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“You never thought about being an us?” He gently prodded her for more information

“I just never went there I mean you were always the built-in best friend “

He risked a glance over at her “But you sensed so”

“I’d have to be dead not to” She huffed

He released the breat

h he’d been holding

“Is that what this was all about?” she said

“I know you think we’re totally different But I wanted to show you we can exist in both our worlds happily I’ed

“Wow,” she said

“Wow bad, or good?” His stomach twisted like a soft-freeze ice-cream cone

“Good I think Is this a trial run?”

“It can be whatever you want it to be, Demi”

“That’s what I want”

“Yeah?” He grinned

“Any man who’d do all of this, not tell, but show ot” Her shter “So, what are the terms of this weekend? And don’t say whatever I want them to be, because that’ll irritate the piss out of me”