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regretting it.
    “Daniel, we’re not planning a robbery.”
    “Sure we are! We want Luke to rob you of your virginity, am I right?”
    “Oh my god, I can’t believe I called you,” I cried as I buried my face in my hands.
    Daniel snorted. “I can’t believe it either. You really should have known better.”
    I let out a groan and flopped backward on my bed, staring up at the ceiling. “Alright, fine. So give me advice. Good advice! Like, to leave him the hell alone and stop this madness.”
    “Oh, honey. You know if you wanted advice from the angel on your shoulder, you could’ve called Chelsea. But you didn’t. You called me. The devil you know.”
    He wasn’t wrong. Chelsea was my other best friend from school, but she and I never became quite as close as I had with Daniel. It was strange because Chelsea and I were a lot alike—both good girls who followed the rules and didn’t cause trouble.
    The problem was, I wanted to cause trouble, whereas Chelsea was happy with her life as it was. She had all her shit together. She even had a ten year plan. Her entire future mapped out, piece by perfect piece.
    Me? I just wanted to latch on to Daniel and go on wild adventures. I just never had the guts to do it, so instead I settled for living vicariously through him.
    “You’re right, you know,” I said to my ceiling.
    Daniel stopped pacing and I could almost hear his eyebrow raise. “Did you just say I’m right? Can you say it again so I can record it?”
    I sighed and sat up, giving him a withering glare. “Knock it off. You’re almost always right and you know it.”
    “True, but you never say it.”
    “Daniel, seriously. Please just tell me how to deal with this. Tell me how you would handle this. And how the hell can I get what I want without feeling guilty about it?”
    Sensing the severity of how badly I felt, Daniel’s eyes softened and he sat down beside me. “Jen, you know that any way we do this, you’re probably still going to feel guilty about it. It’s just the kind of person you are.”
    “So should I just leave him alone?”
    “Oh, hell no. But the trick of this is—you have to let him come to you . You can not be the one to make a move on him, no matter what. He’s a grown man; he can make his own choices. And besides, it’s not like the guy is never going to have sex again just because he was an addict once. That’s just ridiculous.”
    “So I shouldn’t feel bad?”
    Daniel pursed his lips together and shrugged. “I don’t know. Maybe just a little? Because you are about to drive him absolutely insane.”
    I felt the color drain from my face as I asked, “I am?”
    Daniel grinned. “Oh yeah. Because I’ll give you my advice under one condition.”
    “What’s that?”
    “You follow it down to the letter . You do every single thing I tell you to. I know, it sounds daunting. But I promise it’s going to work and I’m not going to make you do anything insane.”
    The grin he was wearing made me nervous, but considering I was running so low on options, I didn’t see another way to go about it. I thought back to my comparison between myself and Chelsea and steeled my resolve.
    It was my turn to be wild for once. I was sick of living through Daniel’s experiences. If this was the kind of life I wanted—crazy and exciting and full of spontaneity—there was only one way I was going to get it.
    “Okay, I’ll do it. Whatever you say.”
    Daniel’s grin widened. “Excellent. So, here’s how it’s going to play out...”
    ~*~*~

Chapter Six
     
    It was a few minutes after midnight when I heard the rumbling of the car pulling to a stop outside my house. A moment later, the front door opened and closed, and I braced myself for step one of the plan.
    Granted, there was a chance that it wouldn’t happen tonight. Even Daniel had warned me that. I had to wait for the pieces to fall into place before I could begin the chain of events.
    My body was wired with nervousness but also