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I shrugged. “I don’t know. Why now, all of a sudden?”
“Why are you so opposed to finding out who it was? I would be dying to know!”
“If the person wanted to be recognized for it, he would have come forward by now. I respect the fact that the person wants privacy.”
“Maybe he’s shy. Or she. What if it’s a she?”
“You’re obsessed, dude.”
“Yeah, I am obsessed with the person who saved my best friend’s life. He deserves all the thanks in the fucking world, if you ask me.”
“I’m sorry. You have every right to be curious. It just doesn’t really matter to me.”
“You know what I really want to know? What it felt like dancing with Chase Brooks last night.”
Now it was my turn to hide my face in shame. “I don’t want to talk about it!”
“I’m going to put that on your tombstone, I swear. Here lies Merritt Adams. Beloved daughter and friend. She doesn’t want to talk about it!”
“There’s nothing to talk about. I got caught up in a moment of weakness. There was something in the air – it was the Halloween air!
“Or love is in the air,” she cooed.
“No. It most definitely did not smell like love!”
“I think it smells exactly like love. And do you want to know what else I think?”
“No, but you’re going to tell me anyway.”
“The doctor told you that the more you hold onto feelings of anger and sadness, the longer it will take your brain to recover any lost memories. If you are a closed-off person, your brain becomes closed off, too. You are trying so hard to ignore any feelings you have for Chase, and remain closed off, that you’re shutting out the memories that want to come back, too.”
“So, you’re saying if I admit that I have feelings for Chase, that my memory of the accident will miraculously come back?”
“Not when you put it like that.” She sighed. “I just mean that you need to open up more about your feelings in life. Be more open.”
“I can do that.”
She raised her eyebrows. “Really?”
“Sure. Right now, I am feeling very hungry. I’d like to leave so we can go to your parents’ house. There – how was that for expressing my feelings?”
She hurled a pillow at me and stood. “You’re such a bitch.”
I chuckled as I followed her down the stairs to her car.
“Laugh all you want. You don’t fool me. I’ve got your number. You don’t have to admit it, but I know you’re falling in love with him.”
“Falling in love with who?” a deep voice behind us asked.
I whirled around to see Tanner walking down his driveway. “Nobody,” I replied quickly. “How’s your hand?”
He shrugged as he shoved his swollen knuckles into his pocket. “It’s fine. Better than Shawn’s face.”
“Can I ask why you punched him? What did he say to you?”
“He said that if I wasn’t going to fuck you, someone else would.”
I shuddered at the thought. “He’s such a skeeze ball.”
