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If that wasn’t the ood date, I didn’t knoas

Ever since our senior proret was that I’d never sat Holley down and spoken to her Back then, ere nothing ht we knew everything and could never be wrong

Ironically, we couldn’t have been

After that night, when she’d caught h school bully, I’d left her alone She’d deo near her and ordered ain, and I’d listened to her

Eighteen-year-old Sebastian had done exactly what she wanted, thinking she’d co by respecting her wishes and giving her the space she so obviously needed after I’d hurt her

Twenty-seven-year-old Sebastian regretted every moment of that

I wish I’d had the confidence to make her listen I wish I’d had the sense of self to sit her down and tell her what I needed to tell her even without caring whether she wanted to hear it or not

Now, for the first tiht

I was ho the shit out of Holley until she did just that—listened to ht

Until she learned that thanks to the darkness of that room and two red dresses that were barely discernible from one another, I was on the other side of a severe case of mistaken identity

That, that night, I hadn’t meant to kiss Iris

I’d meant to kiss HolleyCHAPTER FOUR – HOLLEYrule four: at least try toyou aren’t telling me?”

I jerkedup books for the new book club “What?”

Saylor was standing in the doorway, her scarf wrapped around the lower half of her face, and she cocked her thue bunch of flowers out here on the sidewalk?”

I frowned “What flowers?”

She rolled her eyes, an action that seereen with jealousy, and then wedged the doorstop under the door

Brrr

I wished she hadn’t It was one degree fro this old store up

Wasn’t that a waste of our money?

“These flowers”