"I think I finally get it."

"Get what?" There was something about the look in his eyes, the confidence, the surety, that had me swallowing hard.

"You." And as he smiled, it was almost smug. "I get you, Oz. You're a little, Aren't you?"

If only I had known at the time just how much those few little words were going to change my life.

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It was funny how the more things changed, the more they stayed the same.

Compared to the boy I had been at the start of summer, the one who refused to leave the house unless it was either on fire, or my mother's firm hand was shoving me out of it, I had come a long way. Now, I was out all the time. Now, I was out more often than I was home. I had a social life — did Blake count as being my social life? Because if not, then I just had a life instead of living vicariously through my Sims.

But at the same time, take away that fleeting sense of confidence that Blake had installed in me, and I was still just the same as I always was.

The coward of all cowards, more like.

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