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The Boy I Wasn't Supposed To Want. Chapter 59
Callum drove down on Friday, arriving later than he'd planned, an accident on the highway pushing his four hours into nearly six. Ivy was waiting on her porch steps when he finally pulled up.He opened his arms. Ivy hesitated half a second before stepping into them."Hi," she said, muffled against his shoulder."Hi."They ordered takeout instead of cooking, too tired from the week to manage much else, and ate at her small kitchen table in a quiet that wasn't quite comfortable and wasn't quite tense either."I talked to Noah," Ivy said eventually. "He apologized properly. Told me he understood he'd misread the whole bonfire thing for years. I told him the truth, that I didn't want to kiss him then either.""How do you feel about that?""Relieved, mostly." Ivy pushed her food around her plate. "I told him I needed time to figure out whether we're staying friends.""Do you want to?""I don't know.""That's not really an answer.""Because I don't have one yet, Callum.""Okay." He went qui
The Boy I Wasn't Supposed To Want. Chapter 58
Ivy didn't hear from Noah for four days, and when she finally did, it was a text, careful and short.Noah: Can I see you before you head back to school? I don't want anything. I just need to actually say this in person instead of hiding behind a screen.She almost said no. Sat with the message for the better part of an hour.Ivy: The coffee shop. Thirty minutes.He was already there when she arrived, no easy grin this time. He looked smaller somehow, sitting alone at their usual table."Thank you for coming," he said, standing awkwardly as she approached."I almost didn't." Ivy sat down across from him, arms crossed."I know." Noah's hands were wrapped around a coffee he wasn't drinking. "I've had a few days to think about what I actually want to say.""Go ahead.""I crossed a line," Noah said, meeting her eyes. "You pulled away. That told me everything I needed to know, and instead of respecting it, I kept building some story in my head for years about what that pulling away actually
The Boy I Wasn't Supposed To Want. Chapter 57
Callum called the next morning, finally, his voice rough like he hadn't slept much either."Noah came to see me yesterday," he said, no preamble.Ivy's stomach dropped. "He what?""Showed up at my hotel. Wanted to explain himself, apparently.""Explain what?""That there's history between you two I didn't know about. A bonfire, junior year. He said you two almost kissed, that you pulled away, and he's spent years assuming that meant you were scared, not that you didn't want it."Ivy sat down hard on her kitchen chair. "There was a bonfire. We were sixteen. It was one stupid, awkward almost-moment that neither of us ever mentioned again.""You never mentioned it at all," Callum said. "That's the part I keep getting stuck on.""Because it wasn't significant to me. I'm not keeping a file on every guy I've ever talked to, Callum. How was I supposed to know some dumb thing from when I was sixteen would suddenly matter?""Maybe it didn't mean anything to you. It clearly meant something to h
The Boy I Wasn't Supposed To Want. Chapter 56
Ivy called four times on the walk back to her apartment, each one going straight to voicemail.Ivy: Please call me back. I know what it looked like. I need you to actually hear me.Ivy: I didn't kiss him back. I pulled away the second it happened.Ivy: Callum, please.No response came. She sat on her couch until well past midnight, phone in her lap, refreshing nothing, waiting for a text bubble that never appeared. Somewhere around one in the morning she finally gave up and went to bed, though sleep didn't come easily, her mind replaying the same two seconds over and over, trying to find the version where she'd seen it coming in time to stop it.Noah sat in his car outside the hotel for nearly twenty minutes before he made himself go in.He told himself this was the right thing to do. Callum deserved to know this wasn't random. That there was history here worth understanding.Callum answered the door already looking like he hadn't slept, jaw tight, eyes red-rimmed."I know you probabl
The Boy I Wasn't Supposed To Want. Chapter 55
Callum surprised her.He hadn't mentioned it during their call, just texted her Friday afternoon while she was leaving Hargrove: Look up. And there he was, leaning against his car across the street, a small, hopeful smile on his face, a duffel bag in the back seat."You didn't tell me you were coming," Ivy said, crossing the street in disbelief."I wanted to surprise you. Figured after everything this week, we needed actual time together instead of another phone call." Callum pulled her into a hug, tight and a little desperate. "I took tomorrow off. I'm here until Sunday."They spent that evening quietly, dinner at her apartment, careful and gentle with each other, both of them making an effort neither fully articulated, just present, trying.Saturday afternoon, Ivy had already promised Noah weeks ago that she'd help him move a few boxes into his new apartment, and she debated canceling before deciding it would only reignite the pattern she'd promised to stop."I told Noah I'd help hi
The Boy I Wasn't Supposed To Want. Chapter 54
Ivy found out how it happened three days later, back at her own apartment, scrolling absently through Priya's Thanksgiving photo dump on Instagram before her afternoon shift at Hargrove.A group shot near the trailhead, tagged and timestamped, Noah's arm slung casually around Ivy's shoulders, both of them squinting against the sun, laughing at something outside the frame. Priya had tagged Noah's account along with half a dozen other people from their old friend group who'd apparently also been at the trailhead parking lot that morning, overlapping plans nobody had coordinated.Ivy's stomach dropped. She hadn't even known Priya had been there.Her phone buzzed before she could figure out what, if anything, to do about it.Callum: You went hiking?Ivy's heart sank straight through the floor.Ivy: I was going to tell you.Callum: When?She stared at the screen, no good answer arriving fast enough to save her.Ivy: Can we talk on the phone instead of texting about this?**The call connect
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