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Goodnight, bae. I love you.
Love you too, Lydia.
Now that I feel more at peace, I close my eyes so I can go to sleep. Like clockwork, another text comes through right when I start to drift off. I grumble to myself until I see that it’s a text from Felicity.
Excited for tomorrow <3
Me too…
***
It’s 12:00 on the dot, the exact time Felicity said she would arrive, when there is a knock on our front door. Luckily, my parents are out to lunch with my grandparents and neither Marcus nor Morgan have made it home from their post-homecoming activities, so there is currently no one home to ask questions.
I open the door to find Felicity standing there in tight high-waisted jeans and a green hoodie. Even in a simple outfit like this, she looks drop-dead gorgeous. I still can’t believe she’s standing on my front porch. I spent years being told by my friends and family that I could get whoever I wanted, but I never thought there was a possibility that whoever included Felicity.
I step off to the side and motion toward the hallway with my hand. “Come in.”
As soon as Felicity is inside, she looks around as though she is searching for something. “It’s quiet in here.”
I can’t stop the goofy grin from coming onto my face as I take a tentative step closer to her. “Yeah. There’s no one else home.”
“Oh.” Felicity’s smile drops slightly. “I thought you said your brother would be home.”
Is that disappointment I sense in her voice? It can’t be, right? Why would she be disappointed that we’re alone? Then, it hits me. “You’re nervous, aren’t you? You obviously don’t want anyone to find out, but it’s nerve-racking that it’s just the two of us here, isn’t it?”
Felicity pushes out a long breath. “That’s exactly it. You scare me.”
“I do?”
Felicity laughs as if this is a dumb question. “Of course you do. You’re hot, athletic, and nice. That’s the ultimate trifecta. It’s intimidating.”
“You think I’m hot?”
Another laugh. “Could you stop asking such silly questions? Of course I think you’re hot. I swear your family hit some very insane, and kind of unfair, genetic lottery.”
“Should we go up to my room? I have a feeling my brother and sister will be getting back any minute.”
“Your room sounds great.”
We are both silent as we make our way upstairs, and when I close the door behind us, I’m overcome with nervousness. “So…”
“So…” Felicity repeats before biting her bottom lip. God, that’s sexy.
I sit down in my bed and pat the spot next to me. “Do you want to talk about anything?”
Instead of sitting down, Felicity floats around my room. “It’s hard to say it out loud.”
Wait… if it’s hard for her to say it out loud… Maybe that means… I jump from the bed and run over to where my backpack is sitting by my desk. I rummage through it until I find the notes from my mystery girl. “It was you, wasn’t it?” I say as I pull them out.
“What was me?”
Before I can answer, there’s a knock on the door that startles me so much that I drop the notes.
“Who wants hangover pizza?” Marcus shouts as he opens the door to my room. He stops short when he sees Felicity standing there. “Sorry. I didn’t realize you had company.”
“Felicity is here to work on a chemistry project,” I answer quickly. “We’d love to come but probably should keep working.”
“There’s always time for a pizza break though, right?”
