“Alice, what are you doing?” Liv walked into my room with two different tops in her hands.
“Research,” I mumbled as I looked up at her, debating whether or not I should ask her if she knew who Elizabeth Jeffries was.
“Research for what?” Liv plopped down onto my bed, and I tried to adjust my laptop so that she couldn’t see it. It was one thing to be a stalker, but it was another thing to be caught stalking. Especially when it involves your best friend’s brother.
“Work,” I lied and avoided her thoughtful gaze.
“What do you have to research for work?” she questioned, her voice doubtful. And who could blame her? I was an assistant at a real estate firm. There wasn’t much that I did in the office, let alone had to do from home.
“What are you, an FBI agent?” I snapped, feeling peeved that she was questioning me.
“Okay, so what has Aiden been up to recently?” She laughed and I looked up at her. “I’m not dumb, Alice. I obviously can guess that your research is about my big bro. You’ve never had to do research for work before. Not that you’ve mentioned to me, anyway.”
“Boo to my easy job.” I laughed and handed my laptop over to Liv. “Do you know who Elizabeth Jeffries is, by any chance?”
“Elizabeth who?” she asked in a confused voice.
“I’m guessing that’s a no.” I sighed. “Do you know if Aiden is dating anyone?”
“Not that he’s told me.” She frowned. “Why? Does it say he’s in a relationship on Facebook?”
“Not exactly.” I shook my head. “But this whore Elizabeth is commenting on his wall.”
“What? A prostitute?” Liv’s eyes widened and she looked down at the computer to see what I was talking about. “How do you know she’s a working girl?”
“Oh,” I said meekly, feeling bad for calling my unknown nemesis and enemy a whore. “I don’t know if she’s really a whore, Liv. Keep up.” I rolled my eyes at her.
“What?” She looked up at me. “You’re confusing me. Is my brother dating a whore or not?”
“Oh my gosh, Liv,” I groaned. “I was looking at Aiden’s profile on Facebook and some girl called Elizabeth commented on his wall saying she can’t wait to see him this weekend, and I called her a whore because I’m jealous and I want to see him this weekend,” I explained feebly. “And if you didn’t have your head in the clouds, you would have understood what I was talking about.”
“Oh, I get it.” She giggled. “She’s not a whore, like she’s hooking up for money, but she’s a whore in that she’s a ho because she’s after your man.”
“I prefer my explanation.” I giggled. “Yours makes me sound like a psycho. I can’t call her a ho because she’s after my man because he’s not my man.”
“Alice,” she groaned, “you’re super confusing me.”
“You’re super confusing me.” I made a face. “Now do you know her or not?”
“I’ve never heard of her before in my life,” Liv said and handed me back the laptop. “Do you want me to call Aiden and see what’s up?”
“I don’t know. Do you think that will be obvious?” I asked her as I gazed down at Aiden’s profile again. “Oh shit,” I groaned out loud as I gave Elizabeth’s comment a like. “I just liked her post on his wall. What should I do?”
“Unlike it quickly,” Liv said as she shook her head. “And then like a different post, so if Aiden gets notifications, he will see you have a like somewhere.”
“Ugh, he’s going to know I was Facebook-stalking him.” I sighed. “I’m such a loser.”
“Alice, it’s fine.” She jumped off of the bed. “I’m sure he won’t think anything of it.”
“You think so?”
“I know so. Guys don’t analyze Facebook likes and comments like we do.” She smiled at me encouragingly. “He most probably won’t even notice that you liked anything.”
“Yeah, I guess so.” I nodded hesitantly, my heart racing in fear. Liv was talking as if she knew what she was talking about, and she most probably thought she knew everything about men now that she was dating Xander, but I knew that she didn’t really know that much. I mean, she hadn’t been dating Xander for very long, and I was the one who had given her all her dating advice up until she started dating him. So essentially, Liv was giving me the advice I would have given her, and in all honesty, I had absolutely no idea what I’d been talking about when I was the one giving advice.