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“I wouldn’t have offered if I wasn’t serious. Anytime you want to talk, call me.”
“About the break-up?”
“About anything,” I say.
Her eyes crinkle at the corners as she smiles a genuine Lainey smile. “That’s the sort of thing a friend would say, you know?”
“It is?”
She’s laughing now, probably at the shocked expression on my face. “Yeah.”
“It’s a first for me. Actually encouraging a woman to talk to me, I mean.”
“Then maybe I’m your first. Your first female friend.”
I wouldn’t have called her that, but maybe she is. Or she could be. She’s a girl I don’t mind talking to. A girl I talk to instead of having sex with. And she’s the only girl who has ever fit that bill.
Who knows, maybe she’s one of the few people in this world who isn’t better off without me. She sought me out tonight because she wanted something from me that no one else could give her. That means something.
“Maybe you’re right,” I say.
“So... we’re friends, then?”
It’s not going to kill me to have one female friend.
“Sure. Why not?”
Her only response is to squeal and wrap her arms around me, hugging me.
Jesus. What have I gotten myself into?
