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My mouth goes dry as my eyes slowly work their way up her torso, to her neckline, and then to her face and . . . something hits me. Something so strong, so foreign that I don’t know how to categorize it. Like this overwhelming sense of . . . breathlessness. For a moment, my heart actually stopped beating, and the world stopped spinning, and everything was on pause as she came into view.
What feels like a million butterflies take flight in my stomach as I attempt to put words to what’s going on in my head.
The thought of kissing her consumes me, and I’ve never had that thought before, not since the first night I met her. It’s like those ten years have rushed back in a fury, like a snapshot of time unfolding in a blink of an eye, taking me all the way back to the moment I ran into her in the hallway. Where I first saw those perfectly placed freckles of hers and the confusion in her expression.
“You’re in love with your best friend, and you just finally realized it.”
“Jesus fucking Christ,” I say as I look up at Banner. “Fuck, I think I like her.” Banner shakes his head. “Nah, man. You love her. End of discussion.”
First and foremost, I love her. I let that sink in. I let myself sit in my feelings and understand them. Lia is the most precious person in my life. She’s my ride or die. She means everything to me. She’s my girl.
“And that is why you are my best friend,” she says. Yeah, if only I was so much more.
I’m the man who deserves her hand. I’m the fucking man who can and WILL make her happy.
“One of my greatest faults would be not asking you out on a date the first night I met you.”
