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I stopped licking my cone. “Really?”
“Yeah.”
“Are you sure?”
“Of course I’m sure,” he said, taking a large bite out of the side of his chocolate ice cream. “And if it makes you feel better, it was actually her idea.”
“What?”
“Don’t get me wrong, I wish I thought of it myself, but she realized I didn’t have a date before I did. Anyway, she said she’d love you to come.”
“Wow.”
“In fact, she said you were the only woman in my life that she actually likes.”
I laughed.
“And she seemed to think I’d behave better if you were there.”
“I don’t know about that.”
“So will you come?”
I filled my mouth with ice cream to buy myself time.
“It would mean a lot to me,” he said.
I would never turn him down, but I relished the semblance of control that being hesitant seemed to give me.
“Well?”
While the pathetic little girl in me did a cartwheel, I shrugged. “Sure. If it means that much to you.”
“Thanks, Lucy. It does.”
I licked around the base of my cone and got the weird inkling that Aiden was transfixed by it. “What?”
“Nothing.”
I lowered my cone and looked around. Everyone else was minding their own business from the people in suits having ice cream cones as their one reward all day to the kids hanging out with their skateboards, staring at their phones while they ate in silence.
“Can I ask you something?” I asked.
“Of course,” Aiden said, sitting up straight with chocolate lips.
“As a friend.”
“Sure.”
“And I want you to be honest with me, no matter what.”
“Always.”
I sighed. “I’m not some kind of rebound for you, am I?”
“What?”
I shrugged. “I don’t mean to be lame, but the thought crossed my mind and-”
