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"I wish you all the best, Benjamin De Backer."
They aren't the same words, but I know exactly what he means.
"I love you too."

"I... I want to kiss you," he tells me. "Can I do that?"
"Yeah," I whisper.
He leans in, and well, it's sort of terrible. Our lips meet, but we move too fast and bump noses, and Nathan catches my bottom lip. It's rushed and wet, and really messy. But the good kind of messy. There are no fireworks. Time doesn't stop. And I don't mind; I don't think he does either.

"I really like you, Ben. I really, really, really like you," he finally says, and I can almost see his shoulders relax. "I'd use the other L-word, but if I'm being a hundred percent honest, it scares the absolute shit out of me." He takes a deep breath. "And I've spent months trying to figure out how I could tell you without scaring you away, or making you hate me, but yeah."