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I sit up, because lying down for a talk like this doesn’t seeht

“Where are you going?” he asks

“Nowhere I just …” rows hot “Continue hat you were saying”

“You’re going to be in a new place You’ll probably get hooing to keepto take is a bad day or two to ht hos happen I saith Tripp and Cassidy”

“You can’t compare e have to what your brother had with Cass”

“Maybe I guess what I’ to say, Blaire, is that I don’t want to hold you back I want you to go to the city and chase your dreams and when you catch them, I want you to run like hell”

“And I can’t do that if we’re talking every day?”

“You can But it’ll be hard”

My cheeks bloo my face as I pace the small space beside the bed

“I knew it I knew you were breaking up with od I’m such an idiot” I fish around in the dark for my clothes, which are strewn around the shack

“Whoa, whoa, whoa” He cliently arounddown to deposit a slow kiss “Never”

“I don’t understand what you’re getting at” I pressin the steady thrum of his heart

“You and me, Blaire, we’re so much more than labels and all that nonsense,” he says “I’ve told you that from day one”

It’s true We’ve never referred to each other as boyfriend or girlfriend or high school sweethearts or any of that Our closeness has spanned beyond anything a label could ever define We’ve always just been … us

No questions, no doubts: just Wyatt and Blaire

“I want the world for you,” he says “But you can’t have the world if you’ve got one leg straddling New York and the other one back in Whiskey Springs”

“Maybe that’s not for you to decide”