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I shook my head. “Not possible.”
“Okay. I’ll shut up about it.”
“Thank you,” I said tightly.
Test the waters. I didn’t even know what the hell that meant. I mean it wasn’t like I was going to…kiss her? How bizarre would that be? To kiss Nora. To feel her lips under my lips. I had to guess it would be like discovering kissing for the first time.
“Liam, no!” Wyatt barked at the television. “He’s looking to egg you into a fight. Stay away from that asshole.”
“What the fuck does testing the waters even mean? In practical terms,” I asked.
Wyatt shrugged and took a sip of beer that drained half the bottle. “It means taking her some place you wouldn’t normally take her. Get out of your comfort zone. Dress up. Take her someplace special.”
“Like a wedding?”
“Exactly, like a wedding. She’ll be dressed up, you’ll be…” he scanned my jeans and t-shirt. We wore the same work boots and he was in sweat pants, so I wasn’t sure what he was getting on hishigh horse about. “Hopefully a better version of you. Maybe you have a nice slow dance, hold her close and just see.”
“See what?” I asked, exacerbated.
What was I going to see? It was going to be Nora. Nora who I adored, cared about and would kill for. None of that had changed in six years. My feelings for her were what they always were, they were just never going to be sexual.
Never?
“Do I really have to spell this out for you?” He asked.
“Yeah,” I said, because I wasn’t sure what I was supposed toseewhen it came to Nora.
“It’s basic biology, man. You wait for the music to slow down, you pull her up close into your chest and you gaze deep into her eyes-”
“Geezus, you sound like a fucking country music song.Your fiancé is rubbing off on you.”
“Hey, you asked the question,” he shoved my shoulder and it made me want to punch him in the face. “You do those things and if your dick twitches…welp, then she’s not a friend.”
“Dick twitch, that’s your answer?”
“To this particular question, yes.”
Not a friend. More than a friend? It seemed like a mistake waiting to happen. Like the whole thing could blow up, leaving me without her. These last six years had been grim, without her. I wasn’t interested in seeing that stretch out for the rest of my life.
Wyatt leaned back against the couch. Took a pull on his beer and sighed like a man who was content with his life. There was something about his ease that made me jealous. “It’s basic biology. If your dick twitches…it means you want to fuck her.”
Fuck Nora?
Fuck me.
13
Terry’s Wedding
Nick
“Okay, you guys. I know you ask me all the time if I’m dating. Answer, no. French men are…complicated. Or maybe they’re simple? I don’t know. I don’t know if it’s because I’m American, but I just don’t…get them. Like they come on strong. So strong, I’m sure it must be fake. No one can be immediately in love or in lust or intrigued with me at first sight. All those things take a while. Come on guys, back me up.”
In this videoshe was sitting on the edge of a fountain and she must have known how the sunlight would hit the water because she looked like she was surrounded by glitter. She wore a bright blue hat I’d never seen her wear and she looked…baffled.
When I did the math in my head, I realized she would have posted this video and these thoughts two weeks after meeting Rene.
Watching the video for the millionth time, I wished I could go back and warn her. I would tell her that her instincts would never steer her wrong, but they’d steered her up my steps the night of her 18thbirthday and that had been a mistake.
