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I nodded, rubbing my palms over the front of my pants I wanted that, too, to kno everyone was "Can you contact us? Let us know?"

"Not yet, but eventually Your dad kno, and when the tirinned, his lids lowering heavily, and there was so devilish about the look, and ityou’ll be dying to see me"

I started to complain, to tell him he was full of it because I had Tyler back now, and Tyler was all I’d ever wanted But Siave me the chance

He reached for me, and the second histurned to gibberish I rationalized it by telling ood-bye, and I had no idea when I would see hiain, if ever, some And also that I was sure, from where the Jeep was parked, that neither Tyler nor ht not have stopped him In fact, I may have slid my arm up, and around his neck And I may have kissed him back, more than once And I’h and it probably wasn’t Simon’s I’d almost bet on that one

"Jerk" But even as I said it, I was trying not to smile, and not to cry at the same time

"Remember what I told you, Kyr You’re as huiving ht on the tip of my nose And then his copper eyes, those eyes I’d noticed the very first time I’d seen him, looked into mine "I do"

EPILOGUE

I WOKE WITH A START, MORE BECAUSE I’D ACTUALLY been sleeping than from any drea

I’d been sleeping

That by itself was disorienting

I glanced around The e the sack" were still s at the fla childhood stories Mostly e Austin It was good to laugh again And especially good to laugh where it concerned Austin

I felt better about the way things had ended up, even between Austin and Cat Tyler said they were good together That they h the rough parts ofHow could I possibly fault them for that all these years later?

Then Tyler had leaned in and confessed--again--how, even as a kid, he’d always had a crush onhiot all flustered and his cheeks flushed and his dimple carved into his cheek It eet, and it had been alht he’d said those words e’d been on the swings, the night I’d returned

The night he toldwe didn’t talk about was ht up at Devil’s Holeafter the fireflies had come But my dad had told me about it