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Chapter 86
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2026-04-27 23:33:12
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Summer's Pov Lunch was supposed to be just us.That was the thing. Tyler and I had a whole system, a whole routine, and it had always just been the two of us and that was exactly how it worked. We didn't need a third person. We had never needed a third person.But Tyler was still talking to Susan when I picked up my tray and he looked at her and then at me and said, "Susan can come with us, right?"It wasn't even a question really. It came out like it was already decided.Susan turned to me with this carefully polite expression, the kind that was leaving the door open for me to object if I wanted to. "I hope that's okay? I don't want to intrude."Every reasonable part of me knew the correct response."Of course," I said. "I don't mind at all."I minded enormously.We found our usual table and I set my tray down and looked up to find that Susan had sat down beside Tyler, which meant Tyler was now beside Susan and across from me, and the geometry of the whole thing felt like something
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Summer's PovI thought about it the whole way home.Which was embarrassing. Tyler had just told me he had feelings for me, which was the actual significant thing that had happened today, and instead of processing that I was sitting in the back of the car while James drove, thinking about a girl I had never seen before in my life and the way she had walked up to Tyler like she already knew exactly where he would be.It wasn't my business.Tyler didn't owe me information about every person in his life. He had friends I hadn't met. That was normal. People had lives outside of the people who knew them.I stared out the window.She had hugged him though.Gray had texted while I was still at the ice cream place saying he had gone out to handle something and would be back in the evening. I read the message and looked at the little bracelet on my wrist and felt something soft and quiet move through me.Crew's car was in the driveway when James pulled up.I registered that the way I always reg
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Summer's PovI didn't have a good reason for lying to Tyler.That was the thing that bothered me most walking back to the car with Gray. Not the lie itself, which was small and stupid, but the fact that I had done it so easily. Tyler called and the lie just came out, smooth and automatic, like I had been practicing.I didn't like that about myself.When we got home Gray made food and I helped without either of us talking much, just moving around the kitchen in that comfortable way we had developed without deciding to, and by the time we sat down it felt almost normal.Then Crew walked in.He looked at the two of us at the table and something moved through his face that he shut down fast. He got his own plate and sat down and the three of us ate and the silence was the specific kind that had too much inside it to be comfortable.I broke it because I needed to say something that wasn't about any of us."When do you think our parents are coming back?"Crew looked up. "You mean my dad and
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Tyler's PovOne thing I had always known about myself was that I never pushed people.I didn't ask questions people weren't ready to answer. I didn't dig where someone had clearly put up a wall. I figured if you were around someone long enough and made yourself safe enough, they would come to you when they were ready. That was how I operated. That was how I had always operated.So hearing Crew say she was hiding a lot from me hit differently than I expected.Not because it was a surprise exactly. I had felt it for weeks, that slight distance, the way Summer would answer a question and say just enough without saying anything real. I had noticed. I just hadn't pushed.And now I was standing outside the rink with my bag over my shoulder thinking about what kind of best friend notices and says nothing.I didn't go home right away. I walked to the park nearby because I needed air and space and somewhere that wasn't practice or people or noise, just somewhere I could think without anyone lo
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Crew's PovI almost didn't go back inside.We had pulled up to grab the tape I'd forgotten and I was already thinking about practice, already in that headspace where everything outside the rink stopped mattering, and then I looked up and saw them.Summer and Gray walking out together.She was in a yellow dress. Her hair was different, soft and coiled, and she had this small gold bangle catching the light and she looked beautiful, genuinely beautiful, and she was laughing at something Gray had said and Gray was looking at her the way I had been trying to stop myself from looking at her for weeks.I stood by the car and watched them get into Gray's car and the door closed and they were gone.Marcus said something beside me. I didn't hear it."Crew.""Let's go," I said.I grabbed what I needed from the house and got back in the car and told myself to stop. I had told her to stay away. I had made that call with both eyes open and I needed to live inside it instead of standing on the lawn
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Summer's PovTyler caught me before I even made it to the parking lot.He fell into step beside me with that easy energy he always had at the end of the school day, like the hours had cost him nothing."Lunch," he said. "Our spot. Let's go.""I can't today." I shifted my bag on my shoulder. "I have something at home."He gave me a look. "Something at home.""Something at home, Tyler.""That's very vague.""It's meant to be."He was quiet for a step or two and then he said, "You're not going to pull a Ruby on me, right? Because I cannot do that again. I refuse."I stopped walking and looked at him. "I am never going to pull a Ruby on you. I promise. Lunch tomorrow, okay? Properly. I'll be there."He studied my face for a moment the way Tyler did when he was deciding whether to push. Then he nodded. "Tomorrow. I'm holding you to it."I squeezed his arm and kept walking.James was already at the gate. I got in and leaned my head back and watched the city go past the window and thought ab
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