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CHAPTER 56 JESSICA

I sat in my Jeep, the silence between Luke and me growing thicker with every passing second. It was a never-

ending void of things I wanted to tell him but was too scared to say. I wanted to tell him I hated him, but that wasn't entirely true. I hated him for asking Tiffany to prom, but at the same time, would I have said yes if he had asked me?

I gripped the steering wheel hard enough to cut off the blood supply to my fingers, my breathing the only thing filling the void between us. Luke hovered, hand on the door. I didn't mean to blurt out that last bit. I was thinking it, but then it spilled over.

I watched Luke, jaw clenched, hand gripping the door. He filled my entire Jeep; he was that big. His scent invaded me, uniquely him, something that made my heart race. I wished it didn't. I wished Luke did not affect me, but that wasn't the case. Luke always made me feel "Jessica," he finally said, his voice low and husky. Just hearing him say my name made hope flutter in my chest, but it was futile. It would be extinguished soon enough, so I swallowed it back down.

Luke wouldn't tell me what was really going on; who was I kidding? For a second, I wondered if he would tell Tiffany. 0.00%

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"It's fine. Don't bother," gritted out through clenched teeth

can get out now," I said with a

climbed out and slammed the door behind him. Josh put a hand on Luke's chest

too hard for me to hear anything. It frustrated me that he wouldn't tell me. That Josh and Luke had this secret, a secret that split us. Luke and Josh were more family than Josh and I ever were. A knot formed in my throat, and my eyes burned. How pathetic- I wanted to

the same: Josh and Luke, and then me, on the outside, looking in and wondering what happened to forge their friendship but break the one I had

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not looking over my shoulder at them, and stalked into the house. I half Laura to be here, but the house was quiet. My parents le it seems so did Luke's. Our parents were best friends from college, and somehow, they made th they were inseparable. Business partners but also family.

they had family, and they didn't need anything more. We just happened to come along

a second, I wondered if Luke felt

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also feel left behind? A

as I stirred the hot cocoa filling the room. The

Mom and Dad are in Paris," I said, more

he said as he sat down at the

didn't push it. I took out two cups and poured the warm chocolate liquid into them, turning to give one to Josh. He seemed surprised but took the cup from me.

"Jess," Josh called, stopping me in my tracks. I turned only