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I look at Chris.“Did you?”He nods his head.“So why didn’t you tell me?”
“Why would I?”
“Why wouldn’t you?You guys have been friends forever.”
“Exactly, why would I want my little sister going out with my friend?I don’t even want to think about it.”
“Why?Nick’s not a bad guy.”
“He’s not the guy you want dating—I use that word loosely—your little sister.”
I roll my eyes at him.
“Cat, do you think he was going to be celibate because you were my little sister or because you didn’t have a lot of experience with sex back then?”
“Yes.You don’t know that he wouldn’t.”
“Yes, I do.He would have cheated on you or taught you everything he knows and more.All we did was think with our dicks.What guy wants to think of their baby sister like that?I know I don’t.I don’t even want to think about it now.”
I smile at him and I feel myself blush a little.I can’t help it, I know what he’s talking about.He looks at me and rolls his eyes like I did to him before.
“You see, this is what I’m talking about.You blushing and shit.If you’re an adult now, and I still don’t want to think about it, what would have happened back then?”
“You would have trusted him to do the right thing because he was your best friend and you would have trusted me to know what I could handle.”He opens his eyes wide and looks at me like I don’t know what I’m talking about.
“Hell no!I wouldn’t have trusted you or him.”
“Okay.It was just a thought.”
“It was the wrong thought.He probably would have had you chained up naked to one of those giant wheels they have onWheel of Fortuneon your first date while he spins you.Big money, big money, big money.”
My head pops up, my mouth is open.“Chris.”He is totally exaggerating.Nick wasn’t that bad.From what I knew anyway.
“What?He was into a lot of kinky shit back then.He was my friend, I knew him better than you.We saw a lot, we did a lot.You’re right about one thing; we’re as tight now as we were back then.That’s the only reason he didn’t touch you.If he had, we wouldn’t be friends now.”
“Did you tell him to stay away from me?”
“No, he knew how I felt.”
“How do you know he liked me like that?”
“The first and only time you went out with one of the guys on the football team, you were fifteen.”
“With Mason.I was so excited about that date.I couldn’t believe he wanted to go out with me.”He was someone that would go for someone like Kate normally.“I was surprised when he asked me out.”
“You weren’t the only one.”
“What do you mean?”
“Nick was at the house that night.When he saw Mason and heard about the date with you…he wasn’t happy.”
“I didn’t know he was there that night.I didn’t see him.”
“We left before you came down.He lost his cool and told Mason if he laid one hand on you or even thought about kissing you he would make his life hell on earth after he crippled him and put him in the hospital.He was going to show him the way to the white lights.”
“He did what?”My eyes almost drop out of my head they’re open so wide.
“You heard me.”
