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I nod at her, fight the urge to kiss her.
“I’ll see you tonight.”
I head straight from Parks’ to Jordan’s.
Ring the doorbell. She buzzes me in. She’s shitty as hell, but she lets me in anyway.
“Hey,” I say, closing the door behind me.
She folds her arms over her chest. “Hi.”
“You okay?” I slip my arms around her waist. Don’t really know why? I just do it and she lets me. She’s so much easier than Magnolia is. Gets over shit quickly, doesn’t make me work for it — something I kind of like about working for it though.
“No.” She rolls her eyes.
I lick my bottom lip. “I’m sorry.”
“You didn’t call me,” she tells me.
That’s true, I didn’t.
“You didn’t call me either,” I tell her.
Which I was grateful for. Couldn’t have juggled them both last night.
Jordan looks up at me, eyes big and worried.
“Were you with her?”
I swallow, nod. “Yes.”
She glares up at me, holds me tighter.
“She needed me,” I tell her.
“I needed you!” she yells.
“Why?” I frown at her. “For what?”
“For what?” She blinks like I’m an idiot. “I’m your girlfriend. Do you know how embarrassing it was to stand there watching your ex falling all over you and you’re just lapping it up?”
“Jords.” I give her a look. “She’s my oldest friend in the world.”
She looks at me, obstinate. “She’s the love of your life.”
My jaw sets and I don’t know what to say.
She said it, not me.
I don’t correct her either, know that I probably should, and it flags me as interesting that she doesn’t even flinch when I don’t.
I shake my head. “I can’t explain it—”
“Try.” She shrugs, unmoved. She crosses her arms and I sigh.
“We have so much history. Too much—” I catch her eye to soften the blow, try to make it sound like having too much history with Magnolia Parks isn’t the mounted deer I’ll hang in the hallway of who I am, like loving her isn’t the first thing you see when you walk through the door of me.
“Just… there are parts of it all that are catching up to us, and it’s hard for her,” I tell her, catch her eyes, give her a look I know makes Parks weak at the knees. Give it a go here, see if it puts me in the clear. “For both of us.”
