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Denial.

No one gets on all your nerves like that person does>>                                                            

If anyone had told me a month ago what happened yesterday would happen, I'd have laughed my head off and pointed them in the direction of a psychiatric hospital. But of course, the universe just had to prove me wrong by making my life a lot more complicated.

Just what I needed right now.

"You're going to drive me crazy Shortstack."

Yeah I couldn't stop thinking about it no matter how hard I tried and I hated that I couldn't. Feelings I was trying so hard to get rid of came rushing like an avalanche when he caught me off guard and kissed me in the hallway. My traitorous body followed suit and practically jumped him, clinging to him like my life depended on it.

The thought alone made me angry that Gage could have that kind of effect on me and confused as to where the situation left us.   A small part of me couldn't ignore the warm feeling I felt in the pit of my stomach as much as I refused to acknowledge it.

You want him.Don't deny it. My nosy subconscious interjected.

Shut up!

"Why do you have that look on your face?" Paige inquired, breaking my train of thoughts. A look of curiosity appeared on her face and almost immediately heat crept on my cheeks.

I put on my best poker face."What look?"

She gave me a are you kidding? expression. "You were frowning and had your nose all scrunched up."

Oh it's nothing much just that Gage's the nephew to one of my dad's friends and we had dinner with them yesterday.And did I also tell you Gage kissed me and I let him because I wanted it.Yeah that's about it, I could tell them that.

I should.

"Gage and I, we kissed." I blurted out.I could always tell them the rest later.

Amy and Paige stared at me at the same time with matching looks of glee on their faces. "Took you guys a lot longer than I thought." Amy responded with a satisfied look while I just stared blankly.

Paige nodded in total agreement. "I know you both left me on purpose at the library with him when we were supposed to leave together the other day.You really didn't think I would let it go, did you?" I glared at them with folded arms. Lord knows how they planned the whole set up and frankly I'm the least bit interested in that right now.

"Okay maybe we shouldn't have done that and let nature take its course but you didn't want to acknowledge your growing feelings for him so we thought to give it a little nudge,you know?" Paige stated, wagging her eyebrows. "Now look how that turned out."

"It was just a kiss.Nothing more."  I convinced them and myself that it didn't mean anything but I didn't even come close and to think we almost—I shivered lightly at the thought and shoved it to the deepest part of my mind.

"Have you seen the way Gage looks at you?I mean it's so damn obvious." Amy faced me squarely. I rolled my eyes at the conversation I knew all too well and how it would end with them trying to put ideas in my head. I already had enough to think about at the moment and didn't need to get my hopes high only to have it crushed.

"And don't think we haven't seen the way you also look at him when you think no one's watching. So when are you going to stop being stubborn and strong headed about it and accept your feelings for him?"

"I have,okay? Now can we drop it?" I scowled in annoyance and without thinking my eyes found their way to the back where he was sitting with the boys, looking calm as ever as he watched his friends banter. We had not said a word to each other today and it was definitely not because I was avoiding him or anything.