A straight answer

"Are we there yet?"

It probably hadn't even been half an hour, you were still in the mountains, and Amy was already bored of the drive back to campus.

"It's been like thirty minutes," you answered. "Give it at least another five and then maybe we'll have arrived."

"Sorry, just getting some **** on you," she retorted.

You chuckled as you remembered the times you had gone on band competitions, and jokingly asked her if you were "there yet", usually right after you passed the first stop sign or made the first turn.

Save for the radio, most of the drive back to Georgia was relatively silent. Not entirely, occasionally one of you would make a remark about something random on the road or whatever popped into your head, but you were bracing yourself for the flurry of events that would likely happen when you got back to campus. As for Amy, she was likely sad that you and her weren't able to stay in the same house for longer.

"Hey, so y'know how I asked you about Summer this morning?" Amy suddenly asked while you were in the swampy lowlands, nearing campus.

This wasn't exactly the conversation you wanted to have in a car, but you relented that you did eventually need to have it with her. You couldn't exactly keep sneaking around behind her back, and Summer was the perfect catalyst. Heck, the fact that she was even mentioning Summer was a green light, or at least a yellow light.

"Yeah?" you answered, treading cautiously.

"And how I told you I didn't necessarily want you to start chasing around Summer?" she continued.

"Yeah?" you repeated.

"Well...there's a reason I put the word 'necessarily' in there," she finished, before taking a deep breath. It sounded like she wanted to say something more, but didn't exactly know how to phrase it.

"Are...you sure?" you asked in an open-ended manner, making sure you didn't jump to conclusions.

"I mean...I just...I know it's wrong, but I can't get the idea of Summer out of my head," she finally admitted. "Like, not just her as a person, but her in a relationship. With you."

Holy fuck, it was finally out in the open. You had seen it on the AMA with that little trial of A Helping Hand, but hearing her say it out lout was entirely different.

"Not that I want you to cheat on me," Amy hurriedly added. "Nor do I want to lose what we have. It's just that...I've seen the way she perceives you. It's...oddly similar to the way I perceived you beforehand. I mean, I had such a massive crush on you in high school, like you have no idea. Ordinarily, I probably would've told her to stop going after my man, but just something about her, it just...I want her to feel the same thing that I do. Because I know that you'd love her with as much adoration, affection, admiration, and everything else starting with the other 25 letters that you love me with."

Wow, that was heavy. You needed a second to unpack this. So...she wants you to have a relationship with Summer too? That was something you knew, but her reasoning for it wasn't.

"I...wow, Amy, that was not something I expected to hear today," you started.

She followed up with "Also, if you didn't do something like that, then your app is just wasted potential. That's not my main reason for it, but, y'know, I knew you were gonna come up with some sort of way to refute that claim. So let me just say this; I want you to go after Summer. I want Summer to be a girlfriend of yours, maybe even more if it comes to that. Just, whenever you do finally woo her, make sure you still have time for me."