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“Don’t do it again. Go play.” I waved her off. Best she learn the lesson now, and not when she was old and gross.
“So, you and Phillip…” Daria trailed off. “I just...”
So much for avoiding that topic. “Might as well finish the thought.”
“I keep wondering when the two of you are going to figure out how good you are together, and stop pretending you’re just friends.”
The words slammed into me harder than was fair, and I didn’t care for the knot they left in my chest. “We’re not even that.”
“Okay. Sure.” She didn’t sound convinced. “Listen, I know I give you a lot of shit about, well, everything. I mean, you’re my big brother, I’m supposed to. But there’s no one I trust more with the girls.”
“I— Where did that come from?”
“I don’t know. It just felt like you needed to hear it.”
“Thanks.” Rather than helping me add some order to my thoughts, they were in more of a jumble now than ever.
