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| drag my hand down my face and force myself to look at Kent. He’s looking right at me, of course, from his place outside theroom. Looking at me as | sit in the clothes he sent, having a movie night with his son.
“Is ita surprise?” Daniel asks, working hard to pull Kent’s attention back to him. It doesn’t work. Kent keeps his eyes fixed on me.“I'm just having a nice evening in with my fiancé, after all,” Daniel continues. “What’s so surprising about that.”
Kent ignores his son. | shift uncomfortably under his gaze, looking down at the popcorn in my lap. | look up when | hear Kentspeak again.
“Well,” he says, his voice conclusive. “I wouldn’t want to interrupt. You two have fun.” He pauses, looking me straight in the eyefor a good ten seconds before turning slowly and striding away, perfectly in control. Daniel rudely slams the door after him.
“Daniel,” | sigh. “Do you have to be such a dick?”
“He’s being a dick, Fay!” Daniel explodes, throwing his hands in the air. “What he’s doing to you — how he’s treating you! I’msaving you from that!”
“Daniel,” | hesitate, looking at him with sorrow on my face. “DidChapter 185
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He goes still, staring at me with his mouth open. | trace the designon my duvet, awkward.
“Seriously?” Daniel breathes. “He got to you too?”
Nook up at him, a little rueful. He did.
“Can we just...enjoy the night?” | sigh, gesturing towards theempty side of the bed. “You scared him away — isn’t that what youwanted?”
Daniel sighs too, putting his forehead in his hand and closing his eyes to think it through.
“Just come watch the movie with me” | plead softly. It breaks my heart to see my friend so upset, even though...well, eventhough | know that this isn’t going to end well for us. That if | start sleeping with his dad, things are forever going to be changedbetween
Daniel and me..
And suddenly | decide that what | actually want — really — is one last real night with my best friend. While he’s my best friend.Daniel nods then, perhaps coming to the same conclusion, and
climbs back into the bed with me. | rest my head on his shoulder
and he gives me a chaste little kiss on the forehead, both of us apparently deciding not to talk about it. Perhaps, in this case,silence is best.
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We finish Clueless, and a couple more movies, before | eventually drift off to sleep with my head still on my friend’s shoulder.
But | swear, my last waking thoughtis to wonder what bell wauld Have
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