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“Bullshit! You’re blushing. Why are you blushing if the only thing that happened is you helping him out while he was sick?”
Dammit, I should have known better. Once Jade gets her mind set on something, there is no stopping her until she gets what she wants.
“Jade,” I plead. I wasn’t above begging if it would get me out of here. “Can I have my phone back?”
“You can.”
Great, she’s finally starting to see reason.
I start to extend my hand, but she stops me.
“After you tell us what happened. We’re your best friends. There is a rule in the best friend handbook in which besties share everything with each other.”
“I didn’t realize there is a handbook.”
“Well, if there isn’t, there should be one. Spill.”
Groaning, I tilt my head back.
“Wait, did he do something? Do you need me to go and kick his as—”
“He didn’t do anything. Well, not anything I didn’t want him to. He…” I nibble at my lower lip, averting my gaze.
God, why is this so hard? It’s not like this is the first time we talked about sex. The only difference is that usually, my friends are the ones discussing it, and I just nod my head, pretending that I know what they mean when in reality, I know nothing.
Until now.
“Wehadsex,” I blurt out, the words coming out in one breath.
It feels like saying them out loud has somehow made this whole thing real, but at the same time, it has lifted the weight off my shoulders.
Jade lets out a squeal. “I knew it! I totally called it.” Her hand lands on my palm, giving it a squeeze. “How was it? Are those hands as talented when it comes to a woman’s body as they are with that guitar of his?”
“It was…” Beautiful. Overwhelming. Magical. “Everything.”
It was everything I hoped it would be and more. And even now, all I wanted was to go back and seek him out so I could be with him. Not necessarily because of sex either, but just to be with him. It didn’t matter what we were doing. We could be working on music or just sitting and talking. As long as I was with Sebastian, I didn’t care.
“I remember that feeling from when Prescott and I finally got together. It was like he was the beginning and the end. Being with him made my whole world stop, and deep down, I knew that no matter what happened, I would never be the same.”
Her words make a lump form in my throat.
It’s like she took the words right out of my head and voiced them out loud, and something about it made me feel unnerved.
Grace hums. “That’s how it felt with Mason too. From that very first kiss. It’s like gravity shifted, and he became the center of my world.”
I let their words settle in my mind, that knot in my throat growing bigger by the second, along with the anxiety swirling inside my belly because their words felt familiar.
Way too familiar.
“Pens, you okay?”
No, I was anything but okay.
Because I had a sneaking suspicion, I was falling for my teenage crush all over again. Only this time, there was a real chance of him breaking my heart once he walked out of my life and back to his own.
A life in which I didn’t belong.
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