Dude's A Lady?

Chapter Twenty Two

"You look like crap." Ty said when he saw me walking towards him from the diner's entrance.

I narrowed my eyes at him and flipped him the bird. Ty smiled sheepishly and gestured to our reserved booth. "You know how to swoon a girl, don't you?" I scoffed, "It's no wonder you don't have a girlfriend."

"I can have a girlfriend if I want." he retorted arrogantly. "But I'm saving myself."

"For what?" I asked distracted as I began to scan the menu. Ty remained silent when I looked up from the menu expectantly.

He stared at me.

Not just stared at me. But he was looking. Like a boy should look at a girl. With gentleness, wonder, and awe.

Then he blinked his blue eyes and averted his gaze elsewhere.

"For an opening." he answered solemly. Before I could gauge what he meant, Ty quickly changed onto another topic. "So how did you survive another night with your brother?" he asked with a chirp to his tone.

I hadn't told Ty that my parents were back. The only one who knew was Blake. But that's only because he caught me in a moment of vulnerability.

"Restless." I offered him vaguely.

"Oh yeah, how come?" he asked whilst flagging down a waitress.

"My parents are back in town. I was nervous about seeing them again." I admitted sheepishly. "It's not a big deal now, but I did lose some sleep to it."

"Why didn't you tell me sooner? I could have helped you. Or been there to talk to you." he frowned clearly upset. And I can't blame him. I claim he's my best friend, yet I couldn't find the urge to pick up the phone and ask him to come over.

Instead I found solace in a perfect stranger. Then to add insult to injury, it was his former friend. The one guy he can't stand right now.

What the hell is wrong with me?

"I'm sorry, I should have called you. On the bright side I did get to binge watch criminal minds." I replied cheekily to lighten the mood.

"You have an addiction to that show. I wouldn't be surprised if you one day got away with murder." Ty chuckled taking the bait and switching the topic. The last thing I wanted to do was talk about my family.

"Of course if I did commit a murder, you would be my alibi." I swore earnestly.

"We spent the whole day looking at baby pandas at the zoo. Then we got kicked out for trying to steal one." Ty added to our fake alibi.

"It sounds really good,the only problem is that is sounds like something I'd do. Don't doubt my panda kidnapping skills." I joked flicking water at him. Ty flinched but quickly retracted by flinging water back at me.

"Not today King." he said challenging me. I narrowed my eyes at him, ready for a battle.

Taking a quick sip of my water, I spat at him. Ty's eyes widened in shock but fired at me too. I gasped and dodged out of his way.

This time Ty snatched a few fries off an empty table and aimed them at me. One hit me square in the nose as Ty cackled in victory.

I glared at him and stole a few tator tots from a chubby kid next to us.

"Hey!" he cried out angrily.

"Sorry kid, this is serious." I brush off the kid taking a handful of his tots and firing them at Ty.

"Those are mine you crazy-"

"Hey, that sentence better end with 'you crazy beautiful goddess!'" I shouted cutting off the kid. I may be crazy...but I am no b^tch.