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school function. The one time he got to do the spirit cheer with me when Chad was sick.
    So many times when Kyle was watching and I didn’t know it. So many times he wanted to touch me or call me and was never allowed. I felt bad but what could I do?
    “It doesn’t matter anymore does it? It’s too late. There’s no point in you acting like this, it doesn’t help anything. It just makes us both feel bad.” His face dropped as he leaned back, his expression as forlorn as ever so I softened my tone. “Kyle, please. I want to be your friend but you can’t do this. I’m sorry. I wish I could help but I can’t and Caleb isn’t going to like this. Let go.”
    “If I could just make you see. Just once, kiss you for real and you’d see how much I want you. We’d be good together and you know me. You’ve known me forever, Maggie,” he sighed and touched my cheek.
    “Just because we’ve known each other doesn’t mean we belong together,” I told him and turned away from his touch.
    “You don’t have any idea,” he said sadly. “All you can think about is Caleb and it makes me sick watching you two all day.”
    “In all fairness, I left. We came to California. You’re the one who came here . Stop this, please. Let go.”
    He did, almost pushing me away and sighed harshly, letting his head fall back.
    I heard Caleb then in the kitchen so I got out and trained my mind so I wouldn’t think about what Kyle was trying to do. Caleb would see it eventually but I wasn’t in the mood to deal with it today.
    We ate lunch, as I talked about the beach and avoided Kyle’s gaze, and Caleb was right, his spaghetti was pretty good. Then they played video games and I read a book from the library until later on. In the evening, we got ready to go to the pier party.
    I put on a long sun dress I’d brought. It was blue and white and had little ruffles on the front with halter straps. I slipped on my flops and earrings. I fixed my hair just like the lady had the day before. It was still cute and I still really liked it.
    When I came down and saw Caleb in his khaki cargo shorts, flops and green Carolina Liar shirt, I sighed in contentment. He was pretty adorable.
    He turned to me smirking, reading me, and beckoned me to come. All four of us, walked down the beach to the pier. It wasn’t that far and I could see the party already raging and hear the thump of the music.
    You look great.
    I looked at him and could see his face barely in the moonlight.
    Thanks. So do you. The band t-shirts are really growing on me.
    Well, we’ll have to start going to concerts. I haven’t been to one in a couple weeks. That’s like a record or something.
    Yeah, we should.
    You know, Mutemath is playing here this coming up weekend. I wish Mom was here. She loves them.
    Your mom? Your mom loves Mutemath?
    Yes, loves them.
That’s so weird. I like them too.
    Well, we should go.
    Ok, sounds good.
    We walked up with Kyle and Bish behind us to a wild party. There were already tons of beer bottles littering the beach and it just got started. Kyle took off the second we got there.
    “Let’s get something to drink,” I suggested over the loud music.
    “You can think again if you believe I’m going to let you drink alcohol, Maggie,” Bish scolded.
    “I wasn’t,” I insisted.
    “It’s ok. We can’t drink alcohol anyway,” Caleb spouted and then looked a little bit chagrined.
    Crap .
    “Why can’t you?” Bish asked suspiciously.
    “Because we’re not old enough,” Caleb replied.
    Aces can’t drink alcohol. Something in our blood doesn’t handle it right.
    Really? Then a thought came. That’s why you took my drink at that party before? He nodded slightly. It wouldn’t have mattered. I don’t drink anyway.
    Well good because you can’t now even if you wanted to. It makes us super, super drunk, like borderline alcohol poisoning. You want a soda or something? I’m sure they have something here.
    Yeah. I’ll stay with Bish I