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bsp; Grant: You’re out with Liv

It wasn’t a question Of course he’d be followingwith their phones, it was a

Me: Ran into her

Grant: Did she say anything about the date I invited her on?

He’d asked her out again? I squeezed h school crush that blew over? My gaze cut to Liv It was the same kind I’d sworn hers would be for etting hurt?

She ended the call and tapped her phone against her pal to me, her lips disappeared into herto s them

“He asked ain” Her neck strained, and her eyes filled with that saht about hiolden wisps up into the air, she looked to me like I’d have the answers “I…I don’t knohat to do”

“I know” I ran the backs ofmy chin

“This is all my fault I didn’t think, after all this time, he still saw me like that”

I closed the gap between us and ranher cheek “How could he not? You’re i about”

Her fingers tightened around the front of my coat “I feel the same way about you”

Our eyes locked, and that low undercurrent I’d been fighting sliced through all the buzzing distractions around us as it all faded away

Her breath fanned acrossit fro the back of her neck Her soft strands ran throughme to take a sample Wet, full, beautiful Her eyelashes fluttered, and she stared deep into my eyes

Dipping my head, I captured her lips She parted theainst the wall behind her, I bracketed her between ainst her warm, sweet softness