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Lennox

"Hey Joe, why are you staring at a picture of Aunt Mel?" I said, like I needed to know. Maybe I could make him admit his feelings for Aunt Mel. At least to me.
"What? I'm not staring…" he started to say.
"C'mon, you were staring at that picture and we both know it. Why, do you like Aunt…. Say what?" I said when he kinda broke down and said:
"Fine… I was staring at the picture. Are you happy, Lennox?"

Joe

I can't take it anymore, I have to tell someone, if not Mel then Lennox.
"Fine… I was staring at the picture. Are you happy, lennox?"
"Kinda, yeah. But my question is, why? Do you like her?"
"Why do you want to know, it's none of your buisn… yeah I do." Even Lennox looked shocked.
"What? Are you gonna tell aunt Mel?" was all she said.

Why is she asking the one thing I don't know? I really need to put my life in order again. I used to be the guy who knew everything, know I'm the ass who likes their boss.

"I don't know, Lennox. I've liked her for a long time now. Before I could handle it, now that option is not there anymore. Now all I think about is her. When I close my eyes I think of her, when I'm with her I just wanna hold her hand and stroke her hair and ask her how her day was. When I see her with other guys, I wanna rip their guts out and punch the walls out. But I can't, I can't do anything. She doesn't feel the same way and that's why I didn't say anything. Sure we kissed, thrice, but what does that mean? It just happened because she almost died. I hate why things have to be so complicated." I said, unloading all my crap on Lennox all that's happened in these past few weeks.

Why the hell did I tell her everything? I can't tell her I was kidding, she's never gonna believe me. What the hell did I do?

"Ok" was her reaction. And after her few seconds of shock she said "Why don't you just tell Aunt Mel everything that you just tell me?"
"Because she's gonna think I'm nuts. I'm sure she doesn't feel the same way. And then everything will just be awkward. And all this leads to what? Me getting fired."
"C'mon, you really think Aunt Mel will fire you? And you told me, you kissed thrice. That doesn't not mean nothing."
"What am I even gonna say, 'Hey boss, can I have a raise? By the way, I'm in love with you.'?"

Then lennox looked like she was about to say something, but she stopped herself.

"Maybe you should tell Aunt Mel how you feel, when she comes back home. I can drive now, so I can drive Ryder and I home a little later, so you'll have some alone time with her."
"Yeah, that sounds good. Thank you so much, Lennox."
"Sure, anytime."

And she was about to go, when she said "And if you screw this up, don't go back to dating girls shameful girls, you deserve better."

I do, but the only thing I want is Mel.

Lennox

Wow, that was intense. I know that Joe loves her, but I didn't know he loves her in such… depth. I've never seen that side of Joe before. I don't think I'm gonna tell Ryder whatever Joe told me. Joe confessed so many things that I'm pretty sure he didn't want to.

I'm so excited, in a week or so, aunt mel is gonna go home and joe's gonna tell her. They both will get married have kids and we'll be one happy family. Or they'll be one happy family and we'll be the stupid niece and nephew that gets thrown around from home to home. C'mon, lennox, that's never gonna happen. We'll be the niece and nephew who stays with the happy family. And hopefully we wont go to foster care. Focus, Lennox! None of that bad stuff is gonna happen.

And no way in hell I'm gonna tell Joe that Mel loves him too. He's just gonna be shocked (at first), and then - maybe - he might tell Aunt Mel and then both of them will do nothing about it. And what does all this lead to? Awkward silence and 'love' in the house with absolutely no solution. And that's not gonna happen if it's up to me.

And even if joe chickens out at the last minute or for some other reason he doesn't tell her, we have the trip.