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Yawning, I remind myself that it’s late and I should put these thoughts aside for another day.It’s just past one a.m.I need a shower and sleep.But first, what I really desperately need is a debrief with Blair on everything that happened between Callan and me today.
I pad back out into the living room, locate my phone, and tap out a text.
Olivia
Are you awake?
She calls me instantly.“Something’s happened, hasn’t it?Tell me everything.I have snacks prepared.”
I can’t even with her.But also, I have so many words for her and they all gush out unfiltered.“I found out that I did tell Callan about Ricardo and also that I thought he’d be good at sex.He did undress me.He told me tonight that I own some sexy underwear.We danced for a long time and it wasn’t the kind of dancing we usually do.He’s been acting differently and I’m pretty sure he was flirting with me tonight.”
“Why are you whispering?”
“Because the hotel messed up his reservation and ended up putting us together in a suite!”
“Oh.”I literally hear her brain working.“Oh!Wait, is there only one bed?Tell me there is.That would make every hellish thing I had to live through today worthwhile.”
“I really want to ask you what hellish things happened today but that will have to wait.I’m having a moment over here that you need to talk me through.And don’t just say that Callan and I are meant to be together.Please give me some advice I can action because I’m flailing and so confused right now.He’s my best friend and none of this makes any sense to me.”
“I’m still waiting to hear about the bed situation.Don’t keep a woman hanging.”
“Yes, there’s only one bed.”
“This is the best news of the year.”
I roll my eyes.“Okay, but can we please get back to the flirting situation?I need your guidance on this.”
“No, you don’t, Liv.If you think he was flirting, he was.And I don’t doubt that he was.”
My pulse quickens.
I think he was too.
And I flirted back a little too.Until he told me that last Saturday afternoon was at the top of his list of favorite moments with me.It was then I decided I was completely misreading the situation.Now, I’m not so sure.He probably just meant he had a lot of fun because of how drunk I was and the crazy things I said to him.
“I’m going to tell you something that you can’t use on me later if I change my mind, okay?”
“Tell me first and then I’ll decide on my answer.”
“You are the worst,” I mutter before launching into my confession.“I do want to be more than Callan’s friend.”
“I already knew that.”
“No, you didn’t.”
“Liv,” she says with some exasperation, “We all know that.”
I walk out onto the terrace to get some fresh air.Staring up at the stars, I think about all the years I’ve spent working hard to hide my feelings from everyone.I’m a twenty-nine-year-old woman and some days I feel like a sixteen-year-old teenager.I’m tired of feeling that nervous energy all the time.
I sigh.“Okay, so everyone knows.Do you think Callan does?”
“If you’d asked me that before last weekend, I would have said no.But who knows what you said to him while you were drunk.Maybe he does.”
“It doesn’t make any sense that he was flirting.”
“Why not?”
“Because I’m not his type.”
