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“And if it were me, I would have called you as soon as I got to Kingston.”
“Are you fucking kidding me, Sam?”
“You know, that dress was hot, but this is a much better look on you.”
“That was the hottest thing that’s ever happened to me.”
“I’ve picked up one or two moves since then,”
“Why did you break up with her?” “You know why.”
“You drive me crazy, you know that? You always have.”
“I’ve tried to forget about you for more than ten years, but I don’t want to try anymore.”
mouth. I want to climb him,
“I’m not good enough for you,” I tell him. “I don’t deserve you. Or your friendship. And especially not anything more than friendship.”
“But you didn’t let me practice this.”
“I’ve waited a long time for this. I’m not in a hurry,”
report back on any “skanky-ass losers” she saw him with—and
“Only for you, Pers,”
“She’s just worried you’re going to figure out who the better brother is,”
“Did you apply to this thing so you could get away from me?”
worried that what Sam was building for himself wouldn’t have room for me in it.
hit me like jet fuel.
“Show-off,” I muttered.
And I miss you so much. I can’t concentrate sometimes because I’m thinking about you and what you might be doing.
Because talking to me made him feel lonely. I was a distraction. I was holding him back from his future.
“So was this whole email bullshit? You just want more time to get drunk with other girls?”
until I opened my eyes and stared up into a pair of green eyes. The wrong eyes.
The wrong brother.
telling him it was a huge mistake, telling him I hated him, telling him I hated me.
I want you to marry me.”
And you’re always there with me. You have to be there with me,”
“I slept with Charlie,”
“You fucked Charlie. I asked you how it was.”
“Yeah,” he rasps. “I knew.”
“He hit on me. He told me I looked good and asked if I wanted to go upstairs.”
“Then you come home, P. And I’ll tell you why he’s wrong.”
“I think his feelings for you are basically the exact opposite.”
“You always thought I was perfect.”
but I think I also wanted to hurt you the way you hurt me.
“I fell in love with you when I was thirteen, and I never stopped. You’re it for me.”
And I will get down on one knee and ask Sam Florek to be with me. To be my family. Forever.