Page 51 of Lost in You (Flirting with Forever 1)

Me: But also dinner and dancing …

Me: Getting to know Shawn a lot better …

Hadleigh: Get to the good stuff.

Zoey: Wait, are the BFF and the ex-BF the same person?

Me: Bingo. Chase.

Sophia: Nooo. Say it isn’t so.

Me: Oh, yes. It’s been quite the wild ride.

Hadleigh: How about the fun kind of ride?

Piper: Start small, Had. Did you kiss him?

Zoey: Who, Chase or Shawn?

Sophia: SHAWN. Definitely Shawn.

Sophia: Right, Madi?

Me: I wouldn’t kiss Chase if you paid me.

I take a deep, fortifying breath and forge on, done with all the secrets.

Me: It actually came out that Chase cheated on me more than once. It’s a whole story, but essentially, I went into this weekend believing that Shawn had cheated on Dana, but the real truth is that it was a lie Chase made up to cover up the fact that he’d cheated on me.

Piper: We’re going to need the long version of that story at some point. It sounds like a real whopper.

Quinn: What an asshole!

Zoey: He sounds like a real slimeball.

Hadleigh: Okay, we’ve established that he’s gross and you’re done with him.

Hadleigh: But you skipped over whether or not you and Shawn played tonsil-hockey.

Hadleigh: Or maybe you’re already to the horizontal mambo.

Piper: Maybe they’ve decided to just be friends.

Me: We definitely aren’t just friends.

Sophia: Atta girl.

Me: But he doesn’t know I’m the one who talked to Dana, warning her about his cheating.

Sophia: Uh-oh.

Quinn: But to be clear, he didn’t cheat.

Zoey: What a mess.

Me: No, he didn’t. And I didn’t lie. I only told the truth as I knew it.

Me: I’m still hoping it works out. I have to tell him, but I’m still trying to figure out how.

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