Kalie decided she was going to spend the night, and after tidying up, joined Maddison in her room. Maddison would miss her home, but she was glad to be leaving the hot-pink-painted room behind. She had out grown the color several years back but couldn't bring herself to change it. She and Mom had painted it together...

  "Alright, spill!" laughed Kalie tearing off her clothes and slipping into one of Maddison's baby- doll pajamas. Though the two were close in height, Maddison's breast size was a couple cups bigger than Kalie's A-cups and so the purple shirt looked quite baggy on her.

  Maddison rolled her eyes, knowing what her best friend meant and feeling a little nervous for some reason.

  "what's there to tell?" she hedged, giving vague answers she knew would drive Kalie bonkers.

  "Don't give me that! Danny was super hot and you barley batted an eyelash for him, and Paul could fry an egg on his abbs he was so hot and you hardly looked twice at him!" she exclaimed listing off a few of her ex-boyfriends.

  It was true. Most of Kalie's boyfriends were assholes, but nearly all were model hot. It was also true that they rarely made Maddison take a second glance. She was pretty sure her father thought she might have been a lesbian for a few years when she was in high school because of her disinterest in boys.

  At 21 Maddison had a total of two boyfriends, and neither had been very serious. Actually, she was still a virgin. A fact that Kalie seemed to think was her personal mission to remedy by introducing her to every man she could find.

  "So what makes this guy catch Maddison Beth Nixon's all too picky eye?" Kalie persisted, flopping on the pink bed and hugging a pillow.

  Maddison sighed and sat on the edge of the bed, a pair of pajamas held loosely in her hands.

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  "Oh, I don't know... he totally answered the door topless though." She said knowing her cheeks had gone red.

  Kalie laughed. "No kidding?"

  "Yeah. He even had a shirt with him too, but the whole time I was there he completely ignored it. And his voice..." Maddison felt a shiver run up her spine and Kalie whooped, bouncing on the bed.

  "Shhhh!" Maddison hissed, a finger to her lips. All she needed we Greg barging in on this conversation.

  "What else?"

  "um, he was tall... like giant tall. Probably six-six? And super built. He must work out a lot..."

  "Well, keep going."

  "Ah, he had messy black hair and really distinct green eyes." Maddison nearly mentioned Reece's butt and immediately discarded the idea. She would never hear the end of it!

  "Is he our age? He must be older right? No way a twenty-one-year-old owns and rents an apartment."

  "He isn't old. Maybe a few years older than us. Definitely not thirty yet, I don't think."

  "Anything else?"

  "Well..."

  "Oh come on Maddie! You're killing me!"

  Maddison laughed at her friends antics.

  "He kind of lives under the apartment I'm renting..."

  There was a moment of stunned silence, and then Kalie busted into a fit of wild laughter. Maddison couldn't help but smile.

  "You are so living some kind of daytime comedy right now!" she chuckled. "Living above the hunky landlord? Wow, I'm almost jealous. Sunday can not come fast enough."

  "Oh be quiet!" Maddison laughed and threw a pillow at Kalie.

  After a lengthy pillow fight that made Maddison feel like a twelve-year-old again, she finally got away long enough to take a shower. She really needed to get the bus smells out of her hair...

  She let the hot water trail down her pale body as her mind wandered back to Reece. The way his tanned skin moved around those perfectly defined muscles, and how his voice seemed to be just a little bit growly. And those eyes! She'd never seen a green like that before... sure her own green eye was a bright jade color she'd never seen on another person, but Reece's deep emerald ones sent pleasant chills down her spine.

  She could almost imagine the feel of his fingers tracing lines over her body as he gazed at her with those fierce eyes... God she needed to keep her mind out of the gutter! Picturing your landlord pawing at you before you've even moved in was no way to start a healthy relationship.

  She was sure Kalie would disagree about that point, but Kalie was hardly the angle side of her conscience sitting up there on Maddison's freckled shoulders.

  Hopefully, when she saw Reece again in two days, she would be a little less pervy about him.