Genius (CENTURIES series: Book #2)

19

Oh shit.

Mia literally could not grasp just how royally fucked this situation was.

First, there was the thing with Mia who supposedly hated Eli – at least as far as Anna and Zoe knew.

Then there was the whole thing with Anna having a little crush on Eli. Mia had been discouraging her not to sleep with him, but now Mia had herself. Anna – as the psychology student that she was – would brand that as hypocrisy and no one would blame her.

That only left the whole 'who are you dating' thing to be accounted for; Her and Eli weren't dating, nor were they really hooking up. They had fucked a few times, but that was really it. They had never done more, except for one confusing kiss. One neither of them hadn't talked about yet and probably never would.

However, as one could only imagine with Eli being there in her apartment, only in a towel, looking the way he always did; gorgeous, deadly and fuckable, it was natural of Anna to be staring blatantly at him with her mouth hanging open and very natural of her to be jumping to conclusions.

Mia realized how bad this looked, and she couldn't exactly tell her the truth. What the fuck was she going to do then?

Which way was Mexico again?

After what seemed like forever of uncomfortable silence, Anna finally closed her mouth. She cleared her throat some, but kept staring at Eli, or more specifically his body which Mia quickly realized was the first time she was laying eyes on it. The extensive tattoos always were a tongue-stun. "So... I guess I know why you didn't want us coming over now." She finally said.

"Anna..." Mia begun.

Eli then suddenly just walked off, heading to the living room where he grabbed Elana from her pillow fortress and then went into their bedroom. The door closed.

– Obviously he didn't want to be there for the fight that was coming up.

Mia turned back to Anna. "I want to explain before you go nuts."

"Why should I let you?" Anna cold replied, crossing her arms. "You've clearly already made your case. You could've told me, ya know."

"Told you what?"

"That you had a thing for him, too!" She snapped, letting go of her anger. She stepped inside Mia's apartment, but stayed in the hall. "If you'd told me you had a thing for him, too—"

"I didn't—I don't," Mia cut in. "Is that what you think? That I tried to push you away so I could sleep with him myself?" That idea was even worse than her own theory.

"Ohhh, I'm sorry, so you haven't slept with him?"

Mia opened her mouth, but quickly closed it again. She couldn't lie, not anymore. She didn't want to.

"My point exactly," Anna scoffed when Mia shamefully looked down. "I'm not even gonna bother with you. Bye, Mia."

"Anna, wait!" Mia grabbed her hand when she turned to leave, and pulled her back, begging her not to go. Anna paused and glared back at her, resentment written all over her face. "I swear, it's not as it seems. We aren't a couple, we're not even—we're nothing! We're just helping each other out."

"Helping each other out," Anna echoed, grimacing in disgust. "Is that what you call what you're doing? You suck him off, he tongues you, or do you fuck each other until both parties have—"

"My god, stop!" Mia said, horrified. "Christ, Anna, is that the kind of person you think I am?"

"I don't know anymore!" Anna now screamed. In that moment Mia was so happy that Elana was deaf. Anna could break sound barriers with her screeches when she got mad. "I don't recognize you anymore, Mia! Who are you!? The Mia I knew wouldn't have done something like that to her friends, she didn't keep secrets, and she certainly didn't hang around fuckboys like him!" She yelled and pointed to the bedroom where Eli was. "You think just because you manage to get some dirty dick, you get to act like the kinda bitch you are right now?! Get your little motherfucking white head straight, girl; Chicks before dicks."