He Doesn't Love Me Back

Amaya

“What’s up?” I asked softly, and he turned to me and cocked his head.

“I was just thinking,” he began, and for a split second, I had this crazy thought that he was going to suggest we make things serious, that today had convinced him as much as it had convinced me that things needed to be more secure between us once and for all. I shoved those thoughts to the back of my mind. Of course, he wasn’t going to say anything like that. He would have come out with that already if he was going to. He wasn’t going to start with that shit now, just because I wanted him too.

“Oh, yeah?”

“We should invite Jolene up here for a day out,” he continued, and my heart twisted in my chest.

“You’re serious?” I raised my eyebrows at him.

“No, I just came in here to tease you about it,” he shot back, grinning. I fell silent for a moment. This was a lot, even for him. Did he have any idea how big a deal this was to me? No guy I had ever dated had suggested involving Jolene more in our lives. In fact, m