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My heart stuttered and then sped up I thought about the way he’d looked at ht "I don’t know, Syd I’m…" I was afraid to open myself up, to expose myself to all that hope

She touched my arm "Just don’t stress out about it, okay? And if you feel up to it, give it a chance Give it one shot Use your time alone with hi to co You till have all day today and to ca because ant to" Her sly grin said otherwise Footsteps sounded fro the stairs She hopped off the stool and then leaned in, kissingas she danced off toward the stairway Sitting there, I stared into an to race Sweat dotteddeep breaths before the overwhel could take hold and spread like a virus

When I heard Kyler’s deep voice, I looked up and closed my eyes In a lot of ways, I was a coward And I didn’t like that aboutus a chance when I wasn’t even sure Tanner would be on board

But there’d been last night, and there’d been the ti to hiht I saw in the way he looked at h into what he was actually saying I opened my eyes, I decided that I could at least try

I would try

Tanner

I nor that Kyler and Sydney’s ione, Andrea and I had the whole place to ourselves

And I totally wasn’t co to buy Kyler a drink, or maybe one for Sydney--for whichever was the mind behind their deviously brilliant plan

The two of the Andrea some space She was downstairs for the , and neither was I I’d ploppedchannels for a while when she reappeared in the roolanced over at her Her red hair was pulled up in so the pretty flush creeping across her cheeks

Fingers clasped together in front of her, she shifted her weight fro just above her knees She was barefoot, and I noticed that the paint on her nails was a different color than before They were now a pale blue

I had never, in my entire life, noticed a chick’s toenail polish until now