Off The Ice Rink
Just real, for once, instead of the script we both usually follow.
"Of course I do," I say, and it's not even a lie, not exactly. Because I do like her. I like her the way you like a friend, the way you like someone who's been kind to you your whole life. It's just not the kind of liking she means, and we both know it, and neither of us has ever said it out loud.
"Okay," she says again, softer this time, and there's something sad in it that makes my chest ache with guilt I can't fully name. "Goodnight, Liam."
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