What I want w-with you is to just be my boyfriend. Not my second boyfriend or my other boyfriend. I just want you to be my boyfriend, like Deimos. You’re not lesser than him, you’re not our Third.”
Her hands were shaking as she pushed her hair out of her face. She sucked in another shaky breath.
“B-But I understand if you don’t want that. I just want to let you know that we’re willing to work things out. Just…give us this one last adventure, and if you want, then we can all return back to ‘normal’ when school hits. We can all be friends again. And only friends.” She paused and studied the floor for a moment. “We are friends.”
Kalmin swallowed thickly. He closed his eyes and nodded slowly.
“Ok,” he mumbled softly. “Ok,” he said, a little harder. “We’ll do this one last adventure. As f
