Page 75 of Sleeping with the Frenemy

“I know.”

Sofi sucked her teeth. “Shut the fuck up. There’s no way. No. There’s no possible way.”

Kamilah gave her one of those full body winces that all but scream,Well...

Sofi’s jaw dropped. “There’s. No. Fucking. Way.”

“To be fair, until recently I only suspected. But please, you’re my best friend, he’s my brother, of course I knew.”

Sofi sat there in silence, trying to pick up the pieces of her blown mind. “Wait,” she said suddenly. “What do you mean ‘until recently’?”

“I sort of walked in on you two asleep in your bed the morning of the festival. I was looking for Leo and then I heard what sounded like a dog in your room, so I had to investigate. I booked it out of there before the dog woke either of you up, but honestly, I wasn’t surprised.” Kamilah rolled her eyes. “I mean damn. I know I can be a bit in my own world, but y’all act like I walk around in an alternate universe.”

“I just. I... Why didn’t you call me out?”

“Honestly, I felt like it wasn’t my business. I knew that if it ever became something important enough, you’d tell me. If I’d have known that you were both making me your scapegoat, I would’ve busted your asses out years ago.”

“You don’t get it. We have fought about telling you for literal years. Years. And this whole time he was right.”

“Leo said that I knew?”

“No. He said that you wouldn’t care.”

“I mean I wouldn’t say that I don’t care, and Liam certainly had to listen to me rage about it for a few days, but I’m not upset anymore. I’m happy for you actually.”

“You are?”

“Hell yeah. I know I complain about him all the time, but my brother is a really good guy. However, he’s the lucky one. You are an amazing, strong, smart, sweet, beautiful but badass orchid mantis who’s as majestic as a...narwhal. And you smell like springtime!”

Sofi didn’t really know what the hell Kamilah was talking about, but she knew that it was said with love, because her glassy eyes were blinking up at Sofi like she’d just cured cancer or something.

“I really do love you,” Sofi told her with wet eyes.

“I love you too!” Kamilah threw her arms around Sofi.

They stayed like that for a while, crying and voicing their love for each other over and over.

“What in the white girl wasted...?” Liza’s voice said from the side.

Sofi and Kamilah pulled away from each other, wiping their eyes.

“Here they are! We found them!” Lucy shouted to someone out of sight.

Within moments Alex and Gabi stepped into Sofi’s line of sight.

Alex’s look was one of secondhand embarrassment. “Drunk crying in the club? Really?”

Kamilah gave Sofi a look that said,Do you want to tell them or should I?

Sofi waved her on. She didn’t have the energy or mental capacity do tell the whole story again.

When Kamilah finished everyone was quiet for a moment.

“Is that what this is about?” Lucy rolled her eyes. “We’ve been known.”

“Who’s ‘we’?” Liza asked. “Because I sure didn’t. I’m flabbergasted.”

“Yeah me too,” Alex said. “I’m flabbergasted as hell.”

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