XAVIER'S POVMy collar feels two sizes too small, and I've checked it three times already, certain it's shrunk in the last ten minutes from nothing but the heat building under my jacket."Stop touching it you fool," Noah mutters beside me with a wide grin. My best man, adjusting his own cufflinks. "You look like you're trying to strangle yourself before she even gets here.""I'm fine man.""But you've scanned the crowd six times in the last two freaking minutes."I make myself stop.‘Enough!’ I say, almost like a whisper though. The truth is I already know what I'm looking for, and she isn't there. Some small, humiliating part of me kept scanning the room anyway, like the eighth pass might rearrange the seating chart in my favor… Like reality owes me a rewrite.“Jesus christ…get a grip.” Selene didn't come…I don't know why I expected otherwise. What did I think was going to happen? that she'd walk in wearing something dark and devastating just to prove she could sit through the wrec
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