The Middleman | ongoing

7 | your boyfriend is such a dog

7 | your boyfriend is such a dog

Song: Trouble by Ethel & the Chordtones

Depicted Above: Matthew Settle as Brennan Dalton

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Walking into the Daltons' house, I made myself comfortable on the couch and checked my phone.

Sabrina was busy prepping and opening up a Swiss Miss hot chocolate box. Alex and Jules were yet to arrive, and Kale was probably upstairs doing lord knows what—especially after that last encounter.

Sabrina spun around to face the sink to wash her hands.

"FUCK." She took in my casual appearance on the couch as I looked up from my phone. "How did you get in here?" To her, it probably looked like a materialized inside her house from no where.

"Your mom gave me the keys to your house, remember?" Angela had insisted I had keys to their house in case of an emergency or if I just wanted to come over for kicks. I was there a lot, and Angela considered me as one of her own.

"Oh, yeah. Sorry forgot. Next time, make your presence known, okay? You gave me a mini heart attack. I was so close to shitting my pants," she scolded.

"Hey, at least if you did have a heart attack. It would be me giving you CPR and not Trey. Boy doesn't even know where the heart is located."

"And like you do, Leia? Pretty sure you can't be an expert about something you don't have, babe." She winked, grinning as I took in the insult.

"I'll have you know, I do have a heart. I just don't wear it on my sleeve and parade it around, y'know? It's just hidden. Somewhere deep deep deep down..." I trailed off.

Sab rolled her eyes, but her grin widened.

"I swear, Leia. One of these days I'm getting you a boyfriend. You still haven't had your first one yet. All these guys follow you around like dogs. They're literally salivating for you as gross as it sounds. You could get anyone. You have so much pull game."

"Sab, I don't want just anyone. Especially any of those knuckleheads. Bleh. I have standards you know," I argued back.

"Whatever. I'm going to find you a good guy just you wait," Sab reassured me.

"Okay, I'll be waiting then."

"I still can't believe you went through all these years of high school without a first kiss or having a thing with any dude. Are you sure you're not lesbian or something?"

I laughed out loud at the proposition. "Sab, I promise you I'm straight as hell, even though I question myself that quite a lot, too. Plus if I was, don't you think I would have jumped on Alex's ass first chance I got?"

Sabrina broke out laughing. "True."

"And anyways," I added, "you already know the reason why I don't indulge in the guys at school. If not, let me remind you. First off, most of them are douche bags and annoying as hell. That's not the type of guy I want to be dating. A lot of them aren't capable of carrying out genuine relationships to my standards. And second, I made a promise I would keep academics as a priority these four years. I'll always have time later, but I don't want to fuck my education up for some dude that has me momentarily sidetracked."

There were other reasons for my hesitance in even entertaining the idea of getting into a relationship, but I kept those thoughts to myself. It was just one of those other things I pushed back into the deep recesses of my mind.