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head. “Nothing important.”
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    Present day…
    “ W ait , wait, wait. So you two made up after all? When did it turn to shit?”
    “Don’t fucking interrupt me and you’ll find out!”
    John raised his hand in mock-surrender. “Jesus, I’m sorry! Please continue.”
    I rolled my eyes. “Well, after my mom picked us up and we went home, I had a change of heart…”
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    Eight years ago…
    I timidly knocked on Amber’s door—not loud enough to wake up our parents, but with just enough force that I knew she would hear it. After a few moments, I heard the soft pad of her footsteps moving through the room and shortly after, the door hesitantly opened.
    “Can I come in?” I whispered.
    She frowned but nodded, opening the door further so I could step past and into her room. She closed it silently and I clenched my jaw as my eyes roamed over her tiny pajama set.
    As if this conversation wasn’t going to be awkward enough already. Now I had the wonderful addition of a semi to deal with.
    “What’s up?” she whispered as she moved back to sit on her bed and gestured for me to do the same.
    “I wasn’t entirely honest with you earlier,” I said nervously, twisting my hands together as I sat down on her bed and faced her. “I did remember what I wanted to tell you.”
    “What was it?”
    “Well, uh… Leslie was right, Amber. I do have a crush on you.”
    She looked completely taken aback and it made it that much harder to muster up the courage to continue. As she opened her mouth to speak, I held up a finger and placed it over her soft, pouty lips. It took all of my self-control not to kiss her right then.
    Which was when I remembered that I was already risking everything just by telling her how I felt, so I might as well go for broke. I took my finger from her lips and moved my hand to gently caress her cheek, watching as her eyebrows drew together with confusion.
    “I’m in love with you, Amber,” I whispered before leaning in and pressing my lips against hers.
    For the briefest moment, elation swept through my entire being when it clicked in my mind that she didn’t immediately push me away. There was a split second where I felt her lips just barely move against mine and it sent my heart soaring, right before it came crashing down and lodged in my gut when she pushed me back and covered her mouth with her hand.
    “Get out, Allen,” she said shakily.
    “But—Amber, please just—”
    “Get out or I’ll scream and wake up mom and dad.”
    I was thrown by her reaction, unable to do much else than exactly what she told me to. I stood up and looked down at her, my heart clenching painfully as I noticed she couldn’t even bring herself to look at me.
    I wasn’t stupid—I understood that she was probably freaked out because of our relation by marriage more than anything else. I suppose I just thought of it differently than she did. So before I fled from the room, I had one final thing to say.
    “Deny it all you want, it won’t make my feelings for you any less real.”
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    Present day…
    “ T hat was the last thing I said to her before she stopped acknowledging me entirely. Not for lack of trying on my part, but every time I spoke to her after that, she just glared right through me. Eventually I stopped going to see her because I could tell how angry it made her. Then I moved to the city and the rest is history.”
    John was slowly nodding and a smile slowly started spreading across his lips. I frowned at the sight of it, wondering what part of that story he thought was something to smile at.
    “You magnificent idiot.”
    “Excuse me?”
    John laughed. “Nothing, man. Thank you for telling me the whole story, it all makes sense now. And I can totally work with this.”
    “You—What do you mean?”
    John smirked. “I can talk her into this. As long as you’re cool with the idea, of course.”
    “You mean the idea of… sharing her.”
    “Yep. So how about it? Want to be in a