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When two ex-best friends decide to hold a competition for the new girl’s heart, they don’t expect to fall for each other instead.

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“She decides,” I say tersely.

Caleb blinks at me, absorbing this. “What?”

“We both want to be friends with her, right?”

“I . . . Yes.” He’s looking more suspicious by the moment.

“So let’s do that,” I suggest, breaking my gaze away from his face before he starts griping and groaning. “We hang out with her separately and see if she develops feelings. If she does . . . maybe whoever she kisses first gets to ask her out.”

I can almost feel the ick radiating off Caleb. I don’t like the way the words taste, but how else do we make this fair?

“But that’s just . . .” Caleb makes several disgruntled noises. “That’s wrong. Turning someone’s feelings into a game. What will you do if she’s straight? Dump her as a friend?”

I purse my lips. Does he really think I’m that big of an asshole? Maybe he notices my face darken, because he scratches his pale neck and mutters, “It’s been four years. How do I know you’re the same person?”

Whatever. “We both think she’s cute, and we want to get to know her,” I say sharply. “Doing it like this is the fairest way of figuring out if she’d be interested in one of us.”

Caleb paces in front of his car, running his fingers along his slender lips, thinking a little too hard, like always. After several tedious seconds, resolution shapes his features. “If it’s the only way I’ll stand a chance, fine,” he says irritably. “Whoever Juliet kisses first, on the lips, can ask her out. And she has to initiate it.”

He holds his hand out to make it official. His total seriousness makes my frustration waver, replacing it