Kya & Xavier: It's Always Been You (Life As We Know It Book 1) by Charelle Mills Page A

and then laughed at her own lame insult. “So was that your Kya wannabe?”
    “Don't worry about that, what I tell you about minding my
business.” He said as the three of us made our way to the top of the arena.
    “What I'm worried about is you getting my girl hemmed up by
your psycho girlfriend.”
    “You don’t have worry about that.” Xavier said and put his
arm around my shoulders. “I got this.”
    “Mmhmm and I got you if you get my girl caught up in some
BS.”
    “Why are you still talking to me about my business? Let me do
me.”
    “Whatever man! So Zay, how much do you love me?”
    “Don't answer that.” I said and laughed.
    “Girl don't block.”
    “What do you want Toni?” Xavier asked as he held the door
open so that Toni and I could go through it.
    “Tell me about Ethan?” Toni said with a little too much
enthusiasm.
    “What about him?” He said even though I could tell that he
knew what she was asking.
    “Does he have a girlfriend?”
    “Hell I don't know. I don't be into people's personal
business like that.” He said purposely trying to aggravate her, “and don't you
already have a lame ass man?”
    “Let me worry about all that. You just give me the goods on
Ethan.” Toni said. She linked her arm around Xavier’s and snuggled up close to
him.
    “Ky, get ya girl.”
    “Oh no, don't put me in this. That's between you two.”  
    “Come on Zay, who's always got your back and keeps the fridge
stocked with Dr. Pepper for you?”
    “No Toni. You're on an extra kinda crazy and I don't need my
boy mad at me.”
    I laughed and Toni hit me in her arm.
    “Ky help me out here?” She begged.
    “Not in this.” I said.
    “Well at least tell me if he has a girlfriend Zay, you can at
least do that!”
    Toni wrapped her arms around Xavier. “Please, please,
pleeaassse. This is my future you're playing with.
    Xavier managed to peel Toni away from his body. “The team is
having a mini dorm party tonight. You and Ky come and I'll see what I can do.
    “Done! See I knew you loved me.” Toni squealed, “And now I'll
leave you two to work out the rest of the details. She pressed a button on her
remote to unlock the car doors and then sat down in the driver’s seat which
left me and Xavier standing alone behind her Honda Civic.
    “Thank you for coming even though you left me hanging and
didn’t reply to my text.” He said, leaned back on the car and dropped his gym
bag onto the ground next to him.
    “My bad, when I thought about it I knew that you were
probably already getting ready for the game so I just didn’t.”
    “No love.” He said with a half-grin.
    “Doesn't seem like it was a good idea for me to be here
anyway.”
    “Don't worry about that.” He knew that I was referring to the
argument he had with who I assumed was Tori after the game.
    “Not my business.”
    “Everything about me is your business.” He grabbed me around
the waist and pulled me toward him so that I was positioned in between his legs
and leaning into his chest.
    I held my head back so that I could look up at him. “I'm sure
she would disagree with that.”
    “What did I tell you about stressing over unimportant things?
I'm talking about you and me right now.”
    “You and me? We're friends right? Isn't that what we agreed?”
I pulled away and stepped back.
    “You made that decision. Not me.” I could tell that he was
annoyed and he was right, I did make that decision but only because I was
expecting him to fight for me. You didn’t
exactly disagree did you ?
    “So it's all on me?” I asked irritated that he was trying to
make it all my fault.
    “I'm not saying it's all on you but you gave and walked away,
not me.”
      “I didn’t give up I
just got tired of competing. You couldn't make a choice so I made one for you.”
    “What if I realized I was wrong and that I should have?”
    “Should have what?”
    “Made a choice.”
    “You always knew that you were wrong Zay. That's