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anyway.”
    “So did you?”
    “What?”
    “Tell?”
    “No.”  She shook her head. 
“I’ve never told anybody.”  She paused, and then added, “Except for you.”
    A warm sensation flooded my chest and my
laughter stopped.  “Why?”
    “It’s embarrassing!”
    “No, I meant why me?”
    One side of her mouth tilted up in a
small half smile and she shrugged one shoulder.  “Why not?”
    The cashier from earlier brought out our
turkey sandwiches and we ate mostly in silence.  I couldn’t believe she’d
told me her secret.  Yeah, it wasn’t a big deal or anything, but
still.  I knew something about her no one else did.  Save Peter, of
course.
    After we finished our sandwiches I got
another coffee to go, and I drove us home.  Right as she was unlocking her
door I got up the nerve to ask her what I’d been trying to ask her at the
coffee shop, before the conversation veered.
    “You said you didn’t have any plans for
Monday,” I began.
    “Nope.  Just me and my cats and the
dog.  And lots of television.  Possibly cake.”
    “My friends and I were planning this
barbeque thing at my friend Shannon’s house.  You’re welcome to join us,
if you want.”
    “They wouldn’t mind?”
    “No.  I think they’d really like
you.”
    She bit her lip as one corner turned up
in a smile and looked down at her welcome mat.  “Okay.  Sounds fun.”
    She said yes.  She said yes.
    “Great.  I’ll meet you out here
around noon, okay?”
    She nodded, and went back to unlocking
her door.
    I waited until I was inside my apartment
to express my excitement.  I hoped she didn’t hear me as I jumped up and
down and whooped quietly in my kitchen.
     
    Sunday crawled by.  Monday morning I
woke up with a huge smile on my face.  I was going to introduce her to my
friends.  This went against every rule I had set myself after the Becca
fiasco, and I couldn’t have cared less. 
    It was already around ten o’clock in the
morning, so I set the coffee to brewing and took a quick shower.  When I
walked back to the kitchen my cell phone was buzzing on the counter.  I
checked the screen and my stomach turned.  Call it a twin thing, but I had
a feeling I was not going to like that call.
    “Hello?” I said, trying to keep the edge
out of my voice.
    “Kieran.”  Kiera’s voice was a
hoarse whisper.  She sounded like she’d been crying for hours. 
    “Are you okay?”  I asked.  When
she didn’t answer right away, I knew something awful had gone down. 
“Kiera,” I said, no longer able to keep the sharpness out of my voice.
    I heard her inhale a shaky breath. 
“Yeah, I’m fine.”
    “And Skylar?”
    “He’s fine, too.  Can you come get
me?”
    “Yes, where are you?  Are you still
in New York?”  I’d be on a plane in the next second if it were possible.
    “Yes, but we’re about to board a plane.”
    I didn’t want to ask, but I had to
know.  “Where’s Rob?”
    “He’s with Kiley.”
    I blanched.  “Kiley?”
    “Yes.”
    Kiley.  I’d known her forever. 
She had been my sister’s best friend since grade school, and the drummer in
Rob’s band since senior year of high school.  As much as I hated Rob, I
had expected this from him.  But I couldn’t put into words what I felt for
Kiley at that moment.  I’d thought she was better.  Kiera had trusted
her.  I had, too.   
    “Okay.  Listen, just get on the
plane, and when you land, I’ll be there.”
    “Thanks.  I’ll see you soon.” 
    “Kiera, you deserve better than this.”
    “Maybe.”
    “Don’t do that, Kiera.”
    “I’ve got to go.”
    “Okay.  I’ll be there.”
    “I know.”
    I ended the call and set my phone on the
counter, my lips pressed in a thin line.  I breathed in deeply through my
nose and sighed.  I hated that my sister was hurt, but I couldn’t think
about that too much or I really would hop a plane and go find Rob.  Her
best friend, of all people.  I swallowed.  I was going to