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need to go. Now. I’m sure you remember the way out.”
    Darting up the stairs towards my room, I run and jump onto my bed. Curling up into a fetal position, I hug my pillow and let the tears fall.
     

 

     
     
    Once again, Andi’s darting away from me before I can stand my ground. Quite frankly, it’s starting to piss me off. Why does she keep pushing me away so hard? She isn’t the only one who’s been suffering, and I don’t know about her, but I’ve been missing her like crazy. Now that she’s back, there’s no way I want to keep going like this. For her to be so close and not be able to talk is hell. No, this fight has to stop. Maybe she’s right, maybe we can’t go back to the way it was before, but if last night proved anything it’s that she feels something too.
    I remember the first time I felt it. We were at senior prom. I was rocking my tuxedo, of course, and Andi . . . Shit, she was so damn hot in that floor-length aqua dress of hers that I thought I was going to come undone as soon as I saw her. Several of our friends were going stag, but I’d figured out what color her dress was going to be so I got my cummerbund and tie to match. Corny, I know, but I wanted her to be my date so bad, I just couldn’t get up the courage to ask her.
    When I pulled into her driveway, as I had done a thousand times before, my palms were all sweaty and my heart was pounding. Then, when she came down those stairs, my heart stopped until she was standing in front of me. I held up the corsage I had surprised her with, and I swear she had tears in her eyes for just a split second before she smiled that big smile of hers, showing me her perfect teeth. Yeah, that was the first time I truly thought I might swallow my tongue, wishing she would sink those teeth right into me.
    Just the memory of that night, standing right here in the same spot, is enough to make me hard. Fuck, I need to get my head straight and stop thinking about the past. The past is over, and it’s apparent that we aren’t going to have a future.
    I don’t know though; I saw the fire in her eyes last night on the dock just before my eyes locked on those succulent lips of hers. Man, I wish I knew how those lips would taste on my tongue. Yes, it is definitely time to make a decision—seduce her until she caves and admits she wants me just as much as I want her; or not say a word, steer clear of her until she leaves, and then go back to life as it was before her visit this week. Except this time, I’ll know we aren’t meant to happen and will let her go.
    Hmmm, it’s time I did some serious thinking.
    I head back out to my truck, nodding at Ron on the way off the porch.
    “Hold up, son. I’ve decided I’m going to ride to the shop with you this morning; that way, Andi can use my truck if she needs to go anywhere. You wouldn’t mind now, would you?” Ron says as he kisses Bev good-bye and climbs in the passenger side of the truck.
    “No, guess not,” I reply, turning the truck around before heading to the shop. Of course, it isn’t like he gave me a choice.
    “So, that was pretty quick in there. Did you and Andi make up?”
    “Ron, I appreciate your concern where Andi and I are concerned, but there is no need for you to be involved.”
    “Is that so? Well then, do you care to explain to me why it’s taken my daughter this long to come home for a visit? Not to mention, it took you almost a year before I saw your face again. You make sure to not ask any direct questions, yet your ears are always perked when anything is being said about her. Son, you two may have been fooling yourselves all this time, but you’re not fooling me, her mother, or anyone else for that matter. You two are meant to be together, and the only ones who don’t know it are you and Andi. Now, you already lost her once; are you honestly willing to do it again? Are you really willing to risk her meeting someone she decides to settle down with while knowing she couldn’t