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Shit

Shit

I’ve been flirting with Sulli Every tiuy, I’ve cut in…and teased her, messed with her hair and shoved her playfully

I’ve flirted with her

Will Rochester, her ex-boyfriend, told , and I did back off my interactions with her because I didn’t want to ruin her first relationship I couldn’t tell her why I was being standoffish, and when she found out, that almost cost my friendship with Sulli

She broke up with him instead

“Shit,” I mutter out loud

Why has this taken so long for nize? My brain…I’ve just shut off the possibility that I could be flirting Maybe because I didn’t want to stop, and now it feels like I have to

SFO has toldat me to finally see that I have been

Banks sinks down on the mattress beside me

I look over with reddened eyes “This is all uy I’ve screith that—with her”

He squeezes my shoulder in comfort “You’re not some Wicked Witch, Akara It wasn’t out of cruelty”

“Is jealousy any better?” I ask him

Banks shrugs “She’d understand”

“Maybe she shouldn’t,” I uard—”

Banks shovesbed My ass hits the floor and I look up at him like he’s nuts

He’s s this stupid crooked smile

And I start laughing “Fuck you again”

“Fuck you thrice” He bites down on the toothpick “If you try to beat yourself up again, I’ll just shove you harder”

I stay on the floor, resting my forearms on my knees “What would I do without you, man?”

“You wouldn’t be on the ground, for one”

I let out another laugh And I exhale,to do, Nine? I’o Or what I even feel…

It’s all confusion

Quietly, I say, “So she doesn’t recognize come-ons”

“At least she’s not that naïve,” Banks says Motioning to uy whipped it out” His sabout her

Yeah I nod tensely “You’re the right guy, Banks” My muscles feel taut “She likes you—she told me”

He doesn’t seem that surprised Just concerned For me