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I quirk a lip at her. “Smart ass.”
“I’m putting up a shelf.”
“Why didn’t you ask me?”
I ease the drill from her hand and set about putting the shelf up for her. Marking the level for the screws methodically, first.
“Because I can’t keep relying on you forever.”
A weird lurch makes me slip and the pencil slides across the freshly painted wall. “Shit.”
“It’s fine. It wipes off.”
I try and get myself under control again. “Why can’t you rely on me forever?”
“Really, Beck? One day you’ll find someone who you want to spend your life with and when that happens, I can’t keep being the third wheel.”
I place the drill on the floor and turn to her, placing my hands on my hips to keep from reaching for her. “Tink, you’ll never be a third wheel and I’d never let anyone come between us. You know that.”
She picks at her cuticle until it bleeds, and I swat her hands away. “Stop with the self-mutilation.”
She drops her hands with a huff. “It’s not realistic. One day you will fall in love, and I want that for you. I do.”
“I’m not going to fall in love.”
She crosses her arms over her chest and cocks her hip. “Be serious.”
“I am. I have no interest in falling in love.”
I can’t tell her it’s because I’m madly in love with her and have been for years.
“Are you sure?”
“Maybe you’re the one that’s falling in love. I hear you had your date with Xander. How was it?”
A huge blush stains her cheeks and I grit my jaw at the soft look in her eyes and the heat in her cheeks. Fuck, it’s worse than I thought. “Did you fuck him?”
“Beck!”
“What? Can’t friends ask these things? You never had a problem telling me in the past.”
“This is different.”
“How?”
“Because you don’t like him.”
“I never said that.”
The problem is I like him too much and it’s messy as fuck.
“Oh, so you like him, just not for me.” She throws up her hands in exasperation and spins away from me.
“Amelia, don’t walk away from me.”
I follow her to the kitchen where she’s filling a glass with water. I move behind her at the island, pinning her in with my hands on either side of her body and she stills.
“I like him, Beck. Can’t you just be happy for me?”
