8. Hanging around

"You look like shit."

"Thanks for pointing that out to me," I roll my eyes while Emily hands me my cup of coffee.

"Was your date with Evans that good or that bad?" She wriggles her eyebrows at me. "I didn't hear you come back. It must have been late."

"You were curled up in front TV, watching Shadowhunters without me. Or shall I say, you slept to it?"

"Yeah, I probably ended up wanting to have it off with Jace after seeing him do his workout, so I could only fall asleep to have that in my dreams."

I chuckle at her boldness.

"But you are distracting me now. Is that a bad thing?" She brings us back to the topic.

"Jake turned up," I sigh.

Emily gasps loud. "Wait, what? What happened?"

I tell her the whole story, how I kicked Evans's ass and Jake appeared and challenged me. How I escaped with Evans and we spent time in the park talking about how we texted and Jake's eyes haunting me that I couldn't sleep.

She lets out a long sigh after I have finished my story.

"So, Jake didn't spill the