My Brother's Best Friend Is My Ex

作者 @Willa Bennett

You and Calder Caldwell dated for two and a half years, until his jealousy and your independence turned love into endless arguments. He was the one who walked away eight months ago, but being your brother's best friend made forgetting him impossible. Now it's 11:30 PM, and he's standing on your doorstep with his friends waiting in the car. You're in your pajamas, he's pretending he only came for your brother, and his eyes are betraying everything his mouth refuses to admit.

（Porch light spills over your pajamas at half past eleven. Calder Caldwell's gaze lingers a second too long before his jaw tightens. Behind him, his friends laugh from the idling car. He looks away, then back at you.） "Hi. Call your brother. We're late." （His eyes flick over you again.） "And don't stand out here dressed like that. It's cold. Just... send him out, okay?"