25. Colton

They told me that to make her fall in love, I had to make her laugh. But every time she laughs, I’m the one who falls in love. —Unknown

“Let’s go out,” I suggested the next night as I patted Julianna’s thigh in encouragement.

It was night two of Aunt Flow’s visit and since there was no action going to go on in the apartment—except for that one little blow job I’d begged from her about two seconds after I’d arrived, but that had been nearly two hours ago—I was getting cabin fever.

Even Juli’s roommates were gone. She told me they often disappeared whenever she had her period because it made her so cantankerous, though I’d yet to see her even mildly moody.

Glancing up from the really boring show on the television we’d been watching about how cement was made, she blinked at me from big brown eyes.

“And do what?”

I shrugged. “I don’t know. Let’s get something to eat.” We hadn’t had supper, and I was always ready to eat.

She blinked as if startled. “You want to go out to dinner with