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have Helen too if you just let her in, a nagging voice sounded in my head but I quickly pushed it away. Being close to Helen had not been an option, and neither was it one now. The only reason I had agreed to attending this party was because I never could say no to her and some part of me actually missed our friendship. Our break up was through no fault of hers, it was all me and my secrets. Secrets that were more important to me than our friendship of thirteen years. Yeah, some friend I was.
    Adam drove me to the Masons’ place in silence, giving me time to really drown in my regrets and memories. When he finally nudged me, I tried to plead with him to rescue me but he wouldn’t have any of it. Traitor! I sighed as I walked to the guard, his exclamation of surprise taking me by surprise. He still remembered me, which made me feel even guiltier for staying away. Helen had been like a sister to me, with many sleepovers between both our parents’ homes. And as I dragged my sandal-clad feet inside, every wonderful memory we ever had flooded back.
    Maybe we could have our friendship back without complicating things? Maybe I could still keep my life hidden from her? We could make it work, couldn’t we? I missed her, missed us, and every fun thing we did together. I should have known when she started getting serious with her fiancé, and shared in her joy when he proposed. All the things that best friends go through together, I should have been there for the last four years. But I knew I couldn’t, and I shouldn’t even be here.
    I turned to go when a voice called out my name. And not just any voice; the voice that haunted my dreams every night. The voice I slept to every night as I played my prom tape over and over again. The same voice that still made my mouth dry and goose bumps appear all over my skin. Town hero, famous football player and the first boy I ever had a crush on. Except he wasn’t a boy anymore, and if I turned around my eyes would confirm that and my heart would shatter all over again.
    I knew coming here was a terrible mistake!

Four. -Jonathan
     
    My eyes were probably deceiving me, and when I called out, I was only doing so to confirm. The woman who looked like she wanted to do nothing but run away, couldn’t be my Katie. She was just that, a woman, and I had been expecting a girl. The beautiful girl I had made fun of after her very first kiss. The same skinny girl whose thin frame I had made my personal playing field for one night and the same girl who had shyly confessed she had liked me since forever since I took her for her prom.
    “Katie?” I asked, licking my suddenly dry lips nervously.
    It felt odd to call her that now, very strange. She had been Katie in ponytails when I walked them home after kindergarten, her and my sister. She had been Katie when they came over to my after school job at an ice-cream shop, and I spoiled them with dessert before dinner. She had been Katie when I accidentally walked in on her trying on her trainer bra, and she wouldn’t leave the room for hours afterward. But she was definitely not Katie now, and my entire body agreed. That red dress was killer on her, and she made the dress look good!
    “Hi Jonathan, I was just-”
    “It looked like you were running away, and the party hasn’t even begun yet.”
    “I wasn’t running away,” she lied.
    I laughed and held out my arm, making her give me a quizzical look. I shook my head and placed my hand on her lower back to steer her back towards the door. Honestly, I just did that so that I could touch her and prove something to myself. The only thing I proved was that I was not over her and the spark between us was just as strong as ever. Even better now with those curves, damn, this woman wanted to kill me!
    “You are early,” I said as she sat down and I began making some coffee for her.
    “I am?”
    I chuckled to myself as I made her coffee just like she liked it, one sugar and lots of milk, glad I still