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Who knew this would be my life?
Best birthday present ever, indeed.
TITUS’S CHRISTMAS WISH
CHAPTER 1
You said everything would be back to normal by June. Juleyed.
-Titus to Banner
TITUS
She’d aged well.
It’d been ten years since I’d last seen her, and not a one of those years had been unkind to her.
Blue was still just as short as she was in high school, but now she had an air of allure about her that sent my heart galloping twice as fast as it used to.
Ten years.
Jesus Christ, how had it been that long?
“What are we doing here again?” Slone muttered darkly. “I couldn’t stand these people ten years ago. I really can’t stand them now.”
“We’re here because you love me, and you want Blue to be my wife,” I whispered conspiratorially.
Slone rolled his eyes.
Banner, who had walked up behind me just as I’d said that, started chuckling.
“You couldn’t get her in high school, what makes you think you can get her now?” Banner asked curiously.
I’d have punched him straight in the balls had there not been so many damn teachers around.
Seriously, I’d been gone from the school for ten years now, yet being in the building again was bringing back that crippling anxiety one feels at the idea of being in high school.
I’d had a fairly decent high school experience…at least, if you didn’t count your best friend almost getting murdered by the school resource officer.
I’d grown a lot since I’d left the halls of Kilgore High School.
Yet, there was still that one constant.
Blue Spurlock.
She’d been the center of my teenage world and was still the star in my adult one.
No one compared to her.
And though there’d been a lot of time and separation between us, any time I came into contact with the girl—now woman—all those feelings rushed back to the surface.
“Let’s go over there,” I suggested.
“Let’s not,” Banner said as he walked toward the bar. “Let’s get a drink first. That way, I can have alcohol with the show that’s about to be put on.”
I flipped him off.
Banner grinned.
