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He stared at me, stone-faced

“Not for being with Liv I can’t apologize for that” I dru the side of my bottle “But I should’ve told you how I felt about her She’s not a dirty little secret, and I shouldn’t have treated her like one”

“No, you shouldn’t have” Grant gave aze He shook his head and stared up at the ceiling

“I didn’t realize howup It never crossedthere forbrother, and it was selfish of me to not even think about how all that would affect you”

“You’re right” He stared at rimaced “I spilled it all to Mom, too” He ripped the label off the bottle in his hands “I have a feeling I’ll be getting extra helpings of cookies froirl troubles again I didn’t say it was about Liv specifically, but she eventually figured it out”

“She’s not exactly subtle She sprung surprise invites to come over to the house on Liv and me”

“I know” His lips thinned into a hard line “Da brother”

My eyebrows pinched together

“I already talked to Liv and Moolden boy” He slapped my shoulder

Shaking le it to make sure I’d heard him correctly “Just like that?”

He chuckled and took another sip of his beer “Not just like that at all Trust ood few days where I wanted to beat the crap out of you” As he stared into er still in his “But I had a long talk with Motime”

“Stuff like ets all the attention, takes over the family with his cost-and tiirl you’ve had a crush on since you were ten?”

He nodded “Soh it’s been since I was nine You have to admit, I did like her first”

“She was nine when you met I was fifteen Everyone would have been a hell of a lot more concerned if I’d fallen in love with her back then”

“You’re not wrong, and I can’t say the fact that she was the one girl I knew you liked who’d agreed to date me didn’t play the tiniest part in why she stuck in my head for so many years”