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We all laughed and reached for our wallets. He earned it with that call.
“You miss those days?” B-ry asked no one in particular. Since I was still technically the only single one here, I had a feeling he was talking to everyone else.
“Nope,” Lake said with a dopey smile on his face.
“Wouldn’t trade what I have for anything,” Ky said.
“Damn, we’re a bunch of saps,” Brand chimed in with a little chuckle. We all knew how he felt about Cami.
“Me neither,” B-ry added.
Not like I needed to hear them all say it. It was too damn obvious how deep they were in with their loves.
“You guys suck,” I said and I might have pouted a little.
“You had that Amber chick,” Lake said and though it was a joke, I shot him a deadly look.
“Yeah, whatever happened to her?” Brand asked with a raised brow.
I let out a heavy sigh and tried my hardest not to roll my eyes.
“She wasn’t the one,” Ky said with a sniff but he wouldn’t look at me.
“We all kind of got that much,” Lake mumbled into his beer.
I could tell they weren’t really big fans of Amber but maybe that had been my fault. Or, now that I thought about it I saw that it was kind of hers. I took her around my brothers constantly but she never really made an effort to get to know them. Guess that should have been my first clue, huh?
“It just wasn’t right,” I said in hopes of ending the conversation. It became awkward as hell all of a sudden. “Well, I’m gonna go. Leave you all to keep gabbin’ like chicks.”
I stood and luckily, they laughed at my joke.
Yeah, I needed some alone time for sure. I definitely needed to process the subtle things that Ky had said tonight. It seemed like things were turning around a little bit. At least Ky didn’t look like he wanted to beat my ass too much tonight. Maybe in time, he would relax about me wanting to be with his sister.
Back in my room, the thoughts wouldn’t stop. In fact, my brain seemed to be working overtime as I stared up at my ceiling. What would it be like to spend time with Ingram just the two of us? More importantly, could we do that? Would it be pushing this whole friends thing we were working on?
I hated that I felt so unsure about it all. I didn’t want to say that I had been walking around on eggshells, but I kind of was.
There had to be something we could do that would be relaxed enough that she didn’t feel like I was trying to make it a date. I could wish all I wanted, but I’d never push her into something she wasn’t ready for. And I wasn’t trying to be manipulative. That wasn’t me. But maybe, I wanted her to see how we could be without the buffer of Chry. That I could be as good for her as I was for him.
After all, that was all I really wanted.
