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Turning my head away, I shove the disco, but my sister is pretty daet me to talk
“What’s her name?” Candice asks
I sigh, adht the inevitable? My sister and Iup she was one of my best friends, and she has always been on iven me “important life advice”, as she called it, and see around us, including our family, fell apart
“Her name’s Hayley,” I answer
“Do you like her?”
I shrug, unsure of how to answer this I’ve never been one to ‘like’ a girl Sure, I had Rachel for over a year, but ere never a couple She knew froeirls, and she was allowed to see other guys When anted to get together it ith sex in mind, but otherere both free to do whatever or whom ever anted It worked for me Until now
“I care about her,” I reply “But it’s complicated, and I’m pretty sure I ruined my chances with her”
Snorting, Candice says, “Life is complicated, Cameron, we know that But you won’t knohat your chances are with her if you don’t at least try again”
I rubthe exhaustion frohtto happen since we can’t even get being just friends right”
“Why? What happened between you two?”
I steelto react after I tell her how I reacted when Hayley toldto be pretty
I fill her in, starting with how Hayley and Iwith last night’s kiss in the alley I don’t leave out a single detail, not even the way I reacted when I found out about Hayley’s daughter When I’ht is lifted from my shoulders, only to be replaced by another The kind that co I keep inside, the hardest of which is what lies behind the closed door at the end of our hallway upstairs
I slowly look back at Candice Her face is soh to see thein the depths of her brown eyes
“Wow,” she breathes “That’s a lot to take in, but I’irl so poorly, and all because you found out she has a little girl? How do you think that made her feel?”
I hangdejected and pissed with myself all at once “I know, I know,” I concede “I acted like a complete asshole, and I wish I hadn’t, but I totally freaked out, alright? I’ined, especially atinvolved with so”
“So what changed?” Candice asks
“I just, I don’t know Like I said, I care about her, a lot, and those feeeks e didn’t talk and then pretended to be friends was torture I hated every goddamn minute of it”