?" Rome asked.

I was freaking out about the whole thing last night and in the morning, telling Melissa and Logan wasn't an option. Luke would've been bouncing with joy about how his theory of me being in love with Chase was true. So here I am, sharing everything with Rome.

We make a perfect pair, we're always talking about our non-existent love lives, well..now mine since Rome asked his dreamgirl out.

"Shut up." I groaned.

"I'm curious darling, is he the same guy who I saw that day?" He asked referring to the day Chase was sick.

"Yep." I mumble.

"So was he good pretty girl?" He asked, clearly amused with the situation.

"I did not have sex with him asshole, I slept with him like..two individuals lying on the same bed." I say, looking up at the gym ceiling. This jackass wanted to take me to the gym because he needed an extra workout for the burgers we're going to gobble down our throats later.

"Oh. I'm disappointed in you, that guy was fine as fuck." He said, shaking his head at me.

"You! You don't get to look at other people when you have a girlfriend." I point at Rome, who was bench pressing effortlessly. If I wasn't worried about other things, I probably would've been ogling him, but he got a girlfriend and again, I'm a nice person. I don't look at other's men.

"Broke up with her darlin'." He tells me, oh so casually.

"She what?" I ask, pausing my legs at the treadmill. He's now sitting on the bench, wiping sweat from his forehead with his t-shirt. My traitor eyes drop down to his abs, I quickly look away.

"She cheated." He shrugged.

"Give me her address."

"Nah, not worth it." He says, smiling a little.

"Why didn't you tell me?" I let out a cry.

"I was going to, just happened 2 days ago."

"Bitch." I murmur. I knew he liked her too much, it was clear in the way his eye used to lit up every time he talked about her.

He came and stood infront of my treadmill and increased the speed. "Being lazy, pretty girl?" He asked as I ran faster.

"I'm not the captain of a football team." I roll my eyes.

A guy who was apparently eavesdropping on our conversation butted in. "It's soccer."

We both flipped him off.

"So about your guy-"

"He's not my guy. He has a name, Chase." I tell him begrudgingly.

"Yeah, your guy Chase. Are you going to get fired?" He asks.

"I don't know!"

"Don't worry darling, you can be my assistant." He winks.

"No, I want to open a bakery." I tell him.

"When was this decided?" He asks. I know it wasn't decided but I took this decision a few days ago, I wasn't so sure about it but it does seem like a nice idea coming out of my mouth.

"I'll be your regular customer." He grins.

Rome looked up as the door to the gym opened. "Stop checking people out dummy." I scold him.

"What is wrong with the gym in my house?" A familiar voice grumbled.

"The absence of hot guys and girls." Another familiar voice said. "And your jealous ass banned me from looking at the love of your life." He continued.

I didn't turn around to confirm my suspicions because I was on the floor, my chin hit the treadmill pretty hard.

"Fuck." I groaned in pain.

Rome laughed before bending down to help me. "Stop laughing asshat." I warn him. I never felt so painful while talking. My jaw will hurt, I can't have my fucking burgers! He didn't stop his snickering obviously.

He stood up and gave me his hand, helping me up. I don't want to turn around. I won't turn around. I won't turn around. I keep chanting in my head.

"Is that you Cel?" I heard Caden ask. Well, shit.

"Stop looking at them asshole." I whisper to Rome.

"The blue eyed one is coming this way." He tells me.

"Hide me Roman!" I plead. I don't wanna face them. It's fucking embarrassing.

"That's not my name." He tells me for the hundredth time. I don't care, Roman is his full name according to me.

He keeps his hand on my shoulder and walks us to the locker room.

Apparantly we both are idiots because they both were going to the locker room too because they need to keep their bags there.

"You're an idiot, you know that?" I whisper-yell at him.

"I was saving your ass you dimwit." He whisper-yells back.

My leg hits someone's gym bag causing me to fall again, Rome doesn't even keep me from falling, asshole. Fan-fucking-tastic.

"Rome Rodriguez." A shocked Caden says.

"Hi." Rome says, probably grinning I guess.

"I'm a big fan." Caden says, starstruck.

"Nice to meet you.."

"Caden." He replies quickly.

"Well, nice to meet you Caden." Rome says. They both start talking about football stuff completely ignoring my fallen ass.

I don't need to look up to see who's kneeling down beside me. I turn to look at the man of the day himself. He's looking at me with a clenched jaw. Please god, don't make him fire me at a fucking gym. I sent a quick prayer to god.

He holds my hand and helps me up. "Didn't know you had a boyfriend." He says in a low voice.

"He's not my boyfriend." I frown.

"Are you okay, love of my life?" Caden butts his nose in, finally noticing me again.

"Why the fuck is he calling you that?" Chase asks.

"About that.." I trail off.

Rome is looking at me with amusement. I bet he's enjoying this so much. "Don't you have to work out or something?" I ask nonchalantly.

"Oh yeah, I'll leave you two for some..cuddling." Caden said before snickering at his own joke and leaving, my traitor bestie walks out with him. Leaving me alone with Chase.

I clear my throat. "So..are you going to fire me?" I finally ask the question that has been haunting me since the moment I woke up.

He scowls. "What for?"

"Uh-huh, nothing. I'll leave. Yep, bye. Nice meeting you." I blabber. I start walking away but he holds my wrist, pulling me back.

"Do you like him?" He asks, making me scrunch up my nose in confusion.

"Who?"

"The football guy." He grumbles.

"Like? Like-like him? Nope. He's not my type." I say. He doesn't have green eyes or curly hair. I want to say but I don't. Rome has nice abs and he's good looking, he's funny but the man standing in front of me is the only type I seem to want these days.

"Yeah? What's your type?" Is he teasing me? Do I sense playfulness in his voice?

"Blonde, dark eyes and not-so-tall." I explain the guy opposite to him.

"Oh." He mutters disappointedly.

"Ohmygod, he's dumb as fuck." Caden says out of nowhere, making us both jump in surprise.

"Caden." I groan. This man has noticed me getting embarrassed too many times.

"Even though I'm deeply hurt but, dude, just kiss each other already." My ex-bestie says, again appearing out of nowhere.

I'm sure my cheeks are on fire or there are just too many hot people in one room.

"Yeah, you should totally go on date." Caden suggests.

"I agree." Rome says. He's ignoring the glares I'm sending him.

"Right? Rome says he's going to show me a burger place. Chase will drop you home, love of- Celeste." Caden says.

"Didn't you two just meet?" I ask the assholes.

"Yeah, I think I like him." Rome says, keeping a hand on Caden's shoulder.

I ignore all of them and pick up my bag and entered the shower stall. Quickly taking a shower, I changed into a loose white tank top with denim shorts.

By the time I came back, I was hoping that they all went back to their business. They actually did but my ride back home wasn't present anymore.

Chase looked up at me as I came out.

"Uh, where's Rome?" I ask.

"Left with Caden." He replied, getting off the wall he was leaning on.

"So um, bye." I say, dropping my sandals on the floor and throwing the shoes in the bag.

I walk out with Chase following me. I look at Rome's car which is still here, making the mistake of looking inside. Caden and Rome were making out. Well, didn't see it coming.

I quickly turn around, bumping into Chase. He was looking at his brother too. He looks away from them.

"This way." He tells me before walking to his car.

"No I'll manage." I say.

"Shut up." He says before taking my bag and throwing it in the back seat, and opening the door to the passenger seat for me.

"Thank you." I say, getting inside.

I notice he's not driving to my house.

"Where are we going?" I ask.

"To have breakfast." He replies.

"Can I have your phone?" I ask, I think it's time I change my contact name.

"No." He says.

"Rude." I mumble.

I keep silent for the rest of the ride. I think we'll just ignore the fact that yesterday happened. I'm glad about it, my hormones aren't but when they are?

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