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“I understand,” Nicole says, her voice full of sympathy. “You can’t
always choose who you fall for.”
“Exactly.”
“Don’t worry.” She sounds upbeat and I’m relieved that she’s not
casting me away just because my heart has bad taste. “Eventually
he’ll break your heart and maybe Troy and I will be there to glue the
pieces back together.”
That’s a cheerful thought.
“I hope you won’t have to.” I smile. Nicole is a true friend—which
makes me think of Cesca and Nola. They would love Nicole. Cesca
would love her willingness to say what she’s really thinking and
Nola would appreciate how she is an individual and doesn’t care
what others think of her. We would make a great foursome. Maybe
one day we can all hang out together.
“So, I can’t talk you out of this?”
I shake my head. Time for full disclosure. “There’s more to this
than a, um, crush.”
She lifts her eyebrows.
“I made a bargain with Stella.”
She doesn’t say anything, just keeps looking at me expectantly.
“She’s offered to tutor me in Modern Greek and to help convince
her dad not to keep me here for another year.”
“In exchange for what, your firstborn child?”
“In exchange for splitting up Griffin and Adara.”
Another low whistle. “You made a deal with Hades, you know.”
“Yeah,” I say, defeated. “I know.”
“Cheer up,” she says as she stacks our trays of untouched—except
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