Love on You by Amelia Wilde

Author:Amelia Wilde [Wilde, Amelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

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“Here.”

We’re nestled at the back table on the balcony, where we used to sit back in the day. Katie sits across from me, just like she used to, and I get a weird double vision where I can see her like she was and like she is now. It gives me a sort of pleasant vertigo, and vertigo is not something I ever would have described as pleasant until this moment.

She watches me stick my hand into my pocket, her eyebrows rising. “What the hell do you have in your pocket?” Katie asks in her library voice, which is just above a whisper. “You perv.”

“I said here.” I get the Twizzlers out, finally, and slide them across the table like we’re completing an illicit transaction. “You’ll never get caught with those.”

Katie takes the package almost reverently in her hands and turns it so she can see the front. “How do you remember all this stuff?”

“How do you not remember it? Not—you specifically. I mean, in general, how do people forget all the stuff they know about a friend?”

She arches one eyebrow at me. “I’d say that we’re close friends at minimum.”

“About a best friend. And stop fishing for compliments.”

“Being your best friend isn’t a compliment,” she says primly. “Anyway, I’m not even sure we are best friends, after the wasteland of college.”

“Wasteland seems like a strong word.”

She shrugs one shoulder and it melts me all over again. “It was kind of a wasteland.” Her green eyes meet mine. “Why didn’t we talk?”

Because this would happen, and I wanted you to be free of Ruby Bay.

“I don’t know. The days got away from me, I guess. And I didn’t think your were having that hard a time.”

“I didn’t only want to hang out with you when I was having a hard time, you know.”

“That’s clear to me now. But in college, I was younger and dumber. And I still hadn’t made up my mind about coming back to Bliss at all.”

“You keep saying that.” Katie rips open the package of Twizzlers, pulls one out, and takes a bite of the end of one of the twists. “But I don’t get it. And why haven’t you brought this up before? Like, for real brought it up?”

“While we’re out taking guests on sailboats or doing all the other various bullshit for our jobs?”

She gives me a long look. “Yes. Exactly then. We’ve spent almost three full weeks together, and you didn’t say anything about it until the day of the wedding. You just kayaked until your arms got ripped.”

I flex them underneath my t-shirt. “Are you complaining?”

Her eyes rake over me. “No. But it did make me wonder if we were still friends. Still…close.”

I lean in, conspiratorial as fuck. “Is this the part where I talk about my feelings?”

Katie leans in, eyes darting from side to side. “Yes, you jackass. This is the part where you talk about your feelings.”

“But what’s going to come of it?”

She cups her hands around her mouth. “Hopefully a decent fucking conversation, Huck.

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