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Every device in the room buzzed at once

I turned e with a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach

Tonight was the night I was going to confessI lovedto jeopardize their trust had been eating at s right And now…

“Let’s get started Topher can read Ash’s notes later,” To me from my miserable reverie

“Right Okay” I sat in the midcentury knockoff chair beside the sofa and cleared , “I, Asher Fitzgibbons, acting secretary of the Script Club, hereby call to order this ht There are three pressing iteer crisis in the upstairs bathroohbor on the next block asked if one of us ht-year-old son That’s a no for me Hot dad or not, that child is a small demon And C, the roommate ad has been posted We’ll need to be ready to interview appropriate candidates”

“As the lone resident of the first floor, the plunger issue is all yours, boys” George snorted “I’ either, and as for the roomie, where did you post the ad?”

“U directory I think”

My friends treated me to a three-way puzzled stare

“You think?” George repeated

“Uh, no…I’m certain, but no one has responded yet,” I replied quickly

“Okay Well, Holden, Ash, and I can chip in for a plunger,” To at Caltech this su the de?”

Conversation hu to the hardware store tomorrow before the discussion turned to the kid’s latest prank involving silly-stringing random mailboxes shut

I nodded absently, tuning everyone out as I considered ot this off my chest I could wait up for Topher or ht have an audience, but maybe I deserved one Maybe I—

My iPad slid offwith a thump Three heads turned my way

“Asher, are you okay?”

I juuilty! I did it and I’m sorry”

George raised a brow “Sorry for what?”

“Everything I can’t even claiht He’s very handsome and I couldn’t help myself I know that makes ive me”

Toe and Holden shared a bewildered sideways glance