I Don't Mind

Chapter 16

Adrian's POV

"So, we should go back to the dorms and we can go and pick up some pizza together, okay?" Derek asks and I nod at him. 

"Yeah. Are we gonna eat at the pizza place or somewhere else?"

"Either way is fine with me."

"Okay. We can decide when we get back to the dorms."

"Cool. See you there," Derek says, getting into his car. 

I get back in my car and follow Derek back to the dorm building. I'm glad we're alright now. I've never seen that side of Derek before when he was trying to console me. He did a really good job of calming me down. I think after that, we might become even closer than we were before I walked in on him. It might still be awkward though, because I saw him naked. 

I park at the dorm building, and Derek is standing outside, scrolling through something on his phone. He looks up to see me and smiles. He didn't really look up to see me because I'm so much shorter than him, but he looked a little bit up from his phone.

"So, do you wanna eat at the restaurant or here or somewhere else?" he asks. 

"We can eat here. Can we stop at the gas station on the way back here, I want a drink."

"Yeah, of course. Should we take my car or your car?" 

"We can take my car. I'm more used to driving you anyways."

"Yeah, true. Alright, let's go," he says, and we leave. 

When he was hugging me in the locker room, I can't believe I didn't even notice what he's wearing. He's in a black wifebeater and shorts. It will not be difficult to start being deathly attracted to this man again. He's ripped. I don't know how he would be allowed to go places in this outfit, you can clearly see his pecs and they are huge. 

"So, when we get back, if you're comfortable with it, do you want to tell me about what happened at the camp?" he asks. 

"Yeah, sure. I need to vent about it to someone, and you sound like you actually want to know what happened, so I'll tell you about it. Thanks for helping me back there by the way." 

"Don't even mention it. I'm sorry for treating you so horribly. I have no excuse for that. You're an amazing person and I should've trusts you right off the bat. Maybe if I trusted you and I told you that I trusted you, you wouldn't have gone to the camp and you wouldn't have to go through this stuff. I feel kind of guilty for this." 

"Don't blame yourself for that. I probably still would've gone because it would still be awkward between the two of us. I saw you having sex, that's not really something that builds friendships," I state and he nods.

"Yeah, that's true." 

"I still should've gone though, looking back at it I think being a little awkward sounds better than inheriting anxiety and panic attacks every couple of weeks." 

"Yeah. But you definitely bulked, there's no doubt about that," he states and I swear to got I'm probably blushing like crazy right now. 

"Thanks. By the way, I thought I needed to bulk up, but the other kids there were half my size. They needed way more work than me." 

He laughs. "And you said they're at D1 schools?" 

"Yeah, a lot of them are going to D1 schools, it's hilarious. Half of them aren't even close to good enough to play D1 anyways," I tell him and he laughs again. His laugh is so infectious. 

"What schools did you say they're going to? Colorado and another school, right?" 

"Yeah. Florida State is where the other one is going. That's the guy I'm actually worried about. His friend on Colorado said that the Florida State one would get his linemen teammates to beat me up."