Page 5 of What If We Do

“You know what I mean.”

My elbows on the table, I press my forehead to my palm. “Why do I feel like this is one of those rom com stories my sister edits being written right in front of my face?”

“I mean never say never, I guess.” He smirks and nudges my arm. “Hey maybe we’ll be related through marriage someday.”

“In your fucking dreams, Ledge.”

His brows pinch together as he shakes his head. “No, not in my fucking dreams, dude. Those are saved for someone else.” He leans over and lays his head against my shoulder. Before I can shrug him off he says, “But maybe my swooniest, fan-girliest, oh-my-gosh-I-hope-Oliver-and-I-get-to-be-cousins-one-day dreams.”

“You know it’s never going to happen, right?”

“Come on.” He nudges a little harder. “Just look at this like a super fun blind date with a beautiful girl who just happens to be related to me so if on the off chance, you two were to one day fall in love and get married…”

This time I do push him off of me. “Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think ’ve heard enough.”

“Soooo, is that a yes?”

Is it a yes?

Is this even remotely a good idea?

What if it ends up being a terrible mistake?

What’s the worst that can happen?

She ends up crying the entire time forcing me to be the nice guy and perk her back up?

She doesn’t show up and I catch the next flight home?

I suppose I could at the very least meet the girl and see what happens.

Not like I have anything else to do.

Besides, with Ledger, there’s no way I’m getting out of this.

Unless she doesn’t pick me.

Except if I’m going all in with this, she better fucking pick me.

I take a deep breath and roll my eyes but only because Ledger is in my face giving me the worst puppy dog eyes I’ve ever seen. He needs help.

“Okay. Fine. I’ll do it.”

“Fuck, yeah, you will!”

“IF…” I raise my pointer finger. “She picks me. It’s perfectly fine if she wants to go with someone else.”

“Whatever.” Ledger smiles and starts moving his thumbs across his phone. “I’m

DM-ing her right now to tell her you’re in.”

Once he’s done, he tosses his phone to the side and picks up his burger, eating halfway through it in two bites. The rest of us chat about tonight’s game, the goals scored by Griffin and August, and the amazing saves Bear had. Hours go by as they do when we’re hanging at Jay’s. The Redtails game ended anhour ago. They kicked ass as always which definitely hyped up the guys hanging out as we face off against them in the not too distant future. It’s always fun getting to play some hockey with my brother-in-law and his friends.

Just as I’m thinking about leaving, my phone buzzes in my pocket.

Charlee:Hey brother! Good game tonight! The new guy is looking amazing!

Me:Hey! Thanks! I see you guys are winning as well. The bar is replaying the east coast games here. Looking forward to our future faceoff. *smirk emoji*

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