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She groaned and covered her face with her hands, feeling her cheeks burn hot beneath her fingers “Maybe”

Why had Joseph spilled her secret after the conversation they’d just had? He’d asked her to choose hi Garret she was into hiirl

“Well, I think it’s cool,” Garret said He nudged her with his shoulder and chuckled “Why didn’t you tell me?”

She peered at hiers “I did tell you”

He shook his head “What? When?”

“The night of our graduation I found you at Noah Tollefson’s party You were sitting on the front porch swing”

His eyes widened “You sat with me?”

“Yes” Her cheeks burned “And everything spilled out of me About how I’d liked you since ere kids and how I liked you still But you just gave irlfriend”

Garret groaned and scrubbed his face with his hands “Michelle, I was not in a fit state that night to hear anyone’s confession I’m pretty sure I blacked out for half of the party The only thing I re that you wereaway for school That’s it I’m so sorry”

She laughed, pulling her knees in to wrap her arms around the it up, but he hadn’t re about her confession She’s spent soherself up It was ridiculous

“And to think,” she said, glancing at hiht you rejected me When really, you were too drunk to listen”

“Yeah and I got in a lot of trouble that night Believeup in the guest bath isn’t pretty They threatened to make me march down to the police station and turnInstead, they sentencedat church to polish the pews I still hate the smell of polish”

She chuckled softly, ium off the bottom of the pews It sounded like the kind of punish Not that she ever had to find out

Garret studied her for a long raduation?”

She sighed “You were always so cool So confident I had braces, frizzy hair, and a bad case of word voh”