Curvy Girls Can't Date Best Friends by Kelsie Stelting

Author:Kelsie Stelting
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kelsie Stelting

Twenty-Four

CARSON

I had to squeeze Callie’s hand to keep mine from shaking. Everyone in the living room—Callie’s parents, Joe, and the guy she loved—looked back at me expectantly. It felt like all the blood was draining from my face as I prepared to tell them the truth: that I was in love with Callie.

Callie’s dad lifted the remote and paused the show. It was frozen on an old lady with her lips bunched up, clearly tasting something. I would much rather be in her position right now, because my stomach was becoming more and more knotted by the second.

“What's up?” Robert asked. “Everything okay?”

I looked to Callie. Everything was always okay with her at my side. For a moment, I stared into her deep blue eyes and found the courage I needed to tell them. “Callie and I are in a relationship.”

Callie’s eyes slid over to her family, and I followed her gaze to them, holding my breath.

A look of realization crossed Joe’s face, and he immediately burst out laughing. Like loud, obnoxious laughter. He pointed between Callie and me. “Carson has been so deep in the friend zone, he might as well be wearing a dress. And he made it out?”

I squeezed Callie’s hand tighter, if only to keep me upright. This was everything I’d dreamed of—getting out of the friend zone and becoming more. But this alternate reality was what I signed up for instead, and I needed to remember why. Callie deserved better than me for her future. She deserved more.

Callie’s eyebrows came together in that adorable way they did when she was angry. “Why would you say that about Carson?”

Joe’s smile faltered. “It’s not that; it's just... I've seen you put makeup on him.”

I shuddered. Why did he have to bring up that snow day gone wrong? “Come on, man, that was one time in fifth grade.”

“And remember last year when you guys dressed up as Charlie's Angels for Halloween and Callie’s foster dog had to be the third angel?” Joe said. “Carson held her in your purse the entire night!”

“Joe, honey,” Anne warned him.

I gave Callie a look. “I told you that was a bad idea.”

Callie shook her head, then turned back to Joe, speaking forcefully. “Carson is the best friend a girl could ask for, and I'm lucky that he would even consider dating me.”

Her words sent my heart twisting in all sorts of uncomfortable ways, like maybe she should just rip it out of my chest already, but I just held on to her hand for dear life. I would make it through this. I had to.

Joe seemed to sober. “So this is real.”

But it wasn't Joe who Callie was looking at as she answered. She gazed directly at Nick and said, “I'm with Carson.”

Her words found their target, as Nick straightened and forced an unconvincing smile.

“Well then.” Robert stood up and walked over to us, clapping my shoulder. “Guess you two aren't allowed in the same room by yourselves anymore.”

Callie squeezed my hand, like a silent I told you so.

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