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Here’s to the 10 characters, 5 couples, 3 teams, 2 sets of siblings, and 1 amazing friend group that changed my life. This one is dedicated to you, the readers. Thank you for hanging out in Chicago with me.
“You’ve been living next to their sister this whole time and never mentioned it?” Kai shakes his head with a laugh. “And you’ve spent all these years fanboying over Ryan?” “Well yeah, he’s Ryan fucking Shay.” Rio turns to him. “Don’t worry, honey. Cruz Wilder will never be you.”
“Wren is great. She’s been an awesome neighbor and I’m going to miss her when she moves.” “She’s moving?” Ryan asks, outraged. “You had four years to tell us about her and her family and now she’s moving?”
“Not exactly. I didn’t know what number to choose when I was a kid, so I picked the number of my favorite day, which was, of course, my birthday. August third. Eighty-three.”
wanted to keep eighty-three, but I decided it was time to change it to my actual favorite day.” My birthday. March eighth. Thirty-eight. He’s been wearing my birthdate on his jersey for six years and I had no idea.
“So, you like really like me, huh?” I tease quietly for only him to hear. “I think we both know it’s a little deeper than that, even if we’re still pretending it’s one of those unspoken things.”
“And I have for fifteen years, Hal. You’ve had me hooked since the day you became the girl next door.”
Hallie slides onto my lap, while the others find their way to their person. Then it’s the ten of us. How it was always supposed to be.
And I…well, I found love because it was always out there, waiting for me, even when I questioned its existence. In fact, I found it right next door—where it had always been.
I’ll speak for all ten of us when I say, there’s nowhere else we’d rather be.
