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to move in with some random person.”
    “I know, I know. Mom pulled me aside at brunch this morning and suggested the same thing.”
    “Em,” Andrew said in a soft voice. “You don’t have to move in with me now if it’s going to be a hassle, but if your mom’s right, I would love you to live with me all of senior year.”
    My head snapped up to look at him. “You think I should? For the last few months you told me that we’d figure it out when school was done. You said there was no sense in upsetting my dad. What changed your mind?
    He shrugged his shoulders, but his eyes never left mine. “What you just said about your conversation with your mom, because she said the same thing to me this morning.”
    “Maybe I will try talking to my dad again.”
    Andrew wrapped his arm around me and squeezed. “That’s my girl.”
    “Now I’m excited.”
    “Why?” Andrew’s brow furrowed.
    “I thought we wouldn’t live together until we got married.”
    He wiggled his eyebrows and I smiled as he said, “I like this plan better.”
    “Here’s another question . . . where will we live?”
    “Umm . . . here?”
    “I thought we’d find a place of our own.”
    “We could, but since we haven’t seen anything we’ve liked, I think this is the next best option.”
    “Well, you live with Nick. I thought the soonest we might actually live together would be after graduation, not before. So I never really thought of the where aspect and worried that much about the apartments we did look at.”
    “So you don’t want to move in with me?” Even though he was trying to hide it, I could see the hurt in his eyes.
    “No, that’s not what I’m saying. I want to move in with you, but what about Nick?”
    “Nick and I already talked about it. If you don’t mind him staying, we can do what Caleb, Angie, and Josh do. If not, he agreed to find another place to live.”
    The last thing I wanted was for Nick to be forced to take me on as a roommate. Well, at least until the wedding—then he was on his own.
    I turned to Nick. “Is that true?”
    He looked at me, excitement in his eyes. “Absolutely. You guys are practically living together already, but if you want me to go, I will. There are always places to stay.” He gave me a quick wink that let me know there would be no hard feelings either way.
    “And if I said I didn’t want you to leave, would you mind living with the two of us?”
    “No, Em, I wouldn’t mind at all—especially since you can keep this asshole in line and off my back.” He laughed, gesturing toward Andrew with a flip of his middle finger.
    “No, I don’t want you to leave,” I said to Nick, and then turned my attention back to Andrew. “And, yes, I would love to move in with you.”
    Andrew pulled me closer to him and whispered, “Think of all the fun we can have when you’re in my bed every night.”
    Other girls might have giggled at that statement, but for me it just sent heat racing along my nerves, making me want to take Andrew back to what was now our room and have my way with him.
    “And now we’ll be able to spend our nights together, even when I have to be at the office all day for my internship.”
    There was the relief. My chest felt a little lighter. I didn’t want Nick to feel like we were kicking him out of the apartment because that definitely was not the case.
    But all of this was dependent upon my conversation with my dad. Even though I was an adult, I still felt like I owed him since he was paying for school. Either way, I was going to try and talk to him later.
    From there on out, the night was pretty calm. We finished eating and ended up watching Transformers —the boys’ pick, not mine. I’d never tell them that Angie and I actually loved that movie. It didn’t matter that the lead guy wasn’t hot, the soldier in charge most definitely was.
    Morgan and Nick didn’t say a whole lot throughout the night. Instead, they kind of kept to themselves, giving each other