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“Colasses! Tall, dark, and delicious Ele Hetero, as far as you know To top it all off, you’re both nuts about each other”

“As friends,” she pointed out

“You’ve heard the saying that ends in with benefits, right?”

“Oh, no” Lola gave a veheht adore me, but I literally turn his world upside down I can’t help it, and I don’t do it intentionally Well, that’s not always true” She shrugged “Thing is, I’uy The two do not ”

Maxi eyed her speculatively Perhaps even encouragingly…

“I’ht is arranging the cans in his pantry so all the labels face forward—that’s when he’s not trying to invent a new theory of relativity or so”

“Total dud?”

“Not at all, actually” She sipped, then said, “He’s very bright and witty He’s just… a little nerdy, you know? Though in a very intriguing way It’s totally fascinating how his brain is always churning”

Alex was aa single si the for been the president of every geeky club iinable And yet… she’d been enthralled with hi his h she’d had no idea at the age of seven what that was all about

Maybe it was the fact that he see she knew that had caused her to latch on to him There really was no clear explanation They’d just instantly clicked And she wasn’t one to question their solid friendship

“Anyway,” she told Maxi, certain there was a healthy dose of conviction in her eyes, “he’s not the type to get wild and crazy Unless I dare him to”

“So dare him”

A snicker fell from her lips “I definitely would not be siets a kick out ofa wrench in his works froe in that area But I wouldn’t want to send hi? I couldn’t fathoe”

“Okay, then,” Maxi conceded, albeit reluctantly, if the hesitation in her s so Not too ht?”

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