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“No. Come on, I feel bad even talking about this. I can’t do that to Gus.”

“What are you trying to say?” I growl at Meg, angry that she’s making me even give this a second thought.”

“Nothing. It’s just a little fishy, though, isn’t it? He hasn’t mentioned, like a boyfriend or something back home?”

“So I’m just the American guy you’re leading on and keeping around for company so that after a few months you can go back to… Jean-Luc or Pierre (…)”

"I hate that I thought he was perfect and he thought of me as something to pass the time.”

“I don’t want to just have fun with you, Why don’t you get that?” I snatch my hand away from his. “I don’t want to be with a liar, and I don’t want to be with someone who’s in love with someone else.”

“Perfect wouldn’t have lied to you,” Meg corrects me.

“Or hurt you,” Landon adds.

“…clenches with guilt about Travis. But that wasn’t my fault, I reason. Travis kissed me without provocation. Hell, he practically jumped me. There was nothing I could do.”

“And I know I’ll never tell Jamie about it, just as I’ll never tell him Travis kissed me good-bye.”

“And what about loyalty?” I ask.

“What about it?” she fires back.

Her peachy cheeks change into a angry red, but I go on. “He asked you out and then what? A week later he cheated on you with Ellie Graves—“

“We weren’t really going out yet.”

“A technicality,” I say

“Then explain to me, oh wise one, why Micheal is such a bad guy for texting someone else, when you’ve been doing the same thing to Jamie?”

“That’s really a convenient loophole, isn’t it?”

“It’s not a loophole, it’s fact. I never said—“

“No, you never said, you’re right,” Jamie Spits. “You just took me to a place I’ve wanted to see for years and bought me a silver cross and let me kiss you like some foolish idol who has no idea that you’re hooking up with some musician.”

“Jamie, I wasn’t lying to you. That whole date all I could think about was how perfect you were, how great we were together. I didn’t think about Travis at all, and I’d seen him the night before. Doesn’t that tell you something?”

“And then I basically did to Jamie what Gus did to me . What’s wrong with me?

“Nothing’s wrong with you, Sam.”

“I lied to Jamie.”

Landon nods. “Yeah. But he should have given you another chance.”

“Yeah, maybe he could have had a bigger dose of number seven, but I could have had a bigger dose of number five myself.” (#5 is loyalty.)