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"They hung out here the first few days, but I didn't notice as many today. Maybe they realized they weren't going to catch anything exciting here after all. Too bad for them they didn't wait until tonight."
Oh crap, I just made it sound like I was expecting something exciting to happen between us.
I was about to explain myself and clear up the innuendo when Drew's eyes locked in on mine and he said, "Yeah, good thing."
And I wished so badly I could read his mind right then. But since I wasn’t related to Edward Cullen, I said, "What do you want to do now that you're here?"
Drew took in my appearance, seeming to notice for the first time that I was wearing pajamas.
"You were just going to bed, weren't you?"
I looked down at my pink-and-gray checked pajamas. "I've actually had these on for hours, but yeah, I was about to go to bed."
Drew looked like he was about to stand, and while I knew heshouldgo, I didn't want him to. So I placed a hand on his arm to stop him. "I'm really not that tired anymore. I just had no reason to stay up before you came over. Now I'm wide awake."
"Do you wanna watch a movie?" he suggested.
"What are you in the mood for?"
"Whatever you wanna watch…anything butFinding Your Soulmate, that is."
Yeah, I didn't feel like watching him kiss other girls anymore either.
"How about you pick one while I pop the popcorn?"
A few minutes later, I came back with a bowl of microwaved popcorn. I set the bowl between us.
"You can sit closer," Drew said.
"Are you sure?" Hadn't he been telling everyone all week that nothing was going on between us?
Drew looked confused. "I thought I made things pretty clear on Sunday night."
"I guess I got confused with everything that happened the next day."
"That didn't change anything for me."
I scratched at a spot on my pajama pants. "I just wasn't sure."
"Why?" Drew furrowed his brow as if trying to figure me out.
I cleared my throat. "I watched your interviews. You said yourself nothing was going on between us. And then when you didn’t even try to contact me…” I shrugged. "I guess it just reminded me too much of what happened the last time I thought you might like me."
His Adam’s apple shifted. "I'm not going to avoid you for seven years.” After drawing in a deep breath, Drew lifted his gaze back to me, his eyes haunted. "Leaving you after Aiden's death has only been my biggest regret for the last seven years."
Then why was he doing it again? Leaving me behind all to save some stupid show.
He seemed to sense that I didn't believe him.
"You know that's why I went onFinding Your Soulmatein the first place, right?"
"What?"
"I'd turned them down for years, but when your wedding announcement showed up in my mailbox one day, I knew I needed to move on since you obviously had."
"But you never even tried to date me," I insisted, suddenly frustrated that he'd let me go through with marrying Nolan without even trying to say anything to me. I could have avoided making the biggest mistake of my life if I thought for a second that Drew wanted me.
"Every time I got the nerve up to contact you, you'd just made a new relationship Facebook-official. I figured I was the furthest thing from your mind."
