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She let him sit next to her at all the school events.

She was his first kiss.

And Sebastian thought she was his.

Until the night she pulled me aside.

“I like you.”

I remember staring at her.

“What?”

She smiled.

“I said, I like you.”

“I don’t understand.”

“That’s because you never understand when someone likes you.”

I hadn’t known what to say.

I’d barely spoken to her.

Ever.

Sebastian had.

He’d made her laugh.

He’d been everything I wasn’t.

And still, she’d chosen me.

I didn’t want to hurt him.

And still, when she leaned in to kiss me, I didn’t resist.

By the time I caught my bearings, the damage was already done and people had already seen it.

I remember pushing her aside gently, and telling her to never touch me again.

But, that didn’t matter.

My brothers heart was already shattered.

That’s when he turned to his playboy ways, and didn’t care who and what he did.

* * *

I snapped back into reality.

“So, what? This payback for what happened in the past?”

He shrugged.

“Maybe. Maybe not. I just know I saw a chance and I took it.”