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Trent sighs, at a loss

There is no cal he calms himself

All Trent can do is lay it out and all I can do is hope we don’t end as quickly as we began

Trent does as he’s asked “Deo”

“Fuck,over his head and folding behind his neck

He blows a harsh breath into the air, and s feel the loss

“Hoas I supposed to tell you? You’ve—”

“Wanted her since before you had her and told you all about it?” he shouts “Yeah, I fuckin’ have”

Whoa, what?!

“It o years ago, and yes, I should have told you when it happened, but you stopped talking to her after everything with your dad, and the threat from—”

“Watch it,” Nico warns

Trent’s body sags, and he tries to reason with him “I didn’t know she was still inside you, man, and I didn’t realize where the two of you were headed I thought you dancing with Miranda would have—”

He cuts off, his eyes darting to Krista and then back to me

“No” Nico shakes his head, running his hands through his hair “Are you for real, man?”

“Nic,” he says quietly, walking toward him “It’s not—”

“Not what?” Nico shouts, punching into the crossed metal of the fence on the side of Trent’s head “Not what I think? Then ould o behinddrama between us? And this on top of the bullshit you just stood here and fuckin’ told me? Let’s hear it, asshole How the fuck is it I’m supposed to take this?”

“Trent” Krista starts forward, and this ti about?”

Trent’s face grows taut “I asked Demi’s dance coach to switch us, make Nico her partner and ht have already planned to do it herself” Trent glances fro to speed up the inevitable”

“Inevitable?” Nico laughs, but there isn’t a hint of huirl—”

“She wasn’t!” Trent explodes “That’s the thing you kept forgetting, Nic!”

Krista gasps as my body stiffens