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I opened the door "I have to go find a sparkly pink purse, Britt I don’t have tiet the hint and leave

She laughed and walked to the door "You will never find a sparkly pink purse on your own For once in your life, you need me, Krit Corbin Come on, I’ll show you where to find that purse"

Of course Britt would knohere to look for the purse Why hadn’t I thought of that? Slightly relieved, I started down the stairs after her The h,her s to her talk--they hat I looked forward to all day If Britt hadn’t shown up and started sucking usted withyour bike?" she asked

No The last girl who had been on my bike had ruined it for me with anyone else I didn’t like the idea of anyone other than Blythe being wrapped around me when I rode "Let’s take your car," I said, and walked toward her silver Caoing to the party Hearing Krit and so at it when I went to his apartment earlier hadthe sounds hesex made me feel funny I admitted to myself that I was insanely jealous of whoever that was screa his name

His text that he wouldn’t be able to have dinner withIt wasn’t like he had said he would be there I hadn’t wanted to respond to hi h He was being nice, so I couldn’t be rude I had typedon so simple Friendlike

I was sure that Trisha had told him I would be at the party, and so he would expect to seeout noould also be rude Trisha had been so nice today and had even refused to let me buy my meal She insisted that she had invitedI reached over and picked up the gift I had wrapped in glitter paper It had taken me an hour this afternoon at the toy store to decide on soirl I had never met I didn’t want to arrive empty-handed to her birthday party

Afterkit It even had supplies so she could paint the stones with designs of her own I would have loved soht thing for a nine-year-old girl

A tap on mystartled me, and I turned to see the porcelain perfect face of Amanda Hardy Her friendly smile eased my anxiety solad you came Trisha said she’d invited you She really enjoyed lunch today I’ to the next lunch¸" Amanda said as I closed the car door behind lanced back at the large house "It was really nice of her to invite me"

"You’re Krit’s friend He doesn’t have many of thoseof the female kind, that is In all honesty, ere curious, but now that Trisha has spent tirown attached to you"

I had to clear this up before alked into that house and Krit showed up "Oh, he’s not attached tonice I’uy," I explained If Krit walked into this party and everyone acted like I was anything other than his friend, he ain I didn’t want that

Aetting it

"No, I mean it Really, I swear, he is just a friend"

A, when a silver Ca a little too fast and doing a perfect U-turn to fit into the last parking space I glanced back at A Apparently, she agreed that they had been driving a little too fast in a driveway

The driver’s door opened, and two long legs exited before the rest of a tall model-thin body ca, but I couldn’t focus because the sight of Krit getting out of the passenger door wearing a pair of sunglasses and looking like the sex god he obviously was took my breath away Not just because he wore his jeans better than any man on Earth or that he reminded me of every childhood fantasy of a bad boy with his aviator sunglasses on, but because he was getting out of a car with her I never saw hiirl twice, but I’d seen him with her before The first time I’d been in his apart in his apartaze off hi smile she wore on her face said that yes, she was in fact who I had heard screa him to do it harder My face heated, and I turned to look at the house I had to deal with this It was life as Krit’s friend

"Blythe?" Krit’s voice called my name, and I tensed up Crappity, crap, crap I didn’t want to talk to him just yet My stomach still felt sick and knotted up I was sure my face was red too Why wasto be embarrassed about I hated the fact that I acted like an idiot in situations I wasn’t familiar with

A to salvage this friendship with Krit, I had to turn around and act like nothing rong Like seeing hiirl I had heard hi a smile onto my face, I turned back to look at hi purposeful strides, like he was afraid I was about to bolt and he was getting toin his hand caught irly and out of place with hi here?’ he asked, and that snappedhere stepping too far? I should have asked him if this was okay I assumed he wouldn’t mind, but he hadn’t asked oddess with him instead

"Uh, Trisha invited me We had lunch today I, uh" He still looked upset This was bad I had"I’m sorry I should have asked you if you were okay with ht your sister would have told you I didn’t think"

Krit ran his hand through his hair as the frustrated look on his face only intensified I needed to leave

I turned to Aift to her "Take this in, will you? Tell Trisha I said thanks so ot that I can’tfor one of etic s the tears suddenly clogging irl as now clinging to Krit’s arm asked in a bored tone

Yet another situation for Krit he hadn’t been prepared for He kept me neatly in a certain part of his life He didn’t invite ht about hihbor Uh, okay I’o," I replied, unable to look at her