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- Authors: Dakota Rebel
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- Genre: Romantic Comedy
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~Cyrus Macnair~
“Hey, I can’t work tonight,” I reminded my brother Kyle as I reviewed
the new schedule he posted.
“Oh, does Abigail have another date?” he teased, grabbing the
clipboard from my hand and scribbling my name off the watch shift.
“It’s not a date,” I growled. “It’s two people eating food at the same
table. And no. She will be having dinner with me.”
“Why don’t you just ask her to marry you already?” Kyle asked, his
tone exasperated.
“That wasn’t the deal,” I told my brother for the twentieth time in a
week.
It was a little ridiculous, that was true. But Abigail and I had been
friends for ten years, since we met in homeroom our freshman year of high
school. We’d been young and dumb and completely ignorant of how the
world worked back then.
I still remember the night we made our pact like it was yesterday. We
were eating Red Vines and playing Super Mario in my basement. She was
wearing pale blue jean shorts and a tank top, one of the licorice strips hanging
out of her mouth and her arms were bouncing up every time she tried to make
Luigi jump over a Goomba.
Out of nowhere, she turned to me and said the words that would
forever change the course of my life.
“If we aren’t married to anyone by time we’re twenty-five, we should
get married.”
In that instant, my entire world view shifted. I’d been in love with her
since the first moment I saw her, but I’d believed with all my heart that I’d
been permanently relegated to friend zone status.
This information was intriguing. I knew I could wait for her forever, so
that was never going to be an issue. But how I was going to keep her single
was something I needed to consider carefully.
I knew I couldn’t be too overt. I couldn’t bad mouth men to her face.
Couldn’t keep her locked away somewhere. And I also didn’t want to appear
overeager to carry out the plan.
Deception wasn’t exactly my strong suit, but for Abigail I could do
anything.
And so the games were on for me. In school, it was easier. I walked to
her classes, carried her books, waited for her after school. As long as I was
constantly in her orbit, the other boys would just assume she was mine. So,
they all stayed away.
After high school, it was harder. She went to the local community
college to major in communications, but I went straight to work for my
family’s security firm. I couldn’t be with her constantly anymore, and it
gutted me.
Fortunately, we remained close friends and she would always tell me
when someone asked her out. Then, as if I were her confidant girlfriend,
she’d give me every minute detail of the plans. And I always ensured that she
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