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Seeing the look on o and swore me to secrecy"

Two years, and a thousand times that he’d called me a nagingI’d flirt back, when I was dating Aidan It must have been torture for Sawyer

"If it’s any consolation," Tia said, "he hates me too now Harper and I never should have tried to push you two together But he was co hi, it seemed to me that you had a crush on him, too, whether you admitted it to yourself or not"

"I did," I sniffled

"You’ll get back together," Harper said soothingly "You just need some time"

"I don’t know," Tia said "Kaye’s lost a boyfriend, but Sawyer’s lost a lot irlfriend He’s lost himself The first time he ever felt hile hen he won the mascot position The second time hen you went to find him at the beach, Kaye Not that I think you can really understand what low self-estee you princess"

Harper kicked water on Tia’s bare leg "That was the wrong thing to say"

"She "

"Well," Tia ether with Sawyer just because you feel sorry for him He would hate you when he found out, you would resent hi run But if you really love hio just because you’re both stubborn"

"He doesn’t want me back," I assured her "You didn’t see the way he was looking at me"

"We have seen the way he looks at you," Harper interjected "That’s our whole point"

I tookthe wall I listened to the burbling fountain, Harper and Tia’s hushed conversation, uht:

What if Angelica hadn’t intercepted a note frorade science class? He would never have guessed I liked him I’d hidden it well And the next week, I would have e, , but they weren’t so bad that I couldn’t get over theht my eye at the movies on the weekend

Aidan wouldn’t have asked o, I would have been available He would have asked me out instead

I would have said no

He would have worked on inity with him instead of Aidan