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I should have assumed I’d get a text like this.
* * *
Me: Aren’t you engaged?
Kenzie: Just answer me Brin.
Me: Did you even read the article, or did you just look at the picture?
Kenzie: The picture says it all.
Me: Lance came with me to the restaurant. She was there with Van. They shared a bottle of wine, so relax.
Kenzie: I am relaxed, I was just curious is all. I mean good for him for moving on.
Me: Anything else?
Kenzie: Don’t tell him I was asking.
Me: Never.
* * *
This has been my world since my cousins and I reached puberty. A knock on my door interrupts my texting. I swing the door open.
“You coming?” he asks.
“Yeah, just had to text my friend Kenzie back after she saw the picture on BuzzWheel.”
“How come?”
I shrug. “It’s just a thing between her and my cousins Lance and Easton.”
“Are they involved in a threesome?”
I laugh. “No.” I shoo him out of my room, and he brings the popcorn into the living room.
“I’m going to change into sweats. Keep talking.” He heads into his bedroom.
All I can think about is him naked in his room and what that might look like.
“Brinley?”
“Oh yeah, sorry.” I give my head a shake. “Ever since my cousins got hormones and went through puberty, they’ve loved the same girl—my best friend, Kenzie. She texted to see if Lance was dating Sabrina. I wanted to tell her yes because she’s engaged now, so it shouldn’t matter. I don’t know if she and Lance still talk or not because I made it clear a long time ago that I don’t want to be involved. I shouldn’t have answered her questions tonight, but she caught me in a weak moment.”
He comes back out into the living room shirtless, wearing only gray sweatpants and, I can tell, no underwear.
“What are you wearing?”
His gaze roams up and down my body. “I could ask you the same.”
I look down at myself. “I’m fully dressed.”
“Well, turn down the heat and I’ll put on a shirt.”
“And your boxer briefs?” My eyebrows rise.
He smiles in a way that hits his eyes and lights up his face. It’s a smile I haven’t seen before and it’s contagious. “Then you put panties on.”
