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“Grape job?” Bexley said, laughing.
“Well, youdiddo a grape job,” Alex replied.
“Alex?”
“Yes?” Alex asked, not taking a step back but standing right in front of Bexley and looking down at the sticker. “I think it’s scratch and sniff, by the way.”
“What?” Bexley asked.
“The sticker. I smell grape.”
“Oh,” Bexley said. “I just grabbed a bunch.”
“Of grapes?”
Bexley laughed and said, “Of stickers.”
Alex smiled seriously and met her eyes.
“Go to Balmoral with me,” she requested.
“I thought I already was,” Bexley replied.
“The way we left things, I wasn’t sure you still wanted to.”
“I do,” Bexley told her, knowing it was true.
“I don’t just want to go as friends who leave as friends, Bex. I’d like us to go there to see what could be between us. There would be no pressure, of course. And you’d have your own room. We can talk. I don’t expect anything more than us acknowledging this and talking about what we could have.” Alex paused. “If you want to leave, you just tell me. If, after the weekend, you decide this isn’t what you want–”
“Okay,” Bexley interrupted.
“Okay?”
“Okay. I’d love to go with you and… do that.”
“You would?” Alex asked.
Bexley nodded.
“Then, I think you get another sticker,” Alex said, winking at her. “I saw one that said, ‘You did it,’ with a cupcake on it.”
“Well, now I want a cupcake,” Bexley joked.
“I can make you smell like a cupcake, at least,” Alex replied, smiling.
“Are there any strawberry stickers over there?” Bexley asked.
“No, I already checked.”
Bexley looked at her, confused, and said, “Do you want to have lunch with me?”
“Only if you smell like a grape cupcake,” Alex teased.
CHAPTER 27
“How was I supposed to know? You didn’t tell me, and it’s not on the calendar.”
“Larry, I didn’t want our parents to know I was going to be there.”
