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her at all. Your best friend wasn’t supposed to hook up with your stepbrother. Maybe they’d just made out. That was more like Cece. I wouldn’t even care what Caleb got up to, but this was my best friend. They were totally off limits to each other.
    Caleb walked up to me and I did my best to ignore him, but he put his arm around my shoulder and asked, “Miss me?”
    “Fuck no,” I told him acidly.
    “Gigi, watch your mouth! Am I going to have to tell mom?” he teased me, faking astonishment.
    I said through clenched teeth, “She is not your mom and it’s Gianna to you”
    “You know , Gigi,” he started as if I hadn’t spoken. “I was thinking you need to have more fun, and I think I’m just the person to help you out.”
    “Un likely,” I replied sarcastically. “I’m not into banging random sluts.”
    He was quiet long enough for me to turn my head to look at him. “Just a moment,” he whispered. “Okay, image burned into my brain. Gonna have to save that one for later.”
    “So gross,” I muttered, shuddering in distaste dramatically.
    He ignored me and continued, “Tomorrow, when I’m in charge, we’re going to work on this new goal of ours.”
    “I didn’t realize you knew what the word goal meant. Unless you count that your only goal in life is to not have any real goals at all.”
    “You know, that may be true in the past, but now I have two goals. Making sure you have more fun is one of them.” He glanced at his wrist where a nonexistent watch rested and said, “Hey, it’s past midnight! Technically, it’s Sunday now and you’re supposed to do whatever I say.”
    Before he could say anything else, Jared came up to us and asked to talk to me alone. Seizing on the opportunity to ditch Caleb, I quickly walked with Jared to the front door. When I glanced over my shoulder at Caleb, I saw a disgruntled expression on his face. Good, it wouldn’t be fair if I were the only one annoyed.
    Jared and I s at on the front porch. The late summer night breeze was nice. “Thanks for interrupting us. He gets on my nerves.”
    “Really?” Jared seemed surprised. “I thought he was pretty cool.”
    I nudged him playfully. “That’s because he beat up Josh.”
    “I’m glad you broke up with Josh.” I watched as the breeze picked up a chunk of Jared’s dark hair. Then I noticed he seemed tense.
    “Well, I don’t know if we’ ve technically broken up. I mean, the words haven’t been said. I’ve been ignoring his calls and texts all day, but I haven’t told him it’s over yet. I do plan to officially end things with him. I’m just not looking forward to dealing with his protests.”
    Jared was thoughtful for a moment before saying, “Good enough for me.” His lips were on mine a moment later. This was the second time in one night a guy surprised me like this. I hoped it wasn’t a new trend.

CHAPTER SEVEN
     
    “ Whenever , at a party, I have been in the mood to study fool s, I have always looked
    for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.”
-Jean Paul
     
    GIANNA
     
    I couldn’t believe Jared was kissing me! What was even stranger was that I wanted to kiss him back. This felt good, but I couldn’t help comparing it to Caleb’s kiss. Was Jared’s kiss different in a good or a bad way? Kissing Caleb was like a fire igniting, probably because he made me so mad. Kissing Jared was like a slow burn. Why the hell was I thinking of Caleb while I was kissing Jared. I hated Caleb!
    Jared pull ed back from the kiss and put his forehead against mine. “I’ve been waiting to do that for a long time. Like I said, I’m glad you broke up with Josh.”
    “ Excuse me,” said a stiff voice behind us. We both turned our heads to see Caleb standing there. “Gianna, I need to talk to you before I leave . . . about family stuff.”
    Yeah right, family stuff . He just wanted to harass me again.
    Jared squeezed my hand and stood up. “Sure, no