Kyle

I knew my girlfriend Anna was mad at me by the way she slammed my car door. She knew I hated that, but it was her go to move whenever she was pissed at me. “Something wrong?” I asked irritably as we walked up to Dustin’s apartment.

“Yeah. I told you I wanted to go shopping, Kyle, not go to your dorky friend’s house.”

“He’s not my friend,” I argued. “Not really”

“Bullshit! You hang out with him at least a couple times a month.”

“We play games or watch movies. Doesn’t mean we’re tight.”

“Oh, I’m sorry,” Anna said sarcastically. “He’s just an acquaintance that you hang out with on a regular basis and share hobbies and interests with. Like a friend!”

“Look, I only do it because he helped me graduate last year. You know this.”

“Doesn’t mean you owe him a kidney or anything.”

“This is hardly a kidney. He asked for me to stop by today, and to bring you along. He said it was really important, and fuck it, I owe him.”

Before we got to the steps that led to Dustin’s third floor apartment, my girlfriend grabbed my arm to stop me. “You don’t owe him anything. You were nice to him at school, and that was enough. You can stop now. He’s a lost cause.”

I just smiled at her, and shrugged free of her grip. I hated when she tried to tell me what to do, which was becoming more and more frequent.

As she huffed behind me, she kept on grumbling. “Why the hell did I have to come anyway?”

I tried to placate as we climbed the stairs. “I’m sure it’ll be quick. He probably just needs a woman’s perspective on something, and that’s why he had me bring you.”

Anna groaned. “My perspective is that he hit a treadmill and shower more than once a week. Let’s just go. Let’s say that something came up and you can come back by yourself tomorrow.”

I whirled around to face her. “Give me a blowjob in the car and you got a deal.”

She pursed her lips. “Counter offer. I let you be single again.”

I sighed. “Sorry,” I said half heartedly. “But he probably already saw us pull up. Let’s just go. It’ll be quick, then I’ll take you shopping.”

She stared at me for a moment, weighing her …