(JORDAN)
His eyes, wide as the open sky, danced back and forth on the both of us.
"Is anyone up for explaining this to me?" Alec asked.
Rose and I both spoke together.
"It was his mother—" she said.
"We're in love—" I rolled my eyes.
We both stopped and turned to face each other as the words escaped our mouths.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" she asked looking at me with an expression that spelled crazy. "We're not in love! It has something to do with this mother," she turned back to Alec.
"What does Emily—" Alec looked at me with sudden realization, "Oh."
"Oh." I walked over to my desk and leaned. "She was relentlessly hounding me about the same old thing. Just to shut her up I told her I had a girlfriend and the next thing I know she's in town."
"Emily is in town?" Alec's surprise was evident in his tone.
"For now."
"But what does this have to do with you?" he turned to Rose.
