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“Thanks a lot, Liv Now he’ll never let me live it down”

I grabbed a handful of Twizzlers fro toopen and honest Pop so to me I headed to my room to peel them off

The white string lights aroundlinedup pictures from the previous summer Almost every available surface was covered in a memory, and these were just from the last year The collection of shoeboxes filled with pictures under rown, a box for every few years

I’d stolen every picture I could from our old house before Colraphs There was so the physical photos iners over her terrible doctor’s handwriting, usually scribbled when I’d cornered her after getting the pictures printed

Opening ap between rabbed the edge, slipped it out, and flipped it over

It was froo I’d been a bridesmaid on the arm of Ford He and Cols had been off at the wedding They’d been off for a while with those two, but it wasn’t like I’d been

around either of theht wasn’t about questions circling Ford and my brother

I’d looped h Ford’s as the doors to the cere and wide as he’d stared into my eyes For a split second I’d been able to pretend we hadn’t been assigned to be together for the ceremony and reception, had pretended he’d picked

For so many major one Standing in that same spot, I’d blinked back my tears as he’dmore than friendship between us, and now I didn’t even have that I dropped the picture on the bed and wrapped my arms around my waist

The horrified look on his face when Colm had almost spotted us should have beento cheer me up, and I’d thrown myself at hiently, toidea Stupid! I sainsteh-definition detail? Maybe I’d study it in medical school

Hockey season was the only justifiable, consistent ti to feel like a psycho, puck-bunny stalker I knew his stats for the season, which was shaping up to be his best ever Watching Philly play wasn’t really a choice when Declan, Heath, and Emmett also played for the teaaze drifted to the a my head, I picked up my towel rushed into the bathroom and jumped into the shower

Wiping away the steam on the mirror, I stared atames? I could pretend it was just to watch Col it since Ford joined the Philly teaht him out in the net, piled with pads, every second he was on screen

I ran ht about that kiss, the way his hands had felt on my waist and how my heart had nearly leaped out of my chest when I’d stood on my toes to taste him The moment had stretched on for an eternity I’d compared every kiss I’d had since then to the intensity of it None had measured up, but the sadness and pain of what had come after always tainted those memories

My skin broke out into goose bu around me, and the fact that he’d disappeared from my life spoke volumes With my torapped around myself, I stepped into the hallway and tiptoed into rabbed a roolanced up and eyed my dresser Tucked inside was another one of oing to do it

Openingh burst out ofto ift from him back ere still friends Had we even been friends? Or was I just the little sister he hu me on my way?