“Why are you here?” I asked, repeating her question.
“Same.” Her reply was with a sigh.
My mind moved back to that night.
The night I'd caught her and Cole having an argument where she'd said he wasn't her boyfriend.
Just that word caught me in many ways.
Its meaning wasn't clear, but one thing my brain grabbed was the possibility of her being single.
She might not be with anyone. Not Cole. Not anyone.
Wow.
Something arose in me thinking about it. That something felt like celebration.
Which was why I hadn't m cared about anything else but to bring her over to my place and almost give her a kiss.
A kiss I yearned for at that moment.
But I had to control myself.
So I asked. “Is this because of you and Cole?”
Maybe it was my imagination, but I thought her shoulders tensed slig
