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“Dahlia, are you coming to breakfast with us on parents’ weekend?” Stella asks.
My gaze flicks to Felix. “Umm…I’m not sure.”
Holly glances between her brother and me, and with no malice in her tone says, “Do you two ever come up for air long enough to talk?”
I blush harder.
“You have to come,” Stella adds. “Our parents will be so excited to meet you.”
Felix doesn’t seem at all concerned that his sisters are inviting me to meet his parents. His hand remains steady on my thigh.
“If Felix won’t invite you, then I will.” Stella grins. “Be my date.”
“I didn’t invite her because I forgot about it,” he says casually.
“Actually, I can’t anyway,” I say. “I just remembered I have a golf tournament and I think my dad is coming up to watch.”
Felix looks to me. “A tournament at Valley?”
“Yeah.”
One side of his mouth lifts. “That’s cool. Can I come watch?”
“No,” I say quickly.
He scoffs. “Why not?”
I laugh and the honest reply slides out before I can stop it, “Because you’re very distracting.”
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DAHLIA
“I’m sojealous I could die,” Jane whines from where she lies on the pillow fort next to my bed. “I came home alone and fell asleep watchingFresh Prince of Bel-Airreruns.”
“I love that show.”
“Don’t patronize me. I was eating a microwaved burrito while wearing sweats, and you were getting busy with Felix.”
I snort a laugh. “It was a pretty great night.”
I’m curled up on my side, still wearing Felix’s lucky sweatshirt, but freshly showered. Jane came running to my room for details minutes after I walked through the door.
“When are you going to see him again?” she asks, hugging a pillow to her chest.
“I don’t know. We didn’t make any plans.”
“Invite him over tonight.” Her eyes light up. “Oooh, we can watchCan’t Buy Me Love!”
“I don’t know.” I wrap the strings of the hoodie around a finger. “I don’t want to be the girl that turns into a clingy bitch the second we start hooking up.”
“You’re not just hooking up.”
“I don’t know what we’re doing anymore,” I admit. “But everything Felix has told me is that he doesn’t do relationships. He doesn’t have time and Bethany really fucked with his head.”
“Evil bitch. She’s lucky you didn’t tell me about the bathroom stunt until today. I’d like to rip her hair out strand by strand.”
“Honestly, same.”
