RileyI wasn't sure how I felt about my lessons with Clayton a few days before. There was a part of me that wanted to be ashamed that I'd kissed him, but it was training ground, and it hadn't been him. It had been Ethan. I could pass any improv given to me if it was about love or lust or wanting. All I had to do was think about him.Walking to the parking lot from my last class for the day, I realized something. Jace and I would never be anything but really good friends. He needed to know that. As much as I hated to let him go for fear that things wouldn't work out in my own life and I'd really be left alone for the first time ever, I had to do the right thing.He deserved to be set free."Oh my God! It's Riley Phillips. Riley! Riley!" A group of people jogged toward me, all of their eyes wide and the smiles on their faces too big to be fake."Hi." I turned to fully face them and stood in awe as they shoved various pieces of paper toward me."Can you autograph my notebook? Just put to

Ethan"Dear baby Jesus. Why did we think this was a good idea?" Liam groaned as him, Deza and Frank walked huddled against me through the UCLA campus. Someone had gotten the memo that I was coming to see Riley in her play that night. Who spilled the beans was beyond me. I hadn't told Riley my plans in case they changed, and the only people that knew were the three wrapped around me as we shuffled forward."Guy, I'm not a senator or a prince. Fucking get off me and let me walk." I pushed at my brother's back as he walked in front of me. I'd stubbed my damn toes on his big black shiny shoes a million times.I would have thought after having the whole day to myself that my mood would have been better, but it'd been a long ass week. I was more worn out from laying around, thinking about Riley than actually living my damn life."Shut up and keep moving forward," Deza barked from beside me as the crowd around us seemed to grow. We had five guys working security for us because people were cr

RileyCharlotte met me at the back door of the theater when I'd finally pushed through the crowd. The smile on her face mixed with the way Ethan watched me moments earlier left butterflies dancing in my chest. They like me. All of them. It was weird to think that I wanted their approval, their accolades, but I did."You need to change?" She reached out and pulled me into a tight hug. Her navy dress looked good on her, and momentary worry rushed through me. Would Ethan think she was more beautiful than me? Stupid. I was being stupid. It didn't matter if he did."Yeah. I have a white dress hanging up in my dressing room back here. Come with me." I grabbed her hand and pulled her down through the back of the auditorium as we giggled and talked about how great the play was."Maybe you should be on Broadway and not in the movies." She closed the door behind us and pressed her back to it."Maybe." I shrugged and put my back to her. "Can you help me get out of this?""Yeah." She walked towar

EthanMy body was on fire for the beautiful woman stumbling up the stairs next to me. I'd have to get us both to the bathroom and clean us up or my brother would know immediately what happened. Like the bastard had pussy-dar or something. I smiled at the thought and knocked at the door."Hey. Wait up. What happened to you guys?" Charlotte walked up behind us, and I turned toward Riley, giving her a look.She nodded and let out a soft whimper before standing up straight and lifting her chin. "When?""When we got here. I had to sit in my damn car for ten minutes." Charlotte laughed awkwardly."We were discussing something about one of the movies that Ethan has been in." Riley shrugged and turned toward the door. "Where is Liam?""We were arguing, actually." I smiled back at Charlotte and lifted up on my toes to get the keys. "He's at the store or picking up Cole. Why this crazy bastard leaves a key above his doorframe is beyond me. He's got enough shit in this place to make ten men rich

Riley"Where is Ethan?" Liam, Ethan's older brother, called back to us from the grill."No clue." I stood up and smiled, feeling like everything was right with the world for the moment. Ethan and I were going to spend the night in each other's arms. What that meant for the future was still fuzzy, but irrelevant. I needed him like a freezing man needs a small fire, and something told me that he needed me just as well. "You need something?""Lots of things, but I'd get in trouble for listing them in front of you. My brother seems to have taken a liking to you." Liam wagged his eyebrows, making him impossibly cute in his own way. He wasn't his brother, but I could easily see why someone would be attracted to him.I glanced back at my best friend, Charlotte and Liam's buddy, Cole. They were laughing over something and lost in their own world.Liam's voice was closer, pulling me from my thoughts. "You wanna come grab a platter and hold it for me while I pull everything off the grill?""Yea