Tattoo Your Name On Me

5. One-night-stand Kinda Guy

Farrah

Meeting the rest of Paige's friends has been an interesting experience. I really liked Benji and Aidan, but I was most interested in Ryker. There was just something about him that drew me in and kept my attention. With that sexy attitude, and those beautiful blue eyes: Ryker was just my type. And I must admit, I wanted to explore this insane chemistry that Ryker and I had with each other.

"What do you do for fun, Farrah?" Ryker asked.

His husky voice still made my heart flutter even after I'd heard it off and on for the last hour.

"Oh, nothing too specific. I like to hang out with my friends, listen to music, watch Netflix. The usual stuff, I suppose."

Ryker gave me a half-grin. Ever since we started talking about everyone's majors he chilled out, and wasn't such a dick. "Nothing else? Nothing weird or specific that you like?"

"What do you mean by 'weird'?" I asked, adding finger quotations to weird.

He chuckled. "I mean like talk to plants, or build miniature cities, or some shit."

Aidan teased, "He's asking because he does both of those things. Gotta find someone to match his freak, you know?"

"I don't do either of those things," Ryker affirmed and shot Aidan a glare. He then turned his gaze on me, and the heat in it shot a pulse of electricity all the way to my toes. "Well?" he pressed.

"Um, does babysitting count..?" I asked awkwardly. Good, going, Far. Way to look stupid in front of all of them.

"Sure," Ryker said with a grin. He sure was a lot cuter when he smiled. A lot softer.

"What do you like about babysitting?" Delia asked.

"Nothing in particular. I've just always loved kids."

Zona added, "I love kids too! They're so adorable when they're little." She wrinkled her nose and laughed. "You know, when they're not shitting themselves."

I laughed with her. "Yeah, that's definitely a downside. Changing diapers has to be the worst part."

"Do you babysit for your family? Or do you do it as a job?" Paige asked.

"A little of both. I used to watch my neighbors' kids in junior high, then I started to babysit part-time when I was in high school."

"That's cool. At least you were doing something you actually enjoyed," Benji answered. "I work part-time at the animal shelter down the street, and I love it."

I nodded. "That's really cool. I'm not a big animal person myself, but since you wanna be a vet, I can see you really liking that."

Benji looked appalled by my statement.

Aidan said, "Don't tell Benji you don't like animals. He'll never be your friend now."

I feigned an apologetic look, and winked at Benji. "Sorry, I'm just not a fan of slobber and fur."

Benji shrugged. "I get it. Not everyone's a fan of animals."

Ryker quirked his pierced eyebrow. "So, you like children, but not animals?"

I took a drink of my beer to try and quench my dry mouth. "Yeah, so? Something wrong with that?"

Ryker chuckled. "So feisty..." His eyes darkened as he stared at me. He gave me a smirk and downed whatever was in his cup. "There's nothing wrong with it. I'm just fucking with you."

Geez, just the mention of fucking had my mind filling with all sorts of dirty images...

"I'm gonna get another beer," Ryker said as he got up. He stretched his arms over his head, exposing a sliver of skin on his waist that was also covered in ink. I was insanely curious what tattoos he had. The only one I could see clearly was a red rose on his neck, and the rest were hidden under his clothes. My curiosity only made me want to get him naked even more.