Perfect For Me: Road To Whatever (Perfect for Me #1)(14)
I frown to myself as I push my way into the basement. I am going to drive myself crazy if I don’t do something about the way this girl twists me up in knots. I feel like I’m in junior high again and I was never this awkward then.
B
“So you guys have been spending a lot of time together,” Mandy says suggestively as my aunt leaves to work on her blog.
She and my uncle had talked about moving back home when I turned eighteen. Especially since Marcy our house keeper and Bo our driver still worked for us even after my parents’ death but I think they stuck around because I haven’t been coping so well. My aunt runs her own blog that serves her very well and my uncle has been standing in for my dad with the company to help keep things alive in case I ever decide I want to take over the business and to help keep things afloat around here as well.
My parents left me a pretty nice nest egg but Uncle Trevor makes sure things run off the business and not my trust fund. I am grateful for all they have done for me. They may not understand me sometimes and try to push too hard for me to open up but they are just doing their best with what they have been given.
They both would have loved for me to work for my dad’s company but I just can’t. I’m not ready for that. It would be too much for me. Working there would just sting in ways I am not ready for. Being in the band is one thing, just one step. I don’t think I will ever be ready for what Uncle Trevor wants. He has offered plenty of times to work with me on my music but I just can’t. It had been my thing with my daddy.
“Who,” I reply absentmindedly. I know very well she means Rage. I had a feeling everyone was going to start to point it out more.
“You and Rage silly. I know he said all that about you two building chemistry for the stage and all, but…I don’t know. Are you sure there isn’t more going on,” Mandy giggles as she wiggles her brows at me.
“Your brother and I have a working relationship, nothing more,” I confirm.
“Hmm…Nolan is a great guy when you get to know him just so you know,” Mandy replies thoughtfully.
“Well…I’m not really looking for that right now and I think it would be a distraction from the band,” I lie. I was so ready to kiss Rage before she and my aunt interrupted. He smells amazing today. He always smells nice but he is doing something different that had me feeling like I was in an Axe commercial ready to wrap myself all around him.
His breath was so warm against my skin and I just wanted to know what kissing him would be like. I know Rage is supposed to be a ladies man just like the other guys in the band but I’ve never seen him leave with any of the groupies from the club. He always leaves with me, making sure I get home safe.
I won’t lie. I have had thoughts about whether or not I can trust Rage. Then I shake off the thought because he is not even interested in me in that way. I’m just another little sister and I need to remember to stay away from anything other than that. But he was going to kiss me right? My signals can’t be that off. I miss Linc. He would know the answer. I groan to myself because even if Linc was around. He would be the last person I would be able to ask anything about another guy.
“I think you two would make a cute couple and we could be sisters like we always talked about,” Mandy beams.
“Okay, now you are losing it. Rage is just a friend that I can use right now. Besides you know your brother better than I do and we both know I am not his type.” I frown at not being his type; there is really nothing I can do about that.
“Hmm, you are not his type when it comes to groupies, but we are not talking about you taking up groupie status,” Mandy stops and her eyes light up. “I could totally ask him if he is interested. You guys could go on an official date.”
“No,” I growl in exasperation.
“An official date with who,” Rage asks as he reenters the kitchen.
I glare at Mandy effectively letting her know I will kill her if she breathes a word. Rage looks between the two of us for an answer, narrowing his eyes at Mandy when I would not reply.
“Nothing,” Mandy murmurs. “I was just trying to hook Kitty up but she is not interested. She is never interested.”
“Mandy, my love life is private and I don’t need help. I have other things that are far more important right now. Like a rehearsal down in my basement at this very moment.”
Rage is just standing there for a moment searching for something in my face, he nods when he comes to his conclusion. He grabs the things I sat out to be taken down for everyone to eat and we are off.
CHAPTER Five
I haven’t let Kitty out of my sight since I walked in on her and Mandy talking about her dating. When I’m not with her she is with Crush working on a song she says she is not ready to share with the rest of the band. I will not deny that I have a hard time swallowing the fact that she is writing a song with Crush and not me, but I am trying to understand that she and Crush had a connection when her parents were alive.
I’ve wanted to peel back more layers but Kitty shuts down and changes the topic anytime she feels like we are coming close to muddy waters. I can tell she is trusting me more and more but I still don’t push. I see that is something she doesn’t like. She shares when she is ready.
I have to admit I have been having a great time getting to know her more. She can drink the band under the table, but she doesn’t get trashed every time we are out. She is so smart. School has been taking up a lot of her time lately but I have been at her place whenever she is studying and writing papers. I did pretty well in school myself but it is like Kitty has taken on all the classes most college students would steer away from, at least as long as they could.