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“Don’t be jealous,” Savanna told me.
“It’s not fair,” I pretended to pout.
“It’s not his fault he has good taste,” Zuri teased, and we all laughed.
We chatted for about thirty minutes before they had to go. Kayla and her husband lived next door to my mom now, and they had to get Steven to sleep.
When my phone buzzed, Patrick handed it to me. There was a text from Andre there. He was just checking in. He’d moved to California for college, but we were still close. Patrick and I were helping to put him through college, and that was the best feeling in the world.
Later that night, we were lying in the bed, lights out, the camp quiet around us. We’d be up early the next morning for a high-protein breakfast before we’d start with warm-ups and drills.
“I still remember the last summer we were at camp together. When I heard your dad while I was under the bleachers. That was the first moment I realized there was more to you than I’d ever let myself see. It’s weird, but I felt connected to you from that moment on. I just wouldn’t admit it to myself.” I brushed the dark hair off Patrick’s head as he took me in with those eyes that screamed how much he loved me. I would never understand how I got so lucky, but I would spend my life making sure I deserved him.
“And now we’re here, married, with our own camp. Funny how that came full circle. Hell, for all we know, there could be two other boys here right now that will fall in love with each other one day.”
“They still won’t be as cool as us,” I teased.
“Obviously.” His voice lowered when he said, “I think I wanted you even before that. Maybe a part of me always knew it was you for me, and that’s why I liked getting under your skin so much.”
I grinned because how could a person not when Patrick Whitt said something like that to them? “Understandable.”
“Asshole.”
“I love you,” I countered. “You were mine from that day forward, and you always will be.”
“Yours,” he replied, and I kissed him, something I would do to him every night for the rest of my life.
