His Naughty Lessons

** Tyler **

"Care to elaborate?" Tyler asked with no small amount of indignant doubt. "What’s so good that could possibly happen between a fling person and a relationship person?"

"That would depend on whether this is a fling or a relationship, of course." The blonde sipped her drink casually. "You’d have to tell me more. Did you see the two of them together? Did they look like a dating couple or nightclub hookups who barely talk to each other?"

Tyler wasn’t sure how he felt about this woman exuding an "I am the expert on this matter" air while most of what she said didn’t seem to make any sense. And it wasn’t like she had any business to dig into all the details of his sister’s love life anyway. But he was out for rants tonight, so he went with it and actually gave the question some serious thought.

Starting from the dinner on Wednesday, up until the camping trip over the weekend, he turned the past four days carefully in his head ... and realized that the answer was not at all what he had expected.

"It didn’t look like either a fling or a relationship." He frowned slightly. "I mean, the two of them had known each other for a long time. And they looked ... normal. Like how they would’ve been if they were still just friends. Heck, I didn’t even realize for days that something had changed."

"Interesting." The pretend expert looked thoughtful. "Maybe they were trying to hide it from you, knowing you’d judge and make a big deal out of nothing."

"I’m not making a big deal out of nothing," Tyler argued. "I’ve seen messages he sent my sister! You have no idea how dirty the things he said are."

"Oh, even more interesting." His companion cocked her head. "If that playboy really is as experienced as you claim he is, I might just be jealous of your sister. She must be having the time of her life with someone who’s got both skills and the heart to show it."