The Boy and the Bookstore

Chapter 18 - Karaoke

“I need you to ask Jamie out on a date for me.” Sam said standing in the doorway of Charlie’s college dorm room. He was sitting in the middle of a futon couch with a girl on both sides of him.

“Uh… I think you can ask her out yourself.” Charlie said awkwardly as the two girls looked at him.

“What are you even doing here? How did you know which room was mine?” Charlie asked.

“Seriously? c’mon.” Sam pulled out his wallet and grabbed a ten dollar bill. “Ladies can you run to the gas station or somewhere on campus and pick us up some soda. I need to talk to your lover boy.” The two girls gave Sam a disgusted look and then looked at Charlie. “I don’t really care if you get the drinks or not. That was just my nice way of throwing you out of the room and getting ten dollars.” The two girls got off the futon. One of them grabbed the ten dollar bill and the two of them left. Sam turned around and shut the door after they left.

“You know you didn’t have to do that. You could have just called me or something.” Sam walked over and sat down on the desk chair.

“I wanted to come check out your new place. See if there were any new slam pieces I might run into.” Charlie shook his head with a smile.

“So why do you need me to ask Jamie out for you? Assuming that is really the reason you came here.”

“I don’t need you to ask her out for me. I need you to ask her out for you. She’s driving me nuts.” Sam said standing up.

“I don’t even know the girl.” Charlie said before Sam cut him off.

“I hang out with her three times and all the sudden we are best friends.” Sam said pacing around the room. “You can’t be friends with a girl that hot. It’s torture.”

“Well I can’t do it.” Charlie said. Sam stopped pacing and looked at him.

“Why not? She’s gorgeous.”

“I’m involved right now.” Charlie said serious. Sam laughed at him.

“You’re fucking me right? The last time I saw you you were playing the field and chasing everything that moved. You were bragging about how many girls you were sleeping with. You can’t be dating some girl.”

“Yeah well school got started and classes started taking up time. I mean there’s only so much sleeping around you can do before girls start to talk and you’re labeled something you don’t want to be.”

“Oh I’m sorry. One of them said you were bad in bed didn’t they?” Sam said sitting down on the futon.

“No! That never happened.”

“It’s either that or you’re lieing to me.”

“I swear to God man.”

“How do you expect me to believe any of that garbage when you’re sitting here in your dorm room with two girls on your couch?” Sam questioned.

“You know how girls can be. How many times have you told me ‘you can’t be friends with girls?’ Those two girls are both waiting for me to mess things up with Mary so they can slide themselves right in there to take her place. They are just pretending to be my friend until a breakup happens.” Sam laughed.

“No wonder they looked pissed when I said to ask Jamie out. They probably thought you were single again.”

“Exactly. Why don’t you just have your buddy Pete ask her out or something?”

“Pete’s too old and too ugly for her. Plus she is the case that he is working.”

“What do you mean?”