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I’m speechless. Why the hell would anyone cheat on Felix? I can’t imagine a better guy. Plus, he has the whole stupid-hot thing going on. He’s the total package.
His jaw is set in a hard line. “After that, I thought that I couldn’t be a guy that made someone else a priority while still working toward my dreams, but with you, I feel like anything is possible. You never make me feel like I have to choose.”
“You shouldn’t. You don’t. You’re a great guy, Felix, and you’re going to do incredible things.”
He nods, but his expression is still pained. “Be my girlfriend, hot stuff?”
I’m too stunned by everything he said for the idea to really sink in. Be Felix’s girlfriend? Like for real, for real?!
He takes my hair into his fist and tugs lightly, tipping my lips up toward his. “You don’t have to answer now. Just promise me you’ll give it some thought.”
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DAHLIA
“Well, what did you say?”Jane asks. She’s moved from her position, lying on the pillow fort beside my bed to sitting, hugging a pillow to her stomach, and staring at me wide-eyed as I tell her about last night with Felix. Well, almost all of it. I left out the stuff with Bethany because it didn’t feel like my story to share.
“I told him I’d think about it, then we had sex again and passed out. I had to get up early to meet my dad, so we didn’t have a chance to talk this morning.”
Her lips pull into a huge smile. “Oh my gosh, Dahlia! This is so exciting.”
“Is it?” I ask, really needing to hear her take on the situation. “I can’t help but worry that he hasn’t really thought this through. He said he wants it to be like before, but before, we were pretending. I don’t know. What if it’s not the same? I don’t know how to be a girlfriend, not a real one. Too many things are happening at once. My mind is literally spinning. Tell me what to do?”
She laughs a little at my rambling. “I can’t, babe. This is way beyond my expertise. But for what it’s worth, you would be a great girlfriend if that’s what you decide.”
I groan and fall back onto the bed. It still smells like Felix.
“When are you seeing him again?”
“I don’t know.” I sit back up and pull my hair over one shoulder. “He had to catch up on some school stuff today, and I have a lot to do before I leave Friday to go meet with Eddie.”
“Oh right.” Her wide-eyed grin is back.
“Speaking of, would you come with me?”
“Me?”
“Please? I know it’s a big ask to miss a day of classes, stay in a nice hotel, and have VIP passes to an Eddie Dillon concert, but I need all the moral support I can get.”
“That does sound fun, but wouldn’t you rather take Vi? She actually knows something about design.”
“But you know LA and you’re a great hype woman. I need all the hype.”
She chuckles. “Yeah, okay. I’ll come.”
“Yay!” I clap my hands in front of me.
“But first tell me the part where Felix grabbed you in the dark hallway and kissed you again?”
I laugh, but my body heats at the memory. “One more time and then I’m taking a nap.”
“Deal.” She squeals.
* * *
Felix and I text throughout the beginning of the week, but our schedules keep us from seeing one another. And, okay fine, I might be avoiding him. I need to figure out what I want before I see him because when I see him, all I’m going to want to do is kiss him.
I understand him better now that I know more about what went down with Bethany, and I see how that made him hesitant to get into another relationship, but even putting that aside, I still have this worry that he’s confusing his desire to keep having sex with me to wanting me to be his girlfriend. If I hadn’t been a virgin, would he still be so insistent that he doesn’t want casual?
