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.

Melvin replied without pause, steady as ever, “and

you avoid her

“Why would I?”

keep chasing after you, try to

to be afraid of,” Melvin said coolly, even a little sharp. “If I’ve already said no and I don’t react at

give her a chance?” Jessica traced idle patterns on her phone, pretending to be casual, but her words carried weight. “What if you get to know her and end up liking

don’t like into my life,” Melvin answered without thinking. To him, anyone who made it

glanced up, her voice soft. “What about me? I’m in your life

exception,” Melvin

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her lips. She looked at him sideways, teasing lightly, “You

Melvin stumbled, completely at

exceptions to

said truthfully, without even thinking. “You and