Page 78 of Win Some Love Some
“No,” I shouted again. “No. I just like having her back. I like her in my world again. She’s always been important to me. Then you told me all that bullshit about testing the waters and it wasn’t supposed to work. I wasn’t supposed to…”
“Want to fuck her,” Wyatt said bluntly.
I closed my eyes. How did I communicate this properly? “Putting the word fuck and Nora in the same sentence makes my brain want to explode.”
“Ha! I get that, my brother. I would have told you no one hated Kit more than me. I was lying to myself the whole time.”
“I’m not lying,” I insisted. “This is complicated as fuck. I’m not supposed to want my friend. My significantly younger, known her since she was three years old, friend.”
“But you do,” Wyatt said.
“Will you stop with the blunt shit.”
“Wyatt excels at the blunt shit, Nick. Listen to him. He won’t let you lie to yourself.”
“There’s no point,” Wyatt confirmed. “You tested the waters, and the waters were hot. How did she react?”
Should I tell them about the swish? Or how mad she got? Should I tell them I was a little bit scared of her right now?
“She’s basically smarter than anyone else in the room and she got me all turned around and now I’m taking her to another wedding.”
“You are so fucked, dude!”
“That’s what I said!” I plopped down in the rocking chair next to the couch, my head in my hands. “She was all like, it shouldn’t be a big deal, because I basically told her it was a one-off.”
“What was a one-off?” Wyatt asked.
“My reaction to her at the wedding.”
“The dick twitch?”
“It was a little more than a dick twitch.”
Liam howled with laughter.
“How do I stop my reaction at the next wedding?” I waited a beat, but there was nothing. Not from Wyatt. Or Liam. “Oh sure, now you both go silent.”
“There’s only one thing you can do.”
“Agree,” Wyatt said. “You’re not going to like it.”
“Tell me!”
“You have to fuck her out of your system.”
“You have to fuck her out of your system,” Wyatt repeated.
“I liked it better when I didn’t know either one of you existed,” I replied.
“You know it’s true,” Wyatt said. “There is no way out. Once you’re attracted, you can’t be un-attracted unless she gives you the ick. Which, let’s face it, if it hasn’t happened yet, probably won’t. So you like her, you like spending time with her, otherwise you wouldn’t have hired her to work for you…”
“Oh man, you did that too? I hired Kit and after that it was all over for me.”
“I don’t know why I bothered to come here,” I said and stood up.
Wyatt stood too and reached out to drop a heavy hand on my shoulder. “You came because you knew we would listen, and we would not judge. Look, I know we can be stubborn assholes-”
“Not me. I’m delightful!”
