“I’m pretty sure,” Brian said. “I tried being with a girl once, at my old high school, and it didn’t work for me. It just didn’t feel right.”
But could it feel right with me?
“When I saw you this morning, I wondered if this happened because we both wished for it.”
I took a moment to let that sink in. Was that why the wish had come true, because Brian had wanted it as much as I did? “Why didn’t you tell me?” I asked. “We could have talked about it. We always talk about the important stuff.”
“Because, the last few years, you’ve been getting into romance novels and all that other stuff and I didn’t want you to get the wrong impression. I didn’t want you to have this romantic idea that because we’re best friends, gender doesn’t matter. On some level, it doesn’t. I will always love you. As
