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She bites back a smile. “Good.”
“No talking,” I tell her. “Fifteen and go—” I say and lean in towards her, staring wide eyed, trying to make her laugh.
“What are you doing?” Georgia, the girl Henry brought with him, asks.
“Oh—” My brother rolls his eyes when he appears behind her. “Ignore them. They’ve done it for as long as they’ve been together.”
“Oh!” She nods. “Are you together?”
“No,” Magnolia and I say quickly in unison.
“Well...” Henry muses.
“No,” Magnolia says firmly, brushing past me and back to everyone else.
I smack Henry on the arm and whisper, “Thanks, man,” before following after her because I have all my life and old habits die fucking hard.
She sits down on the one-seater couch but moves over so there’s enough room for me. Barely.
It’s the closest our bodies have been since we slept together and it got all fucked up.
I nudge her with my elbow.
She peeks over at me, gives me a small smile that feels like a secret.
Wonder how long it’ll take for us to get to the place where I can just throw my arm around her, let her be mine out loud, not just inside my head.
“Where’s Jules?” I ask her under my breath.
“Oh, um.” She pulls a little face. “I think we’re…” She cuts her fingers over her neck.
My eyes go wide. Done? Holy shit. What the fuck?
“Really?” I try not to sound too excited. She nods. “What happened?”
She shrugs like it’s a mystery to her.
“Just… nothing. It just — you know. It didn’t. We…” she trails. “We weren’t—”
She looks over at me, mouth pursed.
Us, is what she’s not saying. They weren’t us.
I nod once. Grab that soaring kite heart of mine and bolt it to the floor of my apartment.
“And where is your girlfriend?” she asks, looking around.
“Out. With friends.” I swat my hand. “Are you okay?” I ask Parks as I shift a tiny bit closer to her.
She stares at me, eyes big and a bit nervous. “I’m okay.”
I nod once.
Jo passes me a wine and tosses an arm around Taura while he stares down my brother. Henry’s eyes flick from Jonah’s to Tausie’s and then he slips his arm around the girl he brought.
Fuck. This is getting messy.
“Henry was just telling us the weirdest spot he’s had sex,” Taura announces with pinched eyes.
