Sometimes being Sherman Oaks High’s Adonis meant that you kind of had to have a girlfriend, good at sex or not, which was what Zoe was to Paxton— which was where you came in. His sneaky link, and partially best friend apart from Trent, so it kind of made sense, didn’t it? Speaking of, he was at your house right now for that reason.

It’d been a strange day, Devi caused drama — all the drama seemed to be caused by Devi — and he got a bad grade, so he really needed to blow off steam, and there was a code word for that. Whenever that happened, y’all had a specific code word: ‘pineapple’. Was it an inconspicuous code word? No.

Whenever either of you said ‘pineapple’, the other had to drop fucking everything right now to, well, have sex, which was why Paxton was jogging up the stairs two at a time after using your spare key under the front mat. Your house really needed security, but now’s not the time to say so, you both had bigger shit.

Ugh, bad days, bad days, they always kicked a guy’s ass. At least you were each other’s sneaky links though, it made the life of drama and getting grades that were shit a little bit more bearable, plus the hot making out and how it always went beyond that marker, but yeah. Time to say ‘pineapple’, have sex, all that.

“You busy? Cause, uh, pineapple.” Paxton gave you an almost tight smile, leaning against the doorframe, jacket over one shoulder. The code word was on the tip of his tongue, but he didn’t want to butt in, that wasn’t cool.

At least you’d drop everything when he said pineapple. Yeah. He just needed a steam blow off right now, of all times.