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Mom corralled us outside when we got into the living room, claiming the better lighting and backgrounds were against the brick of the house. Connor was a great sport about all of it, watching as I posed with Ava, Rachel, and Jozie. He even snapped a photo of me with my parents, his smile visible even from behind the camera.
Rachel, standing next to Ava and Jozie, began clapping her hands. “Okay, pose, pose, pose. We need photos.”
“One photo, Ava,” I told her, holding up a finger, positioning myself at Connor’s side. His arm wrapped easily around me, hand landing at a respectable spot on my waist, like he’d been doing it for a while. Like he’d beenwantingto do it for a while. I leaned into Connor, laying my other hand against his chest. “One.”
She winked at me. “No, I only get topostone. I can take as many as I want.”
Connor ducked his face into the top of my head, and his slight chuckle shivered its way down my spine. Mom fumbled for her camera as Dad surveyed the scene with a serene expression. Jozie stood beside him, her arm looped through his.
All of my favorite people.
While Mom and Ava were trying to find the perfect light, I tipped my head back toward Connor, pushing my hair back from the breeze. “I’ve got a good one. ‘I was supposed to solve forx—so glad I founduinstead.’”
Connor tried to stifle the laugh, but it was impossible. I chuckled along with him, chest swelling with triumph, skin warming as he ducked his face into my hair.
Ava gasped. “Ooh, hold that pose! That’s a good one.”
I tried to be professional after that, to keep the dorky smiles at bay, but when Connor readjusted his grip on my waist and pulled me closer, whispering in a low voice that no one could hear, I couldn’t fight the goosebumps. “I’m glad I found you, too.”
I looked up at Connor, chest swelling with an emotion that threatened to burst inside me. That hazel gaze of his, both equally green and equally brown in this light, was as tender as a touch, skimming my features.
Instead of listening to Ava, I stretched onto my tip-toes and kissed his cheek, feeling Connor smile beneath my lips. I’d been wrong before. Our story hadn’t been over before. In fact, it was only the beginning.
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Over the course of my high school career, so many things had been engrained in me that I’d never stopped to question whether or not they were true.
One: Football is life.
Two: Popularity is key.
Three: Never let anyone see behind the mask.
And here Maisie Matthews was, making me second-guess all of it.
I’d never thought the girl beside me would become as important to me as she was now. God, I’d never felt this way before, where my chest seemed to buzz at the prospect of our tutoring sessions.
And I knew better. I knew my heart wasn’t beating faster at the idea of Logarithmic Functions.
But transparency had never been my strong suit. It’d been easier to throw up wall after wall than to be tackled to the ground, forced to lay everything bare.
Except apparently, Maisie used to be a linebacker in her past life. I swear, no one got me rambling about the things I kept under lock and key the way she did. It was more than that, though. She didn’t force it out of me—I wanted her to know it all.
“Alex and I broke up.”
The words jolted me from my thoughts, and I turned toward her. She leaned against the side of her car beside me, her shoulder touching mine in a way that I shouldn’thave thought twice about. With her, there were a whole lot ofshouldn’ts. “What? When?”
“Last night. I wasn’t going to tell you.”
Why, I wanted to demand, a desperate buzzing in my ear.Why weren’t you going to tell me?After all the love advice, me practically operating without a license in that regard, she should’ve told me as soon as it happened. Should’ve ripped me a new one.
My thoughts slowed up, cleats skidding in the grass. If she wasn’t going to tell me before, what made her change her mind?
