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find it hard to hold back a
small laugh. Kelly isn’t going to let up about this either. When
she wants something, she’ll do anything to get it. I release a long
sigh. “Did you ever think about where we live and what your chances
of actually finding the one are? Slim. Like, zero chances slim,” I
curl my fingers into a zero. “I’m not going, and neither are you. I
don’t think it’s safe.”
    I step into the dressing room and change back
into my black leggings and cream oversized sweater. When she
doesn’t reply with a quick witted comment like usual, I start to
think I’ve hurt her feelings. But just as I slip my first brown
boot on, her voice is calm and determined from the other side of my
door.
    “You’re going to this event with me, and do
you know why?” she asks, and for a moment I think she’s actually in
my dressing room. She’s up to something. Something bad. “Because if
you don’t go with me, I’ll come to the library’s end-of-the-year
events and make sure Parker knows exactly how you feel about him.
Childish you say? No, more like motivation to help make sure my
best friend doesn’t miss out on a chance to be happy. So, if you
really really think not dating Parker is the right choice. You’ll
date someone else, at the dark dating thing.”
    I close my eyes and breathe. Damn…she’s good.
If it’ll get her to drop the whole subject of Parker, three nights
with a stranger isn’t the end of the world. “Fine. I’ll go.”
     
    Parker
    “I dreamed last night, right?” Miles asks.
This is the hundredth time he’s asked me this and each time my
answer hasn’t changed.
    “Nope. It really happened,” I repeat. Either
he’s trying to make me feel bad for causing him to attend this date
night thing or he wants to keep reminding me that Allie turned me
down. I’m hoping for the former, but knowing my brother, it’s the
latter.
    “I can’t believe you. I seriously can’t
believe you. I’m too old for this shit,” he grumbles waving his
hands around. A few of the flyers he was holding fall loose and
blow away in the wind.
    “Hey, stop littering and losing all her
flyers!” I say, grabbing one stack from him.
    He rolls his eyes. “All you had to do was
stop by the bar, any random bar, and ask any random girl out. But
no, you think you actually stand a chance with this one,” Miles
shakes his head. “You’ve lost your mind, Parker, and I can’t help
you. Now we’re stuck in this mess.”
    “I told you. There’s something about her.
Something more than a ‘hot piece of ass,’ as you call it these
days.” I stare him down. “Which by the way, you need to stop
calling her that. Her name is Allie.”
    “If I didn’t know you, I’d think you’re the
oldest and more mature of the two of us.”
    “More mature, yes, I am.”
    “Whatever, dude. It’s still stupid. Even if
she does eventually say yes to you, it’ll be too late to get out of
this dark dating thing and you’ll be semi-dating whoever they pair
you up with for this New Year’s event. Then, you’ll be dating two
women at once, and I’m guessing Allie isn’t the kind of woman to
just go with it.”
    Shit. He’s right.
    Miles clears the snow off in a small circle
of a car nearby and places a flyer under the windshield wiper.
Rubbing his hands together, he blows on them, and then looks back
at me. “By the surprised look on your face, I’d say you didn’t
consider that part. Now, you’re screwed. You should have just asked
a random girl out. At least she wouldn’t have you tied down for
three nights in a row. That would have been much easier to
cancel.”
    “We can lie to Sara and tell her I found a
date.” See? Piece of cake. Easy fix.
    “Too late—she called me last night, and I
already told her. Plus, what makes you think Allie is going to ever
actually consider going out with you?”
    Shit. I just can’t win on this one. “Why did
you tell her?”
    “Oh, probably because you were avoiding