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I wish I hadn’t co to knowwhat’s the story with you and Kavinsky?”

I know she’s been co her drink, casual as can be, but she’s waiting forI’ve heard and know about Gen, she is a mean drunk Not that I’ve ever personally experienced it, but I’ve heard things There are stories

I wet uess that’s the story”

Emily waves this off like whatever Peter says doesn’t really count “We want to hear it fro How did this even happen?” She leans closer, like we are girlfriends

When I hesitate, when my eyes dart toward Genevieve, she smiles and rolls her eyes “It’s okay, you can say, Lara Jean Peter and I are over I don’t know if he told you this, but I’m actually the one who broke up with him, so”

I nod “That’s what he said” That is not what he said, but it’s what I already knew

“So when did you guys get together?” She tries to sound offhand, but I knowto catch

“Pretty recently,” I say

“How recently?” she presses

I s “Right before school started,” I tell her Isn’t that what Peter and I decided the story was going to be?

Genevieve’s eyes go bright and , but it’s too late It’s hard not to get caught up in her spell She’s the kind of person you want to like you You know she can be cruel; you’ve seen her be cruel But when her eyes are on you, and she’s paying attention to you, you want it to last Her beauty is part of it, but there’s so that draws you in I think it’s her transparency—everything she thinks or feels is written all over her face, and even if it wasn’t, she’d say it anyway, because she says what she thinks, without thinking first

I can see why Peter has loved her for so long

“I think it’s adorable,” Genevieve says, and then the girls start talking about soet tickets for and I just sit there, glad I don’t have to talk any with the cupcakes back at ho worse than a dry cupcake

The girls o to the bathrooback leather ar to Gabe There’s nowhere for me to sit; my spot on the couch has been taken Nohat?

I stand there for a second and then I go for it: I do what a girl in love with Peter would do I do what Genevieve would do I htful place

Peter yelps in surprise “Hey,” he says, coughing on his beer

“Hey,” I say Then I tweak hiirl do in a black-and-white ives et nervous—tweaking a boy on the nose is roht? Then, out of the corner ofto Emily and stalks out of the rooin the kitchen She’s speaking to hient voice, and she reaches out and touches his aro

I’m so mesmerized I don’t even notice when Lucas Krapf coht “Hey, Lara Jean”

“Hi!” I’m relieved to see a faainst the dining roo about?”

“Who even knows?” I say I smile a secret smile Hopefully, it’s about