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change.”
    “Do you plan on talking to him ever again?”
    “Do you?” I ask, referring to that night at my apartment.
    “We have spoken a little,” she replies softly.
    “Yeah, right, that’s not what I meant. Are you two ever going to talk about what happened at the apartment? Are you ever going to tell me what happened?”
    She sighs, twisting her fingers in her lap. “We kissed.”
    “Yeah, I kinda figured that out myself. I just want to understand.”
    “We were sitting on the couch, talking about the night before and how nice it was. Liam had dropped us off, and Chase was too drunk to drive, so he stayed the night in my bed, but nothing happened,” she assures me, as if she would need my approval. But, this wasn’t new to me, Chase had already explained what went down that night we went out to celebrate my promotion.
    “Anyway,” she continues, “We were talking about it and something shifted between us, something I’d never felt from him before. All of a sudden, we were holding one another and our lips were touching. It took us a second to realize what was happening, but once we did, we attacked one another. It was so intense.
    “Then, as quickly as it began, it was over, and he was ripping away from me. He said he couldn’t do it, he couldn’t betray you like that. It killed me, and I slapped him.”
    That explains the look of distress and confusion on his face when I walked into the living room that night.
    “It only confirms what I said…He cares about you, but he’s confused about what he feels for me.” I take a deep breath. “We had talked earlier that day. After I screamed at him about what he had done with you, he told me about the night he slept over. I told him that I was happy about it as long as he didn’t treat you like every other random skank that jumped into his bed…Anyway, he told me he was attracted to you, but he wouldn’t want something to go wrong between the two of you and then screw things up for all of us.”
    “Are you ever going to speak to him again?” she inquires with a curious gleam in her eyes, twisting the ends of her blonde tresses.
    “Of course I will, but I still need time. I can’t see him right now.”
    “What about Mom?”
    “Same answer,” I retort, drinking the last of my hot cocoa. “I just feel so betrayed by her…What about you?”
    “She keeps calling me, but I tell her I don’t want to talk. She sounds torn up, and it kills me to reject her attempts of communication, but…”
    “I hear ya. I feel the same…She filled up my voicemail with pleading, heart-wrenching messages. How the hell do we go back to the way it was, when everything has changed?”
    “I don’t know,” she replies in a daze.
    Just then, Hunt comes up from behind us and says, “Are you done with your drinks, ladies?”
    “Yes,” we reply, handing him our cups, “thank you.”
    And just as quick as he appeared, he disappears into the kitchen again to finish his chores.
    I miss him.
    “He’s really amazing, Ellie,” she praises. “I’m glad you two got back together. You guys seem good for each other. You mesh well.”
    “Yeah, he’s incredible.” I nod. “I don’t know how I made it without him.”
    “So, why did you leave him?” she inquires with a baffled crease in her brow and a wrenched upper lip.
    “I’d prefer we didn’t go into that.”
    “Oh, come on, tell me.” I shake my head rapidly. “Why not?”
    I sigh. “Because, I wouldn’t want it to get back to Mom. It would devastate her.”
    “I promise I won’t tell her. Besides, it’s kinda hard to blab when I’m not even talking to her. Please, tell me.”
    “Fine,” I breathe out, slouching my shoulders in defeat. “But if you tell her, I swear I will hunt you down…”
    She runs her fingers over her razor-sharp mouth, mimicking a zipping gesture. I take a deep, steadying breath before taking her through the need-to-know events leading up to our last day together, leaving out