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Angelina had to wait until Aria was asleep to strike. Eddie was reading a book on the couch downstairs and she parked herself on his lap rather abruptly, wrapping her arms around his neck.“Angel, what—”She cut him off by kissing him with all the desperation in her heart. If he needed her to try harder, she would try harder! She would do anything not to be banished when she had nowhere else to go.It was ironic, really. In the beginning she hadn’t wanted him to take responsibility at all and now she was trying her hardest to get him to stick to it. She had screwed up by saying the worst possible thing to him when he already felt like she didn’t care about him at all and now she was paying the price for it.She did care about him much more than she originally thought—thinking about him so much when she was locked in that birdcage proved it—but she wasn’t on the same level that he was toward her yet. That was the problem. He wanted more than she could give right now.Eddie could go rig
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Lily groaned. She really didn’t want to think about Mark right now.“Why does nobody believe me when I say we’re not a thing? He’s way too formal and doesn’t care about anything. He can flip his personality like a switch and you know I hate people like that the most.“I had never even seen him outside of a work setting until my twin’s birthday. He works with her fiancé so I guess that’s why he got invited but it was so horribly awkward because we sort of got into a fight the last time I saw him before that.”Randi laughed. “I can see why. You really don’t hold back when you don’t like people.”“It’s not that I don’t like him; he doesn’t like me! Or he didn’t first. I don’t even know anymore,” Lily said with a dramatic sigh. “Can we drop this please? It’s not like I’m ever going to see him again.”“Oh really? Because it seems like you keep bumping into him whether you like it or not.”That was actually true. Especially since she originally knew him long before she knew anyone else asso
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Everyone was curious about Angel but at the very least they didn’t bombard her with questions about how she and Lily met and their rather unique family situation. It was all basic get-to-know-you stuff like whether or not she was in school and what her hobbies were.When she told them Randi’s friend Evan laughed. “So basically you’re the less manly version of Lily. Are you seeing anyone? Because if not I would totally ask you out.”Lily scowled at him. “I am not manly! You’re just a wimp.”Everyone laughed at that but Angel, who fiddled with her hair a bit awkwardly. “Actually, I’m engaged.”“No way, for real?! Where’s your ring then?”“…I accidentally forgot it at home as I scrambled to get out the door.”Lily was willing to bet that ring didn’t actually exist. She hadn’t seen any traces of a ring in Angel’s room all the times she had been there. It was one of the things she had noticed was weird about her and Eddie’s supposed relationship.“Oh, I see. So when’s the big day?” Randi a
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Lily knew this was the only bowling alley in Monterey but come on! What were the odds that Mark would be here at the exact same time that they were? Had he noticed they were here and simply felt too awkward to approach or was she still safe?The next time Luke was up Randi was full of questions again, being nosy as always. That shared characteristic was probably a large part of why she and Lily normally got along so well but right now having it aimed at her was less than pleasant.“So why do you think Mark likes her?”Angel shrugged. “I’m not the only one. Eddie thinks so too. But we were talking about her the other day and he had this fond smile on his face and said ‘she left quite an impression’ when they knew each other in high school.”Lily was astounded. That guy was capable of smiling fondly? All of the smiles she had seen from him were totally businesslike! More to the point, what exactly did she do in high school that made him remember her in such detail all these years later?
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Mark hadn’t expected to see Lily at the bowling alley tonight but he was even more surprised to see Angelina. Hadn’t she been glued to Edward’s side lately? He supposed she needed to be around people period and he happened to be available most frequently but still.He didn’t know how much she had said about her situation to Lily’s friends so he gave minimal detail when one of them asked how he knew the twins. He noticed that Luke referred to her as Angel so she must have introduced herself that way to be more inconspicuous.She certainly didn’t look like Miss California right now—she looked like a slightly less casual version of Lily since she was in a blouse and her twin was in a t-shirt—but someone might recognize her name if they were familiar with pageants at all. She had always been on the cautious side when it came to her identity considering Mark knew her for years and hadn’t been aware of it until recently.“I work with Angel’s fiancé but I also knew Lily in high school,” he e
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Lily looked at Mark wide-eyed, unable to hold back her excitement. “No way! Can you do a heelflip 720?”He couldn’t help but laugh at her enthusiasm. “Yeah. I could show you sometime if you want.”He immediately wished he could take that back. She wouldn’t want to spend time with him that she didn’t absolutely have to. She obviously hadn’t even wanted him to come over when her friend offered for him to play a game with them.To his surprise her enthusiasm didn’t lessen in the slightest. “Really? No one has ever been able to show me that move! Can you teach it to me? Can you?”“I can try.”Mark was in a state of absolute disbelief by this point but he wasn’t about to say no. This might be the one chance he had of getting her bad impression of him to change. He would rest a lot easier knowing Lily Bennett didn’t hate him and he wasn’t entirely sure why.“Awesome, thanks!” she replied with a bright smile.He was inexplicably affected by it because she had never once smiled at him like th
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Angelina would have to get over her awkwardness about that incident eventually. They did still live in the same house and she wasn’t able to sleep properly without Eddie because of her nightmares.Wouldn’t it be better to try and do things normal couples did? That might help her get over her hang-ups about the whole thing sooner. Maybe she should ask him about getting her a ring since she had been thinking about it anyway.When she arrived back at the house he was sitting in the living room reading a book. He looked up when he saw her with a tiny smile on his face. “Did you have fun?”“Yeah. Thanks for putting Aria to bed for me,” Angelina said trying to maintain her composure as much as possible. The very sight of him was bringing back humiliating memories of the night before.“No problem. What did you guys end up doing? All you said was that you were going to hang out with Lily’s friends.”“We went bowling and get this—Mark was there two lanes over from us! He ended up joining us fo
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Angelina stood there awkwardly rubbing her arm in a self-soothing gesture. Eddie said they could get her a ring but didn’t seem particularly happy about it. Was he still upset with her?She wasn’t sure what she could do to make him feel better. She felt horribly guilty about everything that happened when they were in San Diego and then yesterday when she mortified herself by coming onto him.She didn’t want him to be upset though, especially since he had seemed so happy before that mess happened. To be that affected he truly did love her. And she wasn’t able to reciprocate properly even though she cared about him more than anyone aside from Aria.Her head was too much of a mess to even sort through any potential feelings. She needed time to figure things out. The real question was how much.Leaving Eddie hanging forever wouldn’t be fair. He had laid his feelings for her bare and what had she done with them? Said something nasty that got him feeling all insecure again after things were
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