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“Fuck. How didn’t we know this?”
“I didn’t want you to. I was ashamed. Disgusted. It wasn’t until I was older that I even really understood… and by then, I couldn’t deal with it. I also knew that it would kill Ace. He did everything for us, and yet that shit was still happening.”
“Does Hadley know?” Remi asks, her soft voice making my heart constrict, not to mention hearing her name.
“I haven’t told her specifically, no, but she knows something happened.”
“Fucking hell. No wonder you’re so screwed up,” Conner says.
“Yeah, thanks for that, bro.”
“I’m kidding, I’m kidding. You know I love you beyond words.”
“Yeah, yeah, so you keep telling me.”
“While you two share the love, I’m gonna go…” Remi pushes from my lap and disappears out the door to find Ace.
Both Conner and I fall back on the couch and put our feet up on the coffee table.
“Well, that was depressing for a Sunday morning.”
“Try living with it.”
“Fuck, I didn’t mean…”
“Con, it’s fine. Well, it’s not. It’s fucked-up, but it is what it is. It’s done. It’s in the past. It’s time to embrace it for what it is and try to stop it from ruining the future.”
“The future? You going for it at Colton U?”
“Yeah, I think I am. It felt right, ya know? Like it could really be home. What about you?”
“I guess I’d better go pull out my Colton application,” he jokes.
“Seriously, what are you thinking? You’re the smart one, you should have a plan.”
He smiles, telling me that he has more plans than he’s telling me about. “I’ve got options.”
“Well, you need to decide soon. Applications are due in a few weeks.”
“Yeah, I got plenty of time. What about everything else?”
“You mean Hadley, right?”
“Yeah. I need to know if I can swoop in yet… ow,” he complains, rubbing the spot on the back of his head that my hand just collided with.
“Hands off my fucking girl, asshole.”
“Been there, done that… ow. Seriously, cut that shit out,” he moans, edging away from me.
“Me?” I hiss. “Hadley is mine. You need to fucking remember that. Go find your own girl.”
“I’m only busting your balls, bro. Hads is my sister, same as Remi. What I really want to know, though, is what you’re going to do about getting her back, because I fucking miss her, and I know for a fact that she misses your moody ass.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah, fuck knows why, but… ow. She’s alone now, Cole. She needs you to pull your head out of your ass and fight for her.”
I nod, knowing his words are true. It’s what I need to do and what I fully intend on doing. “I’m out. I need to talk to James.”
