Page 85 of Love and Other Chances

I don’t want to move on from the magic. How do you say goodbye, even if only for the night, right after you’ve declared your love? It physically hurts to pry away from him, but we tear ourselves apart.

“Goodnight, Sneaks. I love you,” Brooks whispers before he walks back to the car.

I’m only inside for a minute when my phone pings with a text.

BROOKS

I love you

I love you

I’ll never get tired of telling you. I love you

AMAYA

I am so freaking jealous. I’m tempted to disown you two for planning this without me

Noooooo, Beef, don’t be mad at me! It was totally a spontaneous mental health trip for Brooks. Lana and I had zero fun together

AMAYA

Yeah right

LANA

Teegs, you can’t obviously lie and expect Amaya to believe it. Just say you missed her SO much and wish she was there

I missed you SO much and wish you were there too

AMAYA

Overlooking this offense in the name of lifelong friendship

AMAYA

But I need to know what Mateo thought of Brooks?

I also need to know. Spill the tea, Lana

LANA

He really liked him! Said Brooks was almost like Teegan in guy form

Lol we’ve heard that before

LANA

He’s fun to be around, but we knew that already. Mateo also said Brooks showed a lot of maturity and passion about what he does in education. And he asked a lot of good questions about our experiences. He respected that a lot

I like that about him too

LANA

And we both agreed that he’s totally obsessed with you, Teegs

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