She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 1386:

Jessica noticed his silence and kept going. “You know what Gerard’s like. He’s fine with joking around, but the moment he hears someone’s into him, he gets all awkward and distant.”

“Yeah,” Melvin agreed. That really was Gerard to a T.

“So yeah.”

“What are you planning to do now?” Melvin asked, still a little thrown. He never saw her and Gerard as anything more than friends.

“I’ll just go with the flow.” Jessica shrugged. “See what happens. And what about you?”

“What?” Melvin asked.

“If a girl liked you and told you how she felt, but you didn’t feel the same… what would you do?” Jessica’s voice was careful, almost tentative.

replied without pause, steady as

avoid her after

“Why would I?”

you, try to worm

even a little sharp. “If I’ve already said no and I don’t react at all, she’ll only

patterns on her phone, pretending to be casual, but her

answered without thinking. To him, anyone who made it into his life had to matter.

glanced up, her voice soft. “What about

the exception,” Melvin said, his tone

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looked at him sideways, teasing lightly, “You do realize telling a girl she’s the exception kind of

Melvin stumbled, completely at

people are exceptions to you?”

without even