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“Blasphemy,” I say.
“You’re going too?” Skye asks me and I gather there’s a bit of hope in her tone.
“It’s practically mandatory,” Penny says. And she’s not wrong. Especially for all the singles around here.
“You had me at goats,” Skye says and I could kiss my little sister.
“I like her,” Maya says as I back the truck down the driveway.
“Same,” Penny agrees.
I’m tempted to agree but bite my tongue and focus on the road.
“We should do something for her birthday,” Maya says.
Skye’s birthday is coming up? Should I get her something? Would that be weird? Too forward?
Yes, dipshit. This is why girls think you’re clingy.
“Kaitlynn’s already having a party that night,” Penny says.
“We’ll take her there, then. Ring in the big one-eight with lime Jell-O shots.” I cut Maya’s laughter short when my foot slips off the accelerator and the truck jolts needing to drop down a gear.
“What the fuck, Theron?” Maya punches me in the arm from where she sits in the center of the bench seat.
I ignore her, downshift, get up to speed and upshift again.
And thank God she doesn’t pry further because I have no good excuse to give her.
Skye’s only seventeen? I just assumed Skye was older than Maya because she moved out of her parent’s house to come here. Her parents must have stuck her in school as soon as they could if she graduated already.
Seventeen…
Shit. Boone failed to mention that little tidbit.
Why would he have? Why would his twenty-eight-year-old best friend need to know how old his baby cousin is?
Fuck.
The thoughts I’ve been having about her were bad enough when I thought she was just this side of eighteen. Now, they’re just downright wrong.
I should vanquish them from my memory but she’s so deeply rooted in every recess of my mind, that I don’t know how I can ever forget her.
All the excitement I felt about seeing her again seems wasted. I can’t be excited to see a girl I have no business seeing as anything more than my sister’s friend. My best friend’s cousin. She’s just a girl.
But not for much longer.
No.
That’s a dangerous thought.
One I need to put out of my head right the fuck now.
I will see Skye again. There’s no avoiding that now. If I have to see her again, I’ll just have to change the way I look at her.
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