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next door and you skipped that piece of information? Do you know how it felt to see him and—”
    Beep!
    Damn it! She was cut off again. Sidney paced around the house she hadn’t had it in her to come back to for five years. Too many memories of the Sidney she wanted to leave behind. She’d gone to LA to be a new Sidney. A better one. And there were periods of time when she loved it.
    But now, after everything with Steve and her career, all she’d wanted was to come home and find a way to get her life together. She’d needed a break from the drama and came home to find even more.
    The house looked exactly as it always had: the same floral couches, the same pictures on the walls of Sidney growing up. Pictures of Rowan and Kade, too.
    And what the hell was going on with those two? They had plans tonight. The last time she talked to Rowan had been a few months ago and she hadn’t mentioned anything about Kade then. Was this a new thing?
    Holy shit. Were they dating ?
    A strange pain pierced her chest. She shouldn’t care. She didn’t know if she did, but even the thought felt foreign. As though she were breaking some kind of rule just by considering it. Kade had dated a lot of girls, but never either of them. They’d all just been friends and nothing more. Though…that wasn’t true, was it? She just had a hard time admitting it, even to herself.
    The pain in her chest echoed out through the rest of her. No, it hadn’t always been like that. There had been graduation. But it never would have worked, because they wanted different things. His life was here, and he would have resented her forever if she took him away from it.
    “Stop thinking about this!” she said into Aunt Mae’s empty house. It would have helped things if Kade hadn’t all of a sudden turned smoking hot. His hair was longer than he used to keep it. Still that same deep, chestnut brown, but it now curled slightly by his ears. There was a light dusting of hair on his chest that she didn’t remember.
    And the muscles. Those hadn’t hurt, either. He must work outside with his shirt off a lot with all that sun-kissed skin, taut over corded muscles. Oh, and that six-pack.
    Sidney shivered.
    But then there were those things that were the same. The little scar on his forehead from the time he wrecked while giving her a ride on his bicycle. His dark eyes—so dark you could hardly see his pupils—but what really did it for those eyes were his lashes. Thick, sooty lashes that were impossible to ignore.
    Why was she still thinking about Kade Mitchell? She needed to clear her head. Instead of daydreaming about her old best friend who, oh, just so happened to hate her, she needed to figure out what she could do with her life that would finally be worthy of something. How to get things taken care of when she went back to LA. Because she definitely wasn’t staying here.

    The gears ground in Aunt Mae’s old truck when Sidney tried to put it into gear. She hated stick shifts. Why would anyone choose to drive one when they had the option of just putting something into drive and going? It never made much sense to her. She stalled the stupid thing almost every time she tried to go.
    Bumping along the road, she headed toward Lucky’s, where Rowan had asked to meet her. Rowan called first thing that morning going crazy, because she hadn’t known Sidney came back to town. Kade must have told her on their date last night.
    Another pinch squeezed her chest, but Sidney ignored it.
    As she tried to pull away from the stop sign, she stalled the truck again. Stupid stick shift. Stupid Kade Mitchell.
    Why was he so mad at her? Maybe because you kissed him and then snuck out of town without telling him? Okay, better question, one that didn’t really involve her: When did he start dating Rowan?
    And why did she care?
    Well, she didn’t really care. She was just curious about their lives. And because you may have walked out on Kade, but you still think of him as