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“Great joke,” she said with yet another eye roll.
“I’m sorry, Skye. I would love to spend New Year’s Eve with you, and I know the girls will be thrilled.”
“Good,” she said, the smile back on her face.
“Do you, um, I mean—uh…”
“Yes?”
“Do you want to stay for a while?”
“Stay…here?”
“Yeah. I mean, unless you don’t want to.”
“Of course I want to. But aren’t your kids still awake?”
“Well, maybe we just sit and talk. Or we can put on a movie or something.”
“I’d like that.”
I took her by the hand and led her to the living room where I pulled up the menu of movies for us to watch. She scanned through the list for a few minutes before settling onSleepless in Seattle.
“I can’t believe you’ve never seen this movie,” she said with a sigh as the opening credits began.
“I know it’s your favorite.”
“There’s no way you could possibly know that.”
“Skye, you forget that I was, like, super in love with you in high school. While you were out on dates and hanging out with your friends, I was sitting at home wondering if you would ever love me back.”
“I—um—I didn’t know your feelings were that intense.”
“Well, they were. I had no idea how to deal with it, so that’s why I avoided you like crazy.”
“You avoided me?”
“You didn’t realize that we kind of lost touch in high school?”
“No, I did. I just thought it was because we were both doing our own things.”
“We were doing our own things. You were making friends and having fun. I was…thinking about you.”
She reached over and grabbed my hand, and I knew it was out of pity, but I held it anyway.
“Owen, you should have told me.”
“You would have laughed in my face.”
“That’s not true!”
“Skye.”
“Okay, well maybe I didn’t have the same feelings for you then that you did. But now…”
She trailed off, though I was dying to hear what she would say next. I was desperate to hear more about how she felt about me.
“Now?” I asked.
