Liberate You, Liberate Me✔️

Chapter 16

16. To Date or Not To Date

"When was the last time you went on a date?" Jack asked as he laid spread across her bed with Sophia cradling his feet.

Sophia suffocated a giggle when Libra's eyes widened in surprise at the question. Was it too early to let him know that she had never been on a date with anyone? Libra wouldn't even know what she would do on a date let alone who she'd go on a date with. In high school she wasn't exactly dating material to any of her peers, they hardly noticed her, and now she felt silly diving in to any 'dating game' seeing how long she'd stayed out of it. And who would want to date me in the first place?

"I haven't exactly...you know, in high school I wasn't—"

"What she's trying to say," Sophia chimed in after a long while of suppressing her laugh, "is that she has never been on a date with someone."

Libra rolled her eyes at Sophia who seemed to have no trouble spilling Libra's embarrassments to their new friend, but Jack didn't laugh. Instead he winked at Libra and gave her his most compassionate look.

"I didn't date until college and trust me since I've started dating it's been like a drug, sadly enough for me there aren't any cute guys to date here any longer," Jack said and pouted his lips, "I only date seniors and now that I am one it takes the fun out of it." He explained and reached for his soda.

Here sat three late bloomers comparing experiences and it actually made Libra feel better. She let her hair down from her loose bun and fell her heavy locks fall onto her back, after this evening run-in with Dillon and his friends she felt more tired than before. Not that she had spoken to him at all, instead she had chosen to ignore them all completely and only steal some glances at him when she was sure he wasn't looking.

Dillon seemed to be everywhere she was these days and when he wasn't physically there she thought about it, a lot. For someone who had fallen at the brute of his sharp tongue she sure didn't act like it any longer, she was way too soft on him. When he had stepped into the café with the girl on his arm she had felt something close to disappointment. Stop thinking about him now, Libra!

"Why are we talking about dating anyway since it seems like none of us have one?" Libra moaned and forced out any unwanted thoughts she had at the moment.

Jack got up from the bed and wandered around the room, casually dragging his fingers along some of her clothes that were hanging on a chair. He stopped and picked up her denim dress, the one she had recently worn, and held it up against his own body. Jack muffled a giggle as he looked down at himself, as if he imagined how good he'd look in the dress.

Sophia's coughing awoke his daydreaming and his eyes darted in their direction as he put the dress down, "I was just thinking about last night and how jealous you looked when Dillon came in with that girl. Maybe you should ask him out on a date?"

Libra let out a chilly loud laugh at Jack's question. Ask Dillon out on a date, she would never be that stupid. She had to admit; she had been surprised when he saw her with his arm around the mystery girl because he seemed so different now, but he was allowed to date and socialize with whomever he wanted. Libra was here to graduate college and help herself and Sophia through their trauma, not to date or wonder who Dillon Holden was seeing.

"I wasn't jealous then and I'm not now either and for the record; the first guy I ever date will not be a jerk like Dillon Holden." Libra stated firmly and then asked them to talk about anything else, she was done discussing this.