Everything to Lose

<p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>You've heard the story about the best friends since childhood the boy and girl who secretly love each other but are too scared to admit it right?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Well have you heard the one where the twin brother of the boy steps in and kisses the girl to make his brother jealous?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>No?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Then let me enlighten you.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Wyatt Gibson has been my best friend since we were in diapers and I've loved him since we were ten.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>But when Wyatt left for college and I stayed back in our hometown of Newberry Springs Texas I gave up on the idea of us ever ending up together even though he kissed me the night before he left.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Flashforward eight years and now I'm helping him run his business as I dance around the fact that I'm hopelessly in love with him and probably always will be.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>But giving in to those feelings means risking everything dear to me in my life-his family which is very much my own and a lifelong friendship that I cherish more than wondering what it would be like to be his in every way.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Life was normal until Wyatt's twin brother Walker decided he was tired of us tiptoeing around each other and devised a plan to make Wyatt admit his feelings as well.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>So he kissed me.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>And even though I knew it would hurt Wyatt it felt good to play with fire-to go against the safe boundaries that I've lived my life within out of fear of everything changing.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>But everything did change.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Everything became hazy and dangerous all at once.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>And suddenly I went from having everything...to having everything to lose.</span></p>