Page 10 of What I Like About You

lol you don’t even deny it anymore

3:43 PM

i’m sorry it’s been a day okay!!

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Amy Chen

whatever. i get it. you have to admit it to yourself before you can admit it to your besties. i’ll be here to say I TOLD U SO when you do.

3:45 PM

… what am I admitting?

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Elle Carter

Girl, you know.

3:45 PM

…

3:46 PM

My friends, along with the rest of the internet,loveto act like something is going on between Nash and me. For the record, it’s not. Nash is the first person who left a comment on my blog, which led to me discovering REX, which resulted in our first DMs. He’s the first real friend I ever had. Mybestfriend.

Amy, Elle, and Samira’s jokes cut closer to home though because they’re friends with Nash too. Book Twitter is already a bubble. Teen Book Twitter? It’s such a niche subsection of the Twitterverse—pretty much everyone knows everyone. Or at least, knowsofeveryone.

Samira Lee

*an extremely natural segue*

Brooklyn wants to know how moving went, Kels?

3:50 PM

Samira sends us a string of portrait-mode photos of Brooklyn, her perfect queen of a cat. I save them to my camera roll, because Brooklyn photos make the best memes. On Twitter, she’s a star.

ok. i’m used to it, you know?

3:45 PM

it’s not really a big deal anymore

3:46 PM

My friends think I’m an army brat. It explains why I move around so much. If I told them the real reason, it would get complicated. And the best thing about being Kels is how uncomplicated she is. She bakes cupcakes inspired by book covers, reviews YA books, and always knows exactly what to say. She never thought-spirals or blurts out the wrong thing at the wrong time. She makes a religion out of the backspace key. She doesn’t have Halle’s Academy Award–nominated parents or a publishing royalty grandmother to live up to.

And she has actual friends. Even though we’ve never met, they aren’t just pixels to me. Amy, Elle, and Samira are the peopleI talk to every day—whether about the latest drama on Book Twitter, the disappointment in an ARC I was so excited for, or asking their opinions on which photo to use for the next cupcake Instagram post. Even though they don’t know my real name, they know me better than anyone. Well, except Nash.

Amy Chen

not a big deal! i cried for a week when i moved into my dorm.

3:47 PM

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